Radiolab Remixed
02 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Turning ideas into radio is one of the most exciting, frustrating, rewarding, and insanely fun thing...
Grumpy Old Terrorists
04 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
While working on The Bad Show, producer Pat Walters ran across some recordings that spooked him--p...
Colors
21 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Our world is saturated in color, from soft hues to violent stains. How does something so intangible ...
Colors Sneak Peek
14 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Just before the curtain went up on our live show in Los Angeles, Jad and Robert carved out a little ...
Fetal Consequences
01 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Mother's day is nigh. Sort of. Anyway, without knowing it, you might have already given your mom a p...
Crossroads
16 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In this short, we go looking for the devil, and find ourselves tangled in a web of details surroundi...
Guts
02 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? And what ...
The Turing Problem
19 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
100 years ago this year, the man who first conceived of the computer age was born. His name was Alan...
A War We Need
06 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, every moment, an epic battle is raging across the globe. It's happening in the ocean. And...
Escape!
20 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The walls are closing in, you've got no way out... and then, suddenly, you escape! This hour, storie...
Killer Empathy
07 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objecti...
Wake Up and Dream
24 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terro...
The Bad Show
09 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Cruelty, violence, badness... This episode of Radiolab, we wrestle with the dark side of human natur...
Mutant Rights
22 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action...
Radiolab Presents: 99% Invisible
13 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Mars loves to spotlight the seams and joints that make up the world around us. He's the host o...
Death Mask
28 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Near the end of the 19th century, a mysterious young woman with a beguiling smile turned up in Paris...
Patient Zero
14 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center—someone who sets things in motion and h...
Sleepless in South Sudan
31 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Zimmer is one of our go-to guys when we need help untangling a complicated scientific idea. But...
Slow
18 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Kohn Ashmore’s voice is arresting. It stopped his friend Andy Mills in his tracks the first time t...
Loops
04 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Our lives are filled with loops that hurt us, heal us, make us laugh, and, sometimes, leave us wanti...
Loop the Loop
20 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
For most of human history, flight was an impossible dream. In this short, the dizzying rise and fall...
Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom
06 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Ian Frazier made a startling discovery several years ago in eastern Siberia: no one he met th...
Games
23 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A good game--whether it's a pro football playoff, or a family showdown on the kitchen table--can mak...
Damn It, Basal Ganglia
09 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The basal ganglia is a core part of the brain, deep inside your skull, that helps control movement. ...
A 4-Track Mind
26 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When th...
REBROADCAST: Detective Stories
11 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We're celebrating summer with a classic episode of Radiolab--full of mystery, intrigue...and a goat ...
Curious Sounds: A Radiolab Concert
28 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this short, Jad presents the electrifying sounds of three mind-bending musical acts: Brooklyn duo...
Talking to Machines
31 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the...
Dogs Gone Wild
18 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this short, a family dog disappears into the woods...and the mystery of what happened to him rais...
Cosmic Habituation
03 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this short, Jonathan Schooler tells us about a discovery that launched his career and led to a pu...
Desperately Seeking Symmetry
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us...
Pass the Science
22 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Holmes went to Cambridge University intending to study the lives of poets. Until a dueling m...
Help!
08 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you? This hour, Radiolab looks for ways to gain the up...
A Flock of Two
23 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In today's short, we get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outb...
Radiolab Presents: The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
09 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece ...
Lost & Found
25 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we steer our way through a series of stories about getting lost, and ask how our br...
The Universe Knows My Name
11 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this new short, we explore luck and fate, both good and bad, with an author and a cartoon charact...
Blood Buddies
28 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this new short, a tree full of blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of...
The Good Show
14 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival...
Gravitational Anarchy
29 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return to the question of what felines feel when they f...
What Does Technology Want?
16 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?
Wild Talk
18 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie...
Cities
08 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick.
The Walls of Jericho
04 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Jad and Robert pit physics against a bible story with this simple question: could a team of trumpete...
Voices in Your Head
08 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought, inner speech, and the voice in...
Words
09 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But this hour, we try to do just that.
Secrets of Success
27 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn't believe that i...
The Luckiest Lobster
12 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
One place you absolutely, positively do not want to be if you're a healthy, middle-aged American lob...
Oops
28 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Oops. In this hour of Radiolab, stories of unintended consequences.
Strangers in the Mirror
16 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close,...
Famous Tumors
17 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this hour of Radiolab: an unflinching look at the good, bad, and ugly side of tumors.
Vanishing Words
05 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Agatha Christie's clever detective novels may reveal more about the inner workings of the human mind...
The Loudest Miniature Fuzz
21 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Music duo Buke and Gass play for us, attempt to describe their genre-bending sound, and talk a bit a...
