Radiolab

11 Feb 2022

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It's hard to start a conversation with a stranger—especially when that stranger is, well, differen...

04 Feb 2022

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For much of history, tree canopies were pretty much completely ignored by science. It was as if rese...

28 Jan 2022

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Jad started Radiolab roughly 20 years ago. And now he is stepping aside from hosting and producing t...

21 Jan 2022

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Last week, Lulu heard an interview that trapped her in her car. She decided to play it for Latif. Th...

14 Jan 2022

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It would seem that hackers today can do just about anything they want - from turning on the cellphon...

07 Jan 2022

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What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth?   We make the case for 536 AD, which set off ...

31 Dec 2021

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This past year was a flop. From questionable blockbuster reboots to supply chain shenanigans to wors...

17 Dec 2021

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When Alana Casanova-Burgess set out to make a podcast series about Puerto Rico, she struggled with w...

10 Dec 2021

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Tuck your napkin under your chin.  We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops -...

26 Nov 2021

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In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication. When we gaze into the eyes of a wi...

19 Nov 2021

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In tape five, three stories: first, a tale of how the cassette tape supercharged the self-help indus...

12 Nov 2021

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In 1983, Simon Goodwin had a strange thought. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software ov...

05 Nov 2021

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As the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in ...

29 Oct 2021

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In 1946 Bing Crosby was the king of media. He was the movie star, the pop star and his radio show wa...

22 Oct 2021

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Through the 1980s, the vast majority of people in China had never heard western music, save for John...

15 Oct 2021

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Ecologist Nick Haddad was sitting in his new office at North Carolina State University when the phon...

01 Oct 2021

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One morning, Oliver Sipple went out for a walk. A couple hours later, to his own surprise, he saved...

24 Sep 2021

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Today we have a story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we hu...

17 Sep 2021

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Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure. In...

10 Sep 2021

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It has now been 20 years since September 11th, 2001. So we’re bringing you a Peabody Award-winning...

26 Aug 2021

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Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, even psoriasis — these are diseases in which the ...

20 Aug 2021

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We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, ...

06 Aug 2021

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In 2014, India’s Dutee Chand was a rising female track and field star, crushing national records. ...

23 Jul 2021

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If you’ve ever lost someone, or watched a medical drama in the last 15 years, you’ve probably he...

19 Jul 2021

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A major development in the case of Guantanamo detainee Abdul Latif Nasser. To listen to our series a...

15 Jul 2021

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In the past few weeks, most people have probably seen Britney Spears' name or face everywhere. When...

09 Jul 2021

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Lift Every Voice: Episode Six from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Ja...

02 Jul 2021

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Roland Hayes and the Lost Generation: Episode Five from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part ...

29 Jun 2021

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Our Harlem Moon: Episode Four from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad ...

26 Jun 2021

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Black No More, White No More: Episode Three from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series c...

19 Jun 2021

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Dreams Deferred: Episode Two from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad A...

18 Jun 2021

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The Rise and Fall of Black Swan: Episode One from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series c...

11 Jun 2021

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We’ve just barely made it to the other side of a year that took our collective breaths away. So mo...

27 May 2021

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Back in 2014, Corey Knowlton paid $350,000 for a hunting trip to Namibia to shoot and kill an endang...

21 May 2021

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This episode, a tale of a wonder drug that will make you wonder about way more than just drugs.   ...

13 May 2021

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You order some stuff on the Internet and it shows up three hours later. How could all the things tha...

05 May 2021

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In this episode, we break the thermometer watch the mercury spill out as we discover temperature i...

22 Apr 2021

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Today, Lulu and Latif talk about some of their favorite episodes from Radiolab’s past that hold ne...

15 Apr 2021

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While most of us hear a wall of white noise, squeaks, and squawks....David Rothenberg hears a sympho...

02 Apr 2021

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Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what m...

25 Mar 2021

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Scientists took about 300 years to lay out the Periodic Table into neat rows and columns. In one hou...

19 Mar 2021

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As we hit the one year mark since the first U.S. state (California) issued a stay-at-home order to p...

12 Mar 2021

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Last summer, at a hospital in England, a man in his 70s being treated for complications with cancer ...

25 Feb 2021

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In November of 2016, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster's apartment in Bro...

19 Feb 2021

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It was the early 80s, the height of the Cold War, when something strange began happening off the coa...

12 Feb 2021

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Since its inception, the perennial thorn in Facebook’s side has been content moderation. That is, ...

29 Jan 2021

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Candid Camera is one of the most original – and one of the most mischievous – TV shows of all ti...

16 Jan 2021

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We’re all still processing what happened on January 6th. Despite the hours and hours of video circ...

15 Jan 2021

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Back in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning and the shelter-in-place orders br...

