I love Radiolab as entertainment podcasting, but it's worth knowing that they're surface-skimming their topics and frequently make meaningful errors on the deta

I love Radiolab as entertainment podcasting, but it's worth knowing that they're surface-skimming their topics and frequently make meaningful errors on the details. I recall vaguely a story they did about how it was hard to walk straight while blindfolded and how weird that was, and I immediately flashed back to a college professor demonstrating this in a controls theory class... But as a proof of how inaccuracy mounts in an open-loop control system, because that's actually entirely expected (the odds random error would sum consistently to zero is what would be weird and unexpected).