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- External Link What’s the one thing you’d pass on if we all disappeared tomorrow? (en)
- External Link Stories of nature and nurture slamming into each other, & shaping our biological blueprints. (en)
- External Link A look up and down the US nuclear chain of command to find out who gets to authorize their use and who can stand in the way of Armageddon. (en)
- Robert Krulwich joins Jad Abumrad for stories about humans taking inspiration from birds: A look back at the Wright brothers, a study of a crow who makes and uses tools, and an ornithological obsession about a rare New Zealand bird. (en)
- External link We all laugh. This hour of Radiolab asks why. (en)
- External link Producer Briana Breen and the podcast Love + Radio bring us a story about a very eventful year in the life of an accidental voyeur. (en)
- External link The inhumanly fast world of high-speed trading, an excruciatingly slow experiment, and a physicist plays Zeus. (en)
- External Link One woman's medically miraculous cancer cells, and how Henrietta Lacks changed modern science and, eventually, her family's understanding of itself. Compiled from "UPDATE: Famous Tumors" . (en)
- External Link At Radiolab, we’re obsessed with music. In this episode, we embrace that obsession for its own sake. Compiled from "Juana Molina" , "John Luther Adams" , and "Unraveling Bolero" . (en)
- External link Robert talks with Brian Greene about what's beyond the horizon of our universe. (en)
- External Link We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map. (en)
- External Link Stories of the Voyager space probe told by Ann Druyan and Merav Opher. Compiled from the "Looking Up" segment of "Space" and the "Is There an Edge to the Heavens?" segment of "Escape!" . (en)
- External Link Today, we find ourselves in a room in Cleveland, Ohio, where a group of journalists are challenging the way we think about newspapers, and ourselves. (en)
- External Link This episode makes three attempts to put a price on the priceless. One story figures out the dollar value for an accidental death, another one day of life, and the third assesses the work of bats and bees and tries to keep careful calculations from falling apart in the face of the realities of life, love, and loss. (en)
- External link Is reality an ethereal, mathematical poem... or is it made up of solid, physical stuff? In this short, we kick rocks, slap tables, and argue about the nature of the universe with Jim Holt. (en)
- External link In the wake of public tragedy there is a space between the official narrative and the stories of the people who experienced it. Today, we crawl inside that space and question the role of journalists in helping us move on from a traumatic event. NPR's East Africa correspondent Gregory Warner takes us back to the 2013 terrorist attacks on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Warner reported on the attack as it happened, listening to eyewitness accounts, sorting out the facts, establishing the truth. But he's been wrestling with it ever since as his friends and neighbors try not only to put their lives back together, but also try to piece together what really happened that day. (en)
- External link Just before the curtain went up on our live show in Los Angeles, Jad and Robert carved out a little stage time for a sneak peek at next week's Colors episode. (en)
- External link One of our favorite human beings turns 80 this week. To celebrate, Robert asks Oliver Sacks to look back on his career, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career. (en)
- External link Stories about walking the tightrope between doubt and certainty. (en)
- External link The basal ganglia is a core part of the brain, deep inside your skull, that helps control movement. Unless something upsets the chain of command. In this short, Jad and Robert meet a young researcher who was studying what happens when the basal ganglia gets short-circuited in mice...until one fateful day, when things got really, really weird. (en)
- External Link A conversation with Lulu Miller about chaos, science, and her new book, Why Fish Don’t Exist. (en)
- External Link Beethoven, like you've never heard him before. (en)
- External link In this short, Jad puts on his music hat and shares his love of Dawn of Midi, a band that he recently started using on the show. (en)
- External Link America represents many different things to many different people. What if you could only choose one thing, one physical object, to represent it all? (en)
- External link In early August of 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi had a run of the worst luck imaginable. A double blast of radiation left his future, and the future of his descendants, in doubt. In this short: an utterly amazing survival story that spans ... well, 4 billion years when you get down to it. (en)
- External link We have a special bonus this week to accompany our Stochasticity episode. We asked our friends, Higher Mammals to produce a song and video for our Stochasticity show. We hope you find it completely Random! (en)
- External link Producer Lu Olkowski brings us the story of a tight-knit family caught on opposite sides of a very big divide. If you ask Ally Manning's mom and sister, they'll tell you there's no question: they're black. But as a teenager, Ally decided that what was true for them didn't make sense for her. (en)
- External link Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. (en)
- External Link We explore songs with the power to transcend language and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan. (en)
- External Link Real-life people try to pin down, and make peace with, mysterious figures that haunt them, prod them, and fade out of existence. Featured guests include Jeremy Grange, Elizabeth King, Tore Laerdal, Latif Nasser, Mary Roach, Carlene Stephens and Steve Volk. Compiled from "12: Proof" , "Death Mask" , "Wake Up and Dream" , and "A Clockwork Miracle" . (en)
- External Link Today's story is a mystery, shockingly hot, and vanishingly tiny. (en)
- External link The uneasy marriage of biology and engineering raises big questions about the nature of life. (en)
- External link The desire to trace your way back to the very beginning, to understand everything -- whether it's the mysteries of love or the mechanics of the universe -- is deeply human. It might also be deeply flawed. (en)
- External Link Guests Thomas Cronin, Jules Davidoff, Guy Deutscher, Victoria Finlay, James Gleick, Jonah Lehrer and Jay Neitz share stories about how our world is saturated in color and examine how something so intangible packs such a visceral punch. (en)
- External link Turning ideas into radio is one of the most exciting, frustrating, rewarding, and insanely fun things there is. Which got us thinking--why not ask you to join in on the fun? So we teamed up with Indaba for our first-ever remix competition. And now we get to play the winners. (en)
- External link We follow up on our Stochasticity show with an exploration of whether the little choices we make every day are predictable or not. (en)
- External Link When shooting and killing an endangered species might be the best way to save it. This episode contains strong language. (en)
- External link It’s Robert’s birthday! So today we celebrate with some classic Krulwich radio and a backwards peek into the spirit and sensibility that, in many ways, drives our show. (en)
- External Link We travel to the limbo space between foreign and domestic to find the up and downsides of being a US citizen. (en)
- External link Improv comedy puts uncertainty on center stage -- performers usually start by asking the audience for a prompt, then they make up the details as they go. But two actors in Chicago are taking this idea to its absolute limit, and finding ways to navigate the unknown. (en)
- External link When Kelley Benham and her husband Tom French finally got pregnant, after many attempts and a good deal of technological help, everything was perfect. Until it wasn't. Their story raises questions that, until recently, no parent had to face… and that are still nearly impossible to answer. (en)
- External Link What happens if we hand over our stickiest moral quandary to a two-ton hunk of metal and let it loose on our streets? Compiled from the "Chimp Fights and Trolley Rides" segment of "Morality" . (en)
- External link A look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgotten. (en)
- External link A short piece about songs that get stuck in people's heads and how they get them out. (en)
- External link Rome's Colosseum, frozen carcasses, wild jaguars, and a question: how do you build a better cage? (en)
- External link In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick. (en)
- External Link When you run the math, who comes out on top, the living or the dead? (en)
- External Link We join Ben Montgomery, a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, as he looks at every person killed or injured by Florida police over six years. (en)
- External link The philosophy or morality from a neuroscience perspective. (en)
- External Link This week, we lace up our skates and tell a story about loving a sport that doesn’t love you back, and being judged in front of the world according to rules you don’t understand. (en)
- External Link Cataclysmic destruction. Surprising survival. In this new live stage performance, Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonizingly slow.
This hour we celebrate the one thing that all things do: end. From the stage in Seattle, with an all-star cast of comedians and musical guests, we bring you stories that end with a bang, with a whimper, and with astonishing bravery and resilience in the face of one's own demise. (en)
- External link Music duo Buke and Gase talk to Jad about coaxing delightfully twangy sounds from their homemade instruments. (en)
- External link Richard Holmes went to Cambridge University intending to study the lives of poets. Until a dueling mathematician, and a dinner conversation composed entirely of gestures, changed his mind. (en)
- External link This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten. (en)
- External Link More Perfect is back with a Constitutional mix-tape and off-beat stories about each of the 27 Amendments. (en)
- External Link We’re not done with Episode 5 yet! While we wait, Jad and Latif chat about Abdul Latif’s response to the series, deleted scenes, and the nudges that make us who we are. (en)
- External link In this short, the tale of an arms race involving trillions of sea creatures--and why their struggle is vital to our survival. (en)
- External Link A look at two groups of uncounted Americans who want to have a say in our democracy. Plus, Latif has a new show on Netflix! (en)
- External Link In this episode, strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and, sometimes, propel them to do amazing things. Compiled from "Damn It, Basal Ganglia" , "Gravitational Anarchy" , "Slow" , and "In the Running" . (en)
- External link Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure. In this short, Diane tells us how her disability gave rise to an extraordinary ability. (en)
- External Link What’s the smartest animal in the world? We figure it out the best way we know how... an animal game show. (en)
- External Link A terrible Christmas special befitting a terrible year. (en)
- External Link What are people thinking when they risk their lives for someone else? Is heroism an act of sympathy or empathy? Compiled from the "I Need a Hero" segment of "The Good Show" . (en)
- External Link Today, an incident of racial profiling, a confrontation with scientific racism, and the liberation of RNA. Features a story told by C. Brandon Ogbunu for the Story Collider podcast. (en)
- External Link We dive into the gray zone of consent and wrestle with questions of culpability, generational divides, and the utility of fear in changing our culture. (en)
- External link Psychologist Walter Mischel explains how one little test involving a marshmallow might tell you a frightening amount about what kind of person you are. (en)
- External Link A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, there’s a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour. (en)
- External link Jad and cellist Zoe Keating discuss the physics of looping sound and how to use a 17th-century instrument to make avant-garde electronic music. (en)
- External link In this podcast, Jad and Robert throw some physics at a bible story. We find out just how many trumpeters you'd actually need to blow down the walls of Jericho. (en)
- External link Words have the power to shape the way we think and feel. In this stunning video , filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante bandy visual wordplay into a moving exploration of the power of language. (en)
- External link Temporal stories not covered in the previous episode. (en)
- External Link During World War II, something happened that nobody ever talks about. A tale of mysterious balloons, children caught up in the winds of war. And the terror of silence. (en)
- External link They Might Be Giants celebrate at our season launch party with a live concert, and a conversation about the tricky business of combining science and entertainment. (en)
- External Link Parasitic genes, public poop, and the eerie sound of a subway train. What is ... the answer to your stupid question? (en)
- External link Biopsychologist Barbara Smuts takes us to a remote area of Kenya, where she tried to gain the trust of a troop of baboons in the 1970s. (en)
- External Link In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. What if the only way forward is backward? (en)
- External link This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is a legal battle that has entangled a biological father, a heart-broken couple, and the tragic history of Native American children taken from their families. (en)
- External link This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece from across the pond--a piece about soccer they fell in love with when they heard it at the Third Coast festival in Chicago. (en)
- External Link As the line between technology and humanity becomes blurrier, we wonder, are we becoming more or less human? (en)
- External Link Part Three of our Border Trilogy, in which we hear the story of a woman from Ecuador who died in the Arizona desert. And we ask, what could stop migrants from risking so much? (en)