13 Jan 2021

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As the attacks were unfolding on the Capitol, a steady stream of images poured onto our screens. Ph...

23 Dec 2020

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This year was the worst. And as our staff tried to figure out what to do for our last episode of 202...

18 Dec 2020

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A global pandemic. An afflicted, angry group. A seemingly indifferent government. Reporter Tracie Hu...

10 Dec 2020

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Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen ...

03 Dec 2020

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Until now, the fastest vaccine ever made - for mumps - took four years. And while our current effort...

25 Nov 2020

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What if someone asked you to get infected with the COVID-19 virus, deliberately, in order to speed u...

19 Nov 2020

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Lies, liars, and lie catchers. This hour of Radiolab asks if it's possible for anyone to lead a life...

13 Nov 2020

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In the days after the US Presidential election was called for Joe Biden, many supporters of Donald ...

02 Nov 2020

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In the 1996 election, Bill Clinton had a problem. The women who came out in droves for him in ‘92,...

31 Oct 2020

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Baboon troops. We all know they’re hierarchical. There’s the big brutish alpha male who rules wi...

23 Oct 2020

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There’s plenty of speculation about what Donald Trump might do in the wake of the election. Would ...

08 Oct 2020

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With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power th...

02 Oct 2020

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What are the police for? Producer B.A. Parker started wondering this back in June, as Black Lives Ma...

25 Sep 2020

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Coronasomnia is a not-so-surprising side-effect of the global pandemic. More and more of us are havi...

19 Sep 2020

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We lost a legend. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18th, 2020. She was 87...

17 Sep 2020

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There are so many ways to fall—in love, asleep, even flat on your face. This hour, Radiolab dives ...

11 Sep 2020

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Today, we return to the lab of neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai, which brought us one of our favorite sto...

04 Sep 2020

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Six years ago, a new infection began popping up in four different hospitals on three different conti...

27 Aug 2020

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How close can words get you to the truth and feel and force of life? That's the question poking at ...

21 Aug 2020

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This is a story of a road trip. After a particularly traumatic Valentine's Day, Fadi Boukaram was su...

14 Aug 2020

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When we think of China today, we think of a technological superpower. From Huawei and 5G to TikTok ...

07 Aug 2020

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First things first: our very own Latif Nasser has an exciting new show on Netflix. He talks to Jad a...

31 Jul 2020

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As scientists have been scrambling to find new and better ways to treat covid-19, they’ve come ac...

24 Jul 2020

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Horseshoe crabs are not much to look at.  But beneath their unassuming catcher’s-mitt shell, they...

17 Jul 2020

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It’s hard to imagine what the world will look like when COVID-19 has passed. So in this episode, w...

12 Jul 2020

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How do you actually make change in the world? For 126 years, Mississippi has had the Confederate bat...

25 Jun 2020

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Jad gives a TED talk about his life as a journalist and how Radiolab has evolved over the years. Her...

19 Jun 2020

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Today we revisit our story on Facebook and its rulebook, looking at what’s changed in the past two...

13 Jun 2020

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In June of 2019, Brandon Ogbunu got on stage and told a story for The Story Collider, a podcast and ...

07 Jun 2020

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If former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s case for the death of George Floyd goes to tr...

06 Jun 2020

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Producer Tracie Hunte stumbled into a duet between Nina Simone and the sounds of protest outside he...

29 May 2020

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Covid has disrupted the most basic routines of our days and nights. But in the middle of a conversat...

22 May 2020

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There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

15 May 2020

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In 2007, Bruce Robison’s robot submarine stumbled across an octopus settling in to brood her eggs....

13 May 2020

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Our old friend Lulu Miller — former Radiolab producer, co-creator of Invisibilia — has been obse...

08 May 2020

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David Gebel and Dominique Crisden have a couple of things in common: they both live in New York, the...

06 May 2020

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Covid-19 has put emergency room doctors on the frontlines treating an illness that is still perplexi...

24 Apr 2020

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Back in the 1950s, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, federal officials sat down and ponder...

18 Apr 2020

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One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and...

11 Apr 2020

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Since the onset of the pandemic, we exist in a constant state of calculation, trying to define our o...

06 Apr 2020

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One of the most consistent questions we get at the show is from parents who want to know which epi...

03 Apr 2020

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More than a million people have caught Covid-19, and tens of thousands have died. But thousands more...

01 Apr 2020

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It began with a tweet: “EVERY DAY IS IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS DAY.” Carl Zimmer — tweet author, acclai...

27 Mar 2020

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In a recent Radiolab group huddle, with coronavirus unraveling around us, the team found themselves ...

17 Mar 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely ...

06 Mar 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely ...

03 Mar 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely ...

25 Feb 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely ...

18 Feb 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely ...

11 Feb 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely ...

04 Feb 2020

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The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely...