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More Perfect: Sex Appeal

Fri, 7 Mar 2025

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In 2017 our sister show, More Perfect aired an episode all about RBG, In September of 2020, we lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the annals of history. She was 87. Given the atmosphere around reproductive rights, gender and law, we decided to re-air this More Perfect episode dedicated to one of her cases. Because it offers a unique portrait of how one person can make change in the world. This is the story of how Ginsburg, as a young lawyer at the ACLU, convinced an all-male Supreme Court to take discrimination against women seriously - using a case on discrimination against men. Special thanks to Stephen Wiesenfeld, Alison Keith, and Bob Darcy.Supreme Court archival audio comes from Oyez®, a free law project in collaboration with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Julia LongoriaProduced by - Julia LongoriaOriginal music and sound design contributed by - Alex OveringtonOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected] 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. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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How did John Lowe save his wife with CPR?

114.74 - 120.504 Sara Khari

Now, John had actually heard about this technique a couple months earlier when he was in a CPR training at work.

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120.584 - 134.896 John Lowe

But at the same time, I am, you know, a middle-aged guy, out of shape, overweight. I have just kind of always in the back of my mind assumed I would be on the receiving end of CPR.

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135.257 - 137.739 Sara Khari

So he told me that that night with Angie.

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137.919 - 141.002 John Lowe

Because I had just listened to that episode of Radiolab.

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141.122 - 144.204 Sara Khari

The hands-only technique had sort of been refreshed in his mind.

144.324 - 144.625 John Lowe

Correct.

145.325 - 147.047 Sara Khari

Along with one other thing Avira had said.

147.248 - 151.693 John Lowe

When he was talking about the curve. So this is a survival curve.

151.753 - 155.518 Sara Khari

He had talked about how when a heart stops, like in a cardiac arrest.

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