Radiolab
Episodes
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 a small sand mound...most of us stopped, looked a...
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 try and make it sing.
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 a 17th century instrument to make avant-garde ele...
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 infinite universes with finite pairs of designer sho...
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 what we do here at Radiolab.
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 of the modern shopping mall through perspectives of...
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 out. Finally, we made a podcast. Thank you to ever...
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 hosted by Jad, exploring the boundaries between classi...
Open Outcry
20 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Jad presents a piece by one of his favorite producers: Ben Rubin. Rubin created this audio portrait called 'Open Outcry' as a part of a sound installa...
Jad and Robert: The Early Years
06 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder how Jad and Robert met?
Pop Music
21 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
This hour of Radiolab: pop music's pull.
(So-Called) Life
07 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where biology and engineering intersect, how do you decide what's "natural"?
Laughter
25 Feb 2008
Contributed by Lukas
We all laugh. This hour of Radiolab asks why.
Our Podcast comes in all shapes and sizes
11 Feb 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Jad plays one of his favorite pieces of all time, 'IF' by Sherre DeLys.
Salle Des Departs
29 Jan 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine that you're a composer. Imagine getting the commission to write a song that will allow family members to face the death of a loved one.
The Ring and I
01 Jan 2008
Contributed by Lukas
On this Radiolab/WNYC Special, we explore the impact and influence of Wagner's Ring Cycle on the Metropolitan Opera's 2004 Presentation.
The Wright Brothers
18 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
104 years ago this week, Wilbur and Orville Wright managed to coax their spruce biplane off the North Carolina sand for twelve seconds, and those twel...
Contact
04 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a look at the different ways that people connect to each other, and how they act once they’re together. NOTE: This episode contains EXPLI...
Space Capsules
20 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
How would you describe life on Earth to an alien? In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched into space. And with it, went the Golden Record-- a sort ti...
Making Radiolab
09 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
In spring of 2006, Jad and Robert took the stage at the SoHo Apple Store to talk about the making of Radiolab. Jad geeks out on the nitty-gritty of di...
Musical Language
24 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
In this hour of Radiolab, we examine the line between language and music.
Detective Stories
10 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Forensics, archeology, genealogy, and genetics are devoted to figuring out what really happened. In this hour of Radiolab, digging up the past leads t...
This is Your Brain On Love
28 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Radiolab is given the charge to put on a Singles Night. That's right. 'Jad,' they said, 'stand on a stage and make strangers fall in love! Or, at leas...
Emergence
14 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies -- all without...
Morality
13 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Where does our sense of right and wrong come from?
Beyond Time
24 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, Radiolab goes to the front lines with men and women who are battling against time -- or at least the common-sense view of time.
Mortality
14 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This hour of Radiolab: is death a disease that can be cured?
Memory and Forgetting
07 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.
Zoos
04 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
In a cruel trick of evolution, humans can stand just three feet from a ferocious animal and still be perfectly safe. This hour, Radiolab goes to the z...
Time
29 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that d...
Sleep
24 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Birds do it, bees do it...yet science still can't answer the basic question: why do we sleep?
Placebo
17 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
With new research demonstrating the startling power of the placebo effect, this hour of Radiolab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imag...
Who Am I?
07 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. But in this hour of Radiolab, neurologists lead the charge on profound que...
Stress
09 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Stress may save your life if you're being chased by a tiger. But if you're stuck in traffic, it may be more likely to make you sick. This hour, a long...
Radiolab | We Go Places
08 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through ...
Where Am I?
05 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
OK. Maybe you're in your desk chair. You're in your office. You're in New York, or Detroit, or Timbuktu. You're on planet Earth. But where are you, r...