As many of you know, I am on a quest to assign a dollar value to stories. I will not rest until there is a calculation a company can use that says “stories add X to our P&L each year.”
So it is with great interest that I listened to a RadioLab podcast episode called “Ghosts In The Green Machine.” The episode engages in what even RadioLab calls the “possibly foolhardy attempt to figure out the dollar value of the work of bats and bees.”
The episode is here:
Have you listened to RadioLab before? I started listening to them about 15 years ago, and in fact at one point I attended a show they recorded live in Seattle.
By the way, anytime I hear someone refer to a ghost of any sort in the machine, I think of the Police album, from 1981, which is probably my favorite Police album of all time. For me, The Police and The Talking Heads are two of those bands where my favorite album is the one that I am listening to at the moment, and I tried hard to identify my favorite song from Ghost In The Machine, but I couldn’t, so I will just link to the whole album here:
