Stories of people who are trying to make invisible worlds visible, and what happens when you make them visible.
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Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
Producer Alex Blumberg with people who listen in on the invisible world on the nether reaches of the radio spectrum, mostly illegally...and what they find there. (14 minutes)
More Powerful Than A Locomotive
Able To Leap Tall Buildings
Act Four
Producer Nancy Updike tells the story of scientists who simply made up an invisible, weightless subatomic particle called the neutrino. Then they set out on the task of finding it, using tools that sound positively crude: A mineshaft and 100,000 gallons of dry cleaning fluid. (9 minutes)
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Act One: Finding the Self in Selfie
Act Two: Scrapbook, The Verb
Act Two: You Know What Mr Bear Would Say
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