Heather Radke, a writer and contributing editor/reporter at Radiolab, chats with Trey Elling about BUTTS: A BACKSTORY. Topics include:

Heather's goal with Butts (0:00)
The gluteal cleft (2:13)
Why humans evolved to have butts (3:31)
How the butt is a Swiss Army Knife (5:26)
Male peacocks and the female human butt (7:07)
The modern objectification of the female butt beginning with Sarah Baartman 200+ years ago (10:56)
Scientists' creating racial hierarchy with butts (and more) in the 1800s (14:44)
The bustle in the late 1800s (17:16)
The flapper of the 1920s (20:20)
Josephine Baker's butt nearly ending European civilization (23:50)
Attempting to define "normal" in the mid-1900s (26:08)
The model responsible for how many clothing companies determine the fit for women's pants (29:23)
Buns of Steel (32:29)
The start of 'fat fitness' in the 1980s (35:53)
Sir Mix-A-Lot and Baby Got Back (38:13)
Why women's butts have been more openly discussed since around 2000 (42:59)
Beyonce and "Bootylicious" (46:30)
2014 as the 'Year of the Butt' (49:20)
The next big thing in butts (51:22)

#307 - Heather Radke on BUTTS: A BACKSTORY