Limits
05 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
On this hour of Radiolab: a journey to the edge of human limits.
The Bus Stop
23 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a common problem faced by Alzheimer's and Dementia patients all over the world: lost in th...
Do I Know You?
08 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know your mother is really your mother? It's simple, right? You look at her, you recogniz...
Lucy
19 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. Thi...
The Shy Baboon
08 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, a biopsychologist attempts to find an elusive bit of shared space across species li...
Fu Manchu
26 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In our episode Animal Minds, we asked whether it was possible for one animal to know what was going ...
Animal Minds
11 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication.
In C
15 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Ok, so last podcast you heard counting babies. Here’s a new spin...
Numbers
30 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, chances are you rely on numbers every day of your life. Where do t...
Killing Babies, Saving the World
17 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
To get this podcast started, Robert ambushes Jad with a question...a question we've all been dying t...
Helicopter Boy
03 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, a story about a mom, a boy, and a home-made helicopter.
New Normal?
19 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this hour of Radiolab: reframing our ideas about normalcy.
Blink
06 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
We ask a question we thought was a no-brainer in this podcast: why do we blink?
It Might Be Science
22 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
They Might Be Giants just came out with a new album, 'Here Comes Science.' So we invited them to com...
Parasites
07 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
What's gotten into you? In this hour, Radiolab uncovers a world full of parasites.
After Birth
25 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Pardon the graphic pun, but hey! For this podcast, Jad--a brand new father--wonders what's going on ...
15: Sum
14 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
For meditation number fifteen we have a reading from David Eagleman's book Sum. It's a vision of the...
14: The Four Groans
13 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Another meditation on what happens after the moment of death, this time as Shakespeare envisions it....
13: Gone
12 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our meditations on death with a reading from poet and writer, Mark Doty. This is an ex...
12: Proof
11 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we continue our meditations on death. Our After Life episode had eleven me...
After Life
27 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This hour: Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lie beyond...
In Defense of Darwin?
14 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
When evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' daughter was six years old, he told her that flowers ar...
Are We Coins?
30 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
After we released our show about Stochasticity, we received a lot of comments about the idea humans ...
Stochasticity
15 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Stochasticity (a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness), may be at the very foun...
Stayin' Alive
02 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we take a look at four unconventional ways to stay alive. We talk to geneti...
AV Smackdown . . . The Podcast
19 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
On May 6th, at WNYC's new Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, we opened up an age old can of worms. ...
Juana Molina
05 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes on the podcast, we like to talk about musicians and the music they make. Today we introduc...
In Silence
07 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Radiolab we explore big ideas and ask big questions to see how the world works.
DIY Universe
26 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how...
Mischel’s Marshmallows
09 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
How are your New Year's resolutions holding out? This might at least help you feel better about them...
Darwinvaganza
24 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's podcast, Radiolab throws a birthday party for Charles Darwin!
The Obama Effect, Perhaps.
28 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
When Jad and Robert saw this article about a study that found a link between President Obama's elect...
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
12 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The quest for scientific knowledge is one of the great and noble pursuits of humankind. It's also on...
Diagnosis
29 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Humans love to solve problems. In this hour of Radiolab, diagnosis--our attempt to find out what's w...
Race
15 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
This hour of Radiolab, a look at race.
Sperm
01 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Sperm carry half the genes needed for human life. In this hour of Radiolab, some basic questions and...
Choice
17 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Logic and emotion aren't the only forces that guide our decisions. This hour of Radiolab, we turn up...
Chris And Lisa
21 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Chris had a crush on Lisa. But how to woo her?
Sperm Tales
07 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s podcast, a teaser for our hour-long Sperm show. If you think you learned all there is t...
Chasing Bugs
23 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the first time you ever saw an ant hill? That parade of black insects pouring in and out of...
Making the Hippo Dance
09 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
We play some never-released tape from the vault, and reveal a bit about what techniques we used to t...
Quantum Cello
25 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Jad and cellist Zoe Keating discuss the physics (if not metaphysics) of looping sound and how to use...
The (Multi) Universe(s)
12 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Robert and Brian Greene discuss what's beyond the horizon of our universe, what you might wear in in...
Tell Me A Story
29 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Krulwich's commencement speech at California Institute of Technology gets at the heart of wha...
City X
01 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a piece from one of our favorite radio-makers, Jonathan Mitchell. 'City X' is a history o...
Earworms
17 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
First, we asked you to tell us what song gets stuck in your head. Then, we asked you how you got it ...
Wordless Music
03 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast, we share an excerpt from Wordless Music on WNYC, a 4-part music program host...