Doughnut Plant Chelsea Review: Eating lots of donuts is good
Sometimes I wish for a better balance between anecdotes and data. For a while in October, my phone was dying a slow death after three years of Windows Mobile, and I didn't listen to Radio Lab for a while. This week I caught up on it and was amazed by their storytelling abilities. There was one episode on Inheritance and in that episode was a segment about a meth addict woman who had at least eight children, and she abandoned each one at the hospital after birth. The story was about whether or not the kids inherited any bad effects by starting out with such unfortunate circumstances. The story was very compelling, but I can't help but wonder how it really would shape a listeners views about a particular issue by going with a sample size of eight. But since the radio prose strummed such...