I’m a producer at an NPR show called Radiolab.Tumblr (3.0; @patwalters)http://patwalters.tumblr.com/<iframe src="http://www.funnyordie.com/embed/314ad1c060" width="400" height="250" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/38320512194http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/38320512194Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:45:39 -0600<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1975288517/oru-kayak-the-origami-folding-boat/widget/video.html" frameborder="0"> </iframe><br/><br/><p>Boat friends in cities! Buy a boat. Fold it up. Keep it behind your couch. Yay!</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/37795060763http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/37795060763Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:05:42 -0600<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=166256822" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><br/><p>I’m not sure the tiny desk has ever been rocked so hard.</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/37190374701http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/37190374701Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:48:08 -0600<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iGnCvLPZm84?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/35786755371http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/35786755371Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:26:05 -0600<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EDxOSjgl5Z4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/35085263348http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/35085263348Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:20:01 -0600<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7ZmJtYaUTa0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. The stunt out of the sand trap on the golf course at the end is just unreal.</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/33777899277http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/33777899277Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:43:13 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vC8gJ0_9o4M?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Watch with CC enabled. CHEEEEEZ! DOOOOODLES!</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/33688289746http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/33688289746Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:13:54 -0500<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2012/08/lance-armstrong-decision-not-to-fight-doping-charges.html">Now, I'm afraid, he is nothing.</a>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/30124338101http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/30124338101Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:31:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m94cgx5o621qz8t75o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/sports/The-Soccer-Ball-That-Doesnt-Need-Air.html" target="_blank">One World Futbol.</a> The awesomely cheap, un-deflate-able, indestructible (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9su83Pxrmc&feature=fvwrel" target="_blank">watch a lion try to destroy it here</a>) soccer ball that’s about to take over the world. Buy one and another one goes to kids in refugee camps in Africa. I just bought one and gave two. Spread the word.</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29910316837http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29910316837Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:53:21 -0500<iframe width="400" height="310" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" id="nyt_video_player" title="New York Times Video - Embed Player" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000001731940&playerType=embed"></iframe><br/><br/><p>CJ Chivers is a fucking badass.</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29901868996http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29901868996Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:05:37 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92ms24sHZ1qz8t75o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Did you ever wonder why we draw hearts the way we draw hearts? <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2006/02/the_shape_of_my_heart.html" target="_blank"><em>Slate</em> has some ideas.</a> But I can’t help thinking it all comes back to this sweat on my shirt, and the fact that some guy hundreds of years ago before we drew hearts that way had the very same sweaty shirt.</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29847222454http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29847222454Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:40:50 -0500<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pre-trial-slave-sues-jail-11-million-vermont-001819719.html">A quarter an hour, or go to the hole!</a>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29829649024http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29829649024Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:02:20 -0500<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/ehs-bfi081312.php">Term of the Day: Popcorn Worker's Lung.</a>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29408423262http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29408423262Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:16:33 -0500<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/06/sheep-text-wolf-attacks">If a sheep had thumbs, what would it text?</a>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29365818964http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29365818964Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:00:31 -0500<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R9MA2_m3W9U?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Happy birthday, Alfie. Thanks for making this. If you hit play, prepare to be really stressed out for 20 minutes.</p>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29339779209http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/29339779209Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:36:10 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2">SHOW AND TELL, says master Colson.</a>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/28482813896http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/28482813896Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:38:13 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8ZMPRfrszgU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/28358696963http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/28358696963Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:58:42 -0500<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018752842_goatman23.html">THE GOAT MAN</a>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/27916361803http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/27916361803Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:05:52 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2wzhJLiCB0I?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/27486706157http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/27486706157Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:10:37 -0500“The giant of Fort Lupton was born, like a cowbird’s chick, to parents of ordinary size.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/23/120723fa_fact_bilger" target="_blank">“The Strongest Man in the World,”</a> <em>The New Yorker</em>, in which Burk Bilger, one of my favorite writers of all time, profiles Brian Shaw, the guy one of my best friends used to have to guard in high school basketball games.</em>http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/27350265528http://patwalters.tumblr.com/post/27350265528Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:55:00 -0500