RadioLab, the most intelligent and thought provoking podcast you've probably never heard of

I feel like all I've done since starting this blog is talk about the female half of the species and their impact on me, my bad experiences growing up and my issues with trust and paranoia, so I want to write a bit of a different blog that is more positive .

About two months ago my friend Megan, a current resident of Nashville in America, recommended that I listen to a podcast called RadioLab from WNYC. She said that she had been driving for six hours and was listening to one of their shows called New Normal, and it reminded her of me, so I downloaded it, listened and was instantly hooked.

Being a podcast from another country, it's not likely that a lot of people in the UK have even heard of it other than when I may have briefly mentioned it on Facebook or Twitter, but I can't recommend it highly enough.

I've listened to about 10 of their podcasts, ranging from 15/20 minutes up until 75 minutes, and each has been thought provoking and interesting. I'm slowly making my way through all of their podcasts (there are a LOT), but it is well worth it.

"New Normal" was one of the most interesting things I have ever listened to, a podcast asking "What is normal these days?" It contains three short articles about acceptance;

• What happened to a group of apes/gorillas (I can't remember which) when the alpha-male was removed.
• How a town accepted one of it's residents (Stu Rasmussen - left) becoming transgendered and then even more accepting by electing Stu as it's mayor, not to forget how that community rallied around Stu when the religious nuts came to town to protest it.
• An experiment where they try to tame foxes and the foxes evolve over a short space of time, not only in terms of "personality" but also in terms of appearance.

It was one of the most thought provoking 60-or-so minutes of my life.

I can't recommend radio lab enough and would seriously recommend that you listen to it.

http://www.radiolab.org/