{"id":6204,"date":"2011-03-15T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2011-03-16T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:37:16","slug":"lab-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6204","title":{"rendered":"Lab partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5532133158\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5215\/5532133158_5654ea7a18.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I went to a live show of the public radio show (and personal podcast favorite) Radio Lab. I don&#8217;t know that it was a <i>taping<\/i>, partly because they did a show last night too, and partly because of the way the show is edited together. Tonight, on stage at the quite nice Skirball Center downtown, it was a mixture of live talking (hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich), live performace (the frankly amazing celloist Zoe Keating), pre-recorded audio and video, and Slinkies (Slinki?) tossed on stage from the front row. I also happened to spot another public radio personality, Ira Glass, in the audience during intermission. Had I spotted Kurt &#8220;Explodo&#8221; Andersen, I would not have been at all surprised.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show was really great, all about symmetry and soul mates and mirror images and antimatter and the usual grab bag of funny, touching, and thought-provoking Radio Lab stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this on the train ride home, since the show ran a couple of hours and I won&#8217;t be home until late. Penn Station, and to a lesser extent my train, was full of inebriated hockey fans, so I can only guess an Rangers\/Islanders game ended at Madison Square Garden just as my subway back uptown was getting there. Oh well, that&#8217;s what the iPod is for (on which I re-discover, with some pleasure, that I do have a song already by Zoe Keating). And honestly, I&#8217;ve been on far worse trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I went to a live show of the public radio show (and personal podcast favorite) Radio Lab. I don&#8217;t know that it was a taping, partly because they did a show last night too, and partly because of the way the show is edited together. Tonight, on stage at the quite nice Skirball Center &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6204\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}