State of the Human

Survival (full episode)

Sometimes you have to keep your head down to stay alive.
This is a show about playing the cello in the darkest hour, and returning to the site of the fire, and keeping your head down to stay alive. This is a show about what happens when the sun goes down, and when you get lost in the mall, and when you pick up the phone because you have nowhere left to turn. This is a show about the terrible and the beautiful. This is a show about survival.
Producers: Jett Hayward, Bella Lazzareschi, Elisabeth Dee, Stephanie Niu, Cathy Wong, Dylan Cunningham, Hannah Nguyen, Jackson Roach, Melina Walling, Alec Glassford, Christy Hartman, Jake Warga, Sam Greenspan, and Jonah Willinghanz.

Survival Bonus: Archival Tape Collection

Compilation of Archival Sound on Survival
The Survival episode contains a collection of found archival sounds. These pieces of tape, on the theme of survival, have themselves survived the passage of time. Preserved fragments of another time, they remind us that human beings have always been survivors. This is a standalone collection of those fragments of tape.
 
IMAGE: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grap…ophone1901.jpg
MUSIC CREDITS:Traumerei, Robert Schumann Op 15, Cello: Daniil ShafranTinajero, Monplaisir,Unpredictable, junior85hydroscope, Gallery SixSoliloquy Somatics, MyriadarRay Ives, junior85
ARCHIVAL TAPE CREDITS:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: playing in the orchestra at Auschwitz concentration camp, Oral History Curator’s Corner, The British LibraryDuck and Cover, Archer Productions, Archive.orgJames Baldwin: Living and Growing in a White World, Pacifica Radio Archives, Archive.orgKathleen Norris: on Surviving the 1906 San Franciso Earthquake and Fire, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, UC BerkeleyHelen Brook on giving birth during the Blitz, Pioneering Women Oral History Collection, The British LibraryEmperor Penguins in Antarctica, David Attenborough, BBC Planet EarthWallace Quarterman and others singing “Jesus is a Rock”, Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston’s Voices from the Days of Slavery, Library of Congress

Survival Story 5: The Jane Collective

In an era when abortion was illegal, a group of women took matters into their own hands.
 
Featuring: Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Martha Scott, Judith Arcana
Music: Universe in the Bath, LetmeknowyouanatoleIllumination I, LetmeknowyouanatoleChoose Another Way, LetmeknowyouanatoleWeightlessness, Daniel BirchAbsolutely Sweet Marie, Bob Dylan
Archival Sound:Roe v. Wade, Oyez1973 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1/22/73), CBSThird Presidential Debate Highlights | Trump, Clinton on Abortion, ABC NewsSpeaker Ryan’s Remarks at the March for Life, Speaker Paul RyanHouse’s 20-week abortion ban heads to the Senate, Fox News

Survival Story 4: The Misinformation Effect

Chris Coan remembers being lost in the mall, but we all have our stories.
 
Featuring: Dr. James Coan, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Chris Coan
Music: (Title(s), Artist, Album. Plus links and permissions. And archival tape)bj.b (re:construction)_ remix by ono, -ono-An opener, BitbasicStealth Elk, BitbasicPattern 4 (Version 10), Cyan341Datalinks (Line remix), Posthumanc, Gallery Sixm, Gallery Sixk, Gallery SixUpward, junior85Action Discovery, Komikumay, SHOMOMOSE
Archival Sound:Rewriting History, Out in the Open, CBC RadioArchival interview with Chris Coan provided by Jim Coan
Image: www.flickr.com/photos/onasill/40…hT-21RcQoK-FVbw72

Survival Story 3: The Blue Time

A psychologist searches for the secret to survival in a town where the sun doesn’t rise for 50 days.
 
Featuring: Kari Liebowitz and Jonas Björklund
Music:Sombra, Zé TrigueirosSoft Euphoria, Lee RoseverePlaymate, Podington BearEverybody Wants Gold and a Mermaid, Tony HigginsCylinder Three, Chris ZabriskieCylinder Nine, Chris Zabriskiegaël, johnny_ripper
Image: Stephanie Niu

Survival Story 2: The Brink

What is it like to be LGBTQ+ in a Mormon community?
 
Featuring: Kimberly Anderson, Dean StonehockerProducer: Elisabeth Dee
Music:Ambient Pad, Karma-RonMelancholic Haze, FoolBoyMediaI’m Trying To Be Like Jesus, Emily BrownLove One Another, The Mormon Tabernacle ChoirDark Water, Fathomless - Ambient, Podington BearCalm Synthesizer, B, InspectorJ

Survival Story 1: Santa Rosa

After the Santa Rosa fires, Bella revisits her childhood home.
Music: As Fast As You Can Happen, junior85

Speculation (full episode)

What can we know about the future? And where do we look? We plan ahead by speculating. We can’t imagine not imagining the next hour, the next day, the next email. In this show we look at the nature of guessing, of predicting, and what that can tell us about the future. And the past.
Host: Yue Li
Producers: Chris Leboa, Cameron Tenner, Yue Li, Claudia Heymach, Noelle Chow, Sam Kargilis, Risa Cromer, Sam Greenspan
Featuring: Corrie Dekkar, Julie Parsonnet, Julie Fogarty, Jeff Lindner, Jim Blackburn, Mark Beauregard, Kyla Schuller
Story 1: Miner Threat
Meet the last Bitcoin miners of Stanford.
Producer: Sam Kargilis
Music (from Free Music Archive): Curves, Jhhhzzr
Story 2: Vanquishing Vaccines
During the 2017-2018 flu season over 60 million Americans were infected with influenza and an estimated 50,000 died. Why has there been so much sickness when a vaccine does exist? Producer Chris LeBoa investigates the process and guesswork that goes into creating the flu shot each year and what is being done to take guesswork out of future vaccines.
Producer: Chris LeBoa
Featuring: Corrie Dekkar, Julie Parsonnet, Julie Fogarty
Story 3: The Coming Storm
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Houstonians Yue and Claudia wonder how future storms can be predicted. And if they can be predicted, whose responsibility is it to protect Houston?
Producers: Yue Li, Claudia Heymach, Noelle Chow
Featuring: Jeff Lindner, Jim Blackburn
Music (from freesound.org): vision- ambient gamelan by that jeff carter, Ambient Drone Solfeggio by Headphaze, Cosmos by pointpark cinema, cyclone hurricane hugo by solostud
Story 4: My Dear Melville
Herman Melville’s “great American novel,” Moby Dick, has fascinated, entertained, bored, and horrified audiences for the past 150 years, but … is Moby Dick gay? Was Herman Melville caught up in a same-sex-love affair? Producer Cameron Tenner searches for answers and learns about exploring queerness in the past.
Producer: Cameron Tenner
Featuring: Mark Beauregard, Kyla Schuller
Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie, Gentle Chase by Podington Bear, Skeptic by Podington Bear, Vanagon by Podington Bear, Little Black Cloud by Podington Bear, Waltz for an Imaginary Piano by Johnny Ripper, Lonesome by Podington Bear, Lucky Stars by Podington Bear, In My Head by Podington Bear, Sensitive by Podington Bear, Whaling Song by Paul Clayton

Speculation: Story 4 - My Dear Melville

Herman Melville’s “great American novel,” Moby Dick, has fascinated, entertained, bored, and horrified audiences for the past 150 years, but … is Moby Dick gay? Was Herman Melville caught up in a same-sex-love affair? Producer Cameron Tenner searches for answers and learns about exploring queerness in the past.
 
Featuring: Mark Beauregard, Kyla SchullerMusic: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie, Gentle Chase by Podington Bear, Skeptic by Podington Bear, Vanagon by Podington Bear, Little Black Cloud by Podington Bear, Waltz for an Imaginary Piano by Johnny Ripper, Lonesome by Podington Bear, Lucky Stars by Podington Bear, In My Head by Podington Bear, Sensitive by Podington Bear, Whaling Song by Paul Clayton

Speculation: Story 3 - The Coming Storm

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Houstonians Yue and Claudia wonder how future storms can be predicted. And if they can be predicted, whose responsibility is it to protect Houston?
 
Featuring: Jeff Lindner, Jim BlackburnMusic (from freesound.org): vision- ambient gamelan by that jeff carter, Ambient Drone Solfeggio by Headphaze, Cosmos by pointpark cinema, cyclone hurricane hugo by solostud