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    Lost and Found

    Stories about getting lost and how our brains, and our hearts, help us get home...

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    KCRW placeholderBy Jad Abumrad • Jan 8, 2012 • 1 min read

    Stories about getting lost and how our brains, and our hearts, help us get home. We meet a woman who has spent her entire life getting lost, and go to a military base in New Jersey to learn about some amazing feats of navigational wizardry. Finally, we turn to a very different kind of lost and found: a love story about running into a terrifying, and unexpected, fork in the road.

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      Jad Abumrad

      creator of "Radiolab," and host of the new podcast “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man”

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      Robert Krulwich

      host of 'Radio Lab'

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