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Diagnosis

Humans love to solve problems. In this hour, diagnosis -- our attempt to find out what's wrong, and give it a label...

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KCRW placeholderBy Jad Abumrad • Mar 27, 2011 • 1 min read

In this day and age, we have astonishing technology -- chemicals and computers and machines that can pinpoint things imperceptible to our senses. But humans aren't obsolete -- intuition and creativity still lead the way both in discovering the nature of the problem, and in dealing with that knowledge.

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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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