![]() What it all reveals is that what we fear and how we articulate those fears are a lot more shifty and sandy than you might think. LATIF: In 2013, journalist Dan Engber pulled our editor Soren Wheeler into his obsession with quicksand and its surprisingly deep resonances through history. And it makes total sense why, right? Like, the sucking, sinking inevitable drawn-outness of it, that's just universally terrifying, right? Turns out? Nope. When many of us were younger, TV and movies were full of moments where some hapless character would be walking along in some new, exotic place, they'd take a wrong step and then they'd just start to slowly get slurped down into the Earth. ![]() Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab () today.įollow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and share your thoughts with us by emailing. Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. Then Carlton Cuse, who at the time we first aired this episode was best-known as the writer and executive producer of Lost, helps us think about whether giant pits of hero-swallowing mud might one day creep back into the spotlight.Īnd, as this episode first aired in 2013, we can see if we were right. ![]() He immersed himself in research, compiled mountains of data, met with quicksand fetishists and, in the end, formulated a theory about why the terror of his childhood seems to have lost its menacing allure. In this episode, Dan recounts for Soren and Robert Krulwich the story of his obsession. Dan became obsessed with quicksand after happening upon a strange fact: kids are no longer afraid of it. Then-Producer Soren Wheeler introduces us to Dan Engber, writer and columnist for Slate, now with The Atlantic. But these days, quicksand can't even scare an 8-year-old. For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear - it held a vise grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about venturing into unknown lands. ![]()
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