Baby Blue Blood Drive
Radiolab
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'Quantum Vertigo'
Crabs are an efficient machine of a species, without the drag of the individual. As we fall asleep that night, thousands of us sinking into the cool mud all at once, a kind of communal dream takes place and we awake united. But alas, curse of us creatures unable to change a thing about ourselves since the dinosaurs. We can never get this elevated state to last any longer than a couple of weeks. It ends instantaneously with the hatch. Once we've watched as tiny versions of us disappear into the surf, the collective conscious begins to decay. Our selves float back down into our shells and we feel that familiar itch again of loneliness,. A self confined irrevocably to its own
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