- External link While working on The Bad Show, producer Pat Walters ran across some recordings that spooked him--partly because they seemed like they had to be a big joke ... and partly because, at the same time, they sounded so deadly serious. In this short, Jad & Robert try to decide how to feel. (en)
- External Link When should we consider someone a threat? Compiled from "Outside Westgate" and "Grumpy Old Terrorists" . (en)
- External link Today, a lady with a bird in her backyard upends our whole sense of what we may have to give up to keep a wild creature wild. (en)
- External Link When Dana Zzyym applied for their first passport in 2014, there was one question they couldn’t answer: male or female? This episode, biological realities and the power of words. (en)
- External link Winners, losers, underdogs -- what can games tell us about who we really are? (en)
- External link We explore some of the outer edges of the power of music by gathering up a band of biblical horn-blowers, paying a midnight visit to a corner of Mississippi where the devil is rumored to grant wishes, and by helping an angsty 18th century composer push some classical musicians to their physical and psychological limits. Compiled from "Stayin' Alive" , "The Walls of Jericho" , "Speedy Beet" , and "Crossroads" . (en)
- External link Pain is a fundamental part of life, and often a very lonely part. Doctors want to understand their patients' pain, and we all want to understand the suffering of our friends, relatives, or spouses. But pinning down another person's hurt is a slippery business. (en)
- External Link We wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. (en)
- External Link The surprising ways that loops steer…and sometimes derail…our lives. (en)
- External link A showdown between a zookeeper and an orangutan named Fu Manchu raises a question: can an animal know what's in your head well enough to manipulate and deceive you? (en)
- External Link Science pushes back against the century-old notion that X equals girl and Y equals boy, and wonders: are we who we think we are? (en)
- Compiled from "Nike, Nature's Revenge and Gunrunners" . (en)
- External link For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear -- it held a vise-grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about venturing into unknown lands. But these days, quicksand can't even scare an 8-year-old. In this short, we try to find out why. (en)
- External link Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? In this short, Jad and Robert talk to an entomologist about the risks, and the rewards, of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes. (en)
- External link A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return to the question of what felines feel when they fall. (en)
- External Link Stories about Gary Hart, K-pop, and the erosion of privacy in the media. Compiled from "I Don't Have to Answer That" and "K-poparazzi" . (en)
- External link This fall, we're hitting the road with our brand-new live show. We're stopping in 20 cities across the US , and we have some exciting news about the special musical guests who are joining us for the tour. (en)
- External Link Jad gives a TED talk about his life as a journalist and how Radiolab has evolved over the years. (en)
- External Link When Robert Mueller released his indictment a few days ago, alleging that 13 Russian nationals colluded to disrupt the 2016 elections, we had a lot of questions. (en)
- External link Eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die. (en)
- External Link On the mountaintop, we go back in time, and across the world - to discover the unlikely connection between Dolly's home and Jad's father Naji. (en)
- External Link This hour we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go. (en)
- External Link More than a million American kids a year get IQ tested, but in the state of California, if your kid is Black, they almost surely won’t be given one. (en)
- External Link If you donate bone marrow, you might save a life… or you might land a starring role in the greatest story ever told. (en)
- External Link In part 2 of Shots Fired, Jad and Robert talk to Ben Montgomery about how communication breakdowns too often lead to violence. (en)
- External link How stochasticity -- a wonderfully smarty-pants word for randomness -- drives our lives, and the patterns we see around us. (en)
- External Link We plunge into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, and upend some myths about falling cats. (en)
- External link From the silent words of a child forming her first thought, to the inner heckler that taunts you when the pressure's on, a look at how the voices in our heads shape us—for better and for worse. Compiled from "Voices in Your Head" , "The Obama Effect, Perhaps." , "What's Up, Doc?" , and "A 4-Track Mind" . (en)
- External link Jad talks to musicians Michael Lowenstern and Zoe Keating about their remixes of Terry Riley's In C. (en)
- External link The healing powers of belief, from the symbolic power of the doctor's lab coat, to the very real stash of opium in the brain. (en)
- External link If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another? (en)
- External Link If a president happened to break a few political norms and decide, in the face of defeat, to fight instead of concede, what would actually happen? Today we choose our own adventure. (en)
- External Link From a bio-safety lab to the woods of Tennessee, we explore the rhythms that shape our work, our lives, and our bodies. (en)
- External Link A series of serendipitous moments leads to a change of heart in one man that eventually changes an entire field of science. (en)
- External Link How important is the way you walk? Well, if you’re a baboon it can flip the entire power structure of your troop on its head. At least when it comes to breakfast. (en)
- External link In this new short, a tree full of blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection. (en)
- External Link Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation? (en)
- External Link Madoff speaks. Investigating the world's largest con with the team behind @Audible_com's #PonziSupernova. (en)
- External link During World War II, something happened that nobody ever talks about. This is a tale of mysterious balloons, cowboy sheriffs, and young children caught up in the winds of war. And silence, the terror of silence. (en)
- External link In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action figures are toys or dolls and sparks a court case about what it means to be human. (en)
- External link Stories about singer who loses her voice and an author caught in a body that never grew up. (en)
- External link Nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs with the power to transcend language, & the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan. (en)
- External link Stories of love and loss in the name of science. (en)
- External Link Two people make a decision that would lead to a legal and moral puzzle about how we balance accountability and forgiveness. (en)
- External Link Stories about Christopher Daniel Gay, Isaac Newton's explaining why the moon does not fall down, how the Voyager probe is about to leave the solar system and about Joe Engressia Jr. and phone phreaking. (en)
- External link What do you do in the face of a monstrous disease with a 100% fatality rate? In this short, a Milwaukee doctor tries to knock death incarnate off its throne. (en)
- External Link Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? To remember? Or even learn? (en)
- External link An interview about ants with entomologist E. O. Wilson. (en)
- External Link TBD (en)
- External Link We enter the Dollyverse. (en)
- External link There are some questions that just don't give in to experiments and data. We take on one of those questions. (en)
- External Link Could a century-old treatment become our best weapon in the fight against Covid-19? (en)
- External link In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years. (en)
- External link Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, & even reveal secrets about us. (en)
- External link From boom bap to EDM, we look at the line between hip-hop and not, and meet a defender of the genre that makes you question... who's in and who's out. (en)
- External Link One of the worst players in the NHL gets voted into the All-Star Game. (en)
- External Link From a piece of the Wright brother's plane to a child’s sugar egg, today: Things! Important things, little things, personal things, things you can hold and things that can take hold of you. This hour, we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go. (en)
- External Link On this episode, we offer a numerical duet - one, an essay about the trick at the center of exponential curves, the other, about all the things we aren’t counting. (en)
- External link Mel Blanc was known as "the man of 1,000 voices," but the actual number may have been closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Barney Rubble -- all Mel. His characters made him one of the most beloved men in America. And in 1961, when a car crash left him in a coma, these characters may have saved him. (en)
- External Link How a diabetic, a cop, and a bottle of orange juice changed the way we police, forever. (en)
- External link John and Zoltan are both blind, but they deal with the world in completely different ways -- one paints vivid pictures in his mind, while the other refuses to picture anything at all. In this short, they argue about the truth of a world they can't see. (en)
- External link Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective. Today on Radiolab, a puzzle. Jad’s brother-in-law wrote a book called 'In The Dust of This Planet'. (en)
- External link The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking. (en)
- External link Radiolab throws a birthday party for Charles Darwin! Robert Krulwich invites three experts to toast the birthday boy. (en)
- External link As a follow-up to our story Los Frikis, we're bringing you a translated version of Radio Ambulante's story on the same subject. (en)
- External Link Can you fit the identity of a whole nation into a dance? Of course not. But we tried anyway. (en)
- External link Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe. (en)
- External Link On this episode, the case that pushed one Supreme Court justice to a nervous breakdown, brought a boiling feud to a head, and changed the course of the Supreme Court forever. (en)
- External Link Despite being cleared for transfer home in 2016, Abdul Latif Nasser is still stuck at Guantanamo. Why? Latif digs for answers, and spoiler: it goes all the way to the top. (en)
- External Link From a duel with the world's deadliest disease to a surprising peek into the way doctors think about death, in this hour Radiolab tries to reckon with the grim reaper. And, in the end, we confront the question at the heart of it all — when the time comes to finally leave, how do we want to go? Compiled from "Rodney Versus Death" , "Stayin' Alive" , and "The Bitter End" . (en)
- External Link What does conservation really means in the 21st century? Compiled from "For the Birds" and "The Rhino Hunter" . (en)
- External link This hour of Radiolab centers around a chilling question: how well can you ever really know the people around you? Compiled from "After Birth" , "Do I Know You?" , "Fu Manchu" , and "14: The Four Groans" . (en)
- External link Some things are simply unknowable, from the pain another person feels to the reasons why they commit horrible acts. In this hour, we meet people who are trying to measure and make sense of things they can’t quite grasp—from the quest to pin down a standard measurement for pain, to a pair of performers who, night after night, step on stage with absolutely no plan. Compiled from "Inside "Ouch!"" , "Killer Empathy" , and "Radiolab Presents: TJ & Dave" . (en)
- External Link A strange symmetry in the minds of two artists, and the one piece of music that connects them. (en)
- External link Stories of unlikely answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. Compiled from "A Flock of Two" , "Strangers in the Mirror" , and "The Bus Stop" . (en)
- External Link Lies, liars, and lie catchers. And the strange power of lying to yourself. (en)
- External Link In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break. (en)
- External link Special bonus of the week! A video inspired by the mathematician, Steve Strogatz. At the age of thirteen, Steve was astonished to find that pendulums and water fountains had a strange relationship that had previously been completely hidden from him. (en)
- External link Explores the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and the human brains as models for leaderless systems. (en)
- External Link Two stories of humans DIY-ing answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. First, a homemade brain-stimulator that may unlock hidden potential. Then, the story of a family that finds an unlikely way to access their silent son's world. Compiled from "9-Volt Nirvana" and "Juicervose" . (en)
- External link From Jonathan Mitchell, a history of the modern shopping mall told through the perspectives of people living in an unnamed city. (en)
- External Link Stories of striving, grasping, tripping, and falling for happiness, perfection, and Bliss. (en)
- External Link Where do you find comfort after the death of a child? Compiled from "Gray's Donation" and "Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR" . (en)
- External link Stories of unintended consequences—from a psychologist who may have helped create a terrorist, to a toxic lake that spawned new life. (en)
- External link Photojournalist Lynsey Addario captured something that happens all the time but few of us get to see, a soldier fatally wounded on the battlefield. (en)
- External Link An award show you’ve never heard of before. (en)
- External link Kohn Ashmore’s voice is arresting. It stopped his friend Andy Mills in his tracks the first time they met. But in this short about the power of friendship and familiarity, Andy explains that Kohn’s voice isn't the most striking thing about him at all. (en)
- External link Buttons are usually small and unimportant. But not always. Sometimes they are a portal to power, freedom, and destruction. Today we thread together tales of taking charge of the little things in life, of fortunes made and lost, and of the ease with which the world can end. (en)
- External Link How do we measure the world around us? Today we size things up: from universal standards for measuring mass, to the social cues that help us understand other people’s behavior. Compiled from "≤ kg" , "The Trust Engineers" , and "Solid as a Rock" . (en)
- External Link Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic. (en)
- External Link The creature with the world’s most complex visual system seems to be terrible at telling colors apart. (en)
- External link Robert ambushes Jad with a question we've all been dying to ask him since he became a father. And we revisit some other ideas from our Morality show to think about a few really big modern-day problems . (en)
- External link We tackle a question we thought was a no-brainer: why do we blink? (en)
- External Link Who are the soccer moms of the 2020 election? We set out to find them. (en)
- External link The modern search for the Fountain of Youth, and personal stories of witnessing death. (en)
- External link This week on the podcast, we continue our meditations on death . We'll throw a new one at you each day, all week long, culminating in a very special treat at the end of the week. (en)
- External link Ross McNutt has a superpower — he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve crimes in a shutter-flash. But should he? (en)
- External Link On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse. (en)
- External link Previously unreleased tape from the vault. (en)
- External Link Meet our team and take a look behind the scenes here at Radiolab. (en)
- External Link Today, a hidden power that is either the cornerstone of our democracy or a trapdoor to anarchy. (en)
- External Link An exploration into our very beginnings, of the first strides we took to become us. (en)
- External Link We explore three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “cruel and unusual.” (en)
- External link Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans . (en)
- External Link David and Dominique have something in common. (en)
- External link A journey to the edge of human limits -- from a bike race that makes the Tour de France look like child’s play, to a mind-stretching memory competition. (en)
- External Link This week, we are presenting a story from NPR foreign correspondent Gregory Warner and his new globe-trotting podcast Rough Translation. (en)
- External link The story of how Jad and Robert met, told onstage at their alma mater, Oberlin College. (en)
- External link Story about giving one's crush a stack of Radiolab CDs. (en)
- External Link In anticipation of Super Bowl LII, we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. Compiled from the "Ghosts of Football Past" segment of "American Football" . (en)
- External link 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. (en)
- External Link This episode we swivel our attention back to you, our listeners, reconnect with some old friends to see how they are doing, and thank everyone for what they've shared with us. (en)
- External link A plum-sized lump of metal takes us from the French Revolution to an underground bunker in Maryland as we try to weigh the way we weigh the world around us. (en)
- External link Two short pieces on sperm that didn't make it into the full-length show. (en)
- External link Communicating across species -- from bringing pets to church, to a rescued whale that may have found a way to say thanks. (en)
- External Link We scour the Atlantic Ocean for an answer to one of life’s slipperiest mysteries. (en)
- External link Scientists' obsession with one particular man - and with the tiny scraps of evidence left in the wake of his death - gives us a surprisingly intimate peek into the life of someone who should've been lost to the ages. (en)
- External link It might seem hyperbole to claim, as many Wagnerites do, that The Ring Cycle is 'The Greatest Work of Art Ever.' But it's permeated our culture from Star Wars to Bugs Bunny to J.R.R. Tolkien. On this Radiolab/WNYC Special, we explore the impact and influence of Wagner's Ring Cycle on the Metropolitan Opera's 2004 Presentation. (en)
- External Link Whether it comes from government spokespeople or celebrity publicists, the phrase “can neither confirm nor deny” is the perfect non-denial denial. (en)
- External Link How far should lawyers go to provide the best defense to the worst people? (en)
- External link They buzz. They bite. And they have killed more people than cancer, war, or heart disease. Here’s the question: If you could wipe mosquitoes off the face of the planet, would you? (en)
- External Link This might be a stupid question, but... (en)
- External Link In 2008, the Supreme Court stepped in to settle our fight over the Second Amendment’s meaning. They did. And they didn’t. (en)
- External Link A mile under the ocean, we get to watch an octopus perform a heroic act of heart and determination. (en)
- External Link Stories from and about the highest court in the land. Compiled from "Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl" and the More Perfect episode "Cruel and Unusual" . (en)
- External Link We decided to shake things up at the show...bear with us. (en)
- External link Robert Krulwich's commencement speech at Caltech. (en)
- External link Writer Ian Frazier made a startling discovery several years ago in eastern Siberia: no one he met there had ever heard of tic tac toe. In this short, Jad and Robert wonder how a game that seems carved into childhood DNA could be completely unknown in some parts of the world. (en)
- External Link A scientist launches a controversial genetic test for intelligence: what does it really tell us? (en)
- External Link Part One of our Border Trilogy, in which we chronicle an unlikely legal showdown between high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and the US Border Patrol. (en)
- External link You may not give a second thought to what the toilet whisks away after you do your business. But we got wondering -- where would we wind up if we thought of flushing as the start, and not the end, of a journey? In this short, we head out to trace the trail of sludge...from Manhattan, to wherever poop leads us. (en