In two thousand 18 i was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. My only treatment option really, was a bone marrow transplant. And so my doctors told me they were looking on the registry for a donor,. and haven was a perfect match for me. So we both wold out that paper work saying we wanted to meet each other. But it was during the pandemic, so we actually contacted each other through email first. We met at the the match galla in new york last month. There's now a gala so the people can get together in a hotel room and look at the people whe've given them the bone marrowawordthe be the match is the organization which organ
Back in 2002, Jad Abumrad started Radiolab as a live radio show. He DJ’d out into the ether and 20 years later we do the same. To commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the show, the Radiolab team went old school and took over WNYC Radio, live on the FM band. We answered the phones, played some wonderfully weird audio, including one piece where Kurt Vonnegut—yes, that Kurt Vonnegut—interviews the dead, took part in some games and tomfoolery, and did everything we could to have and to share in our good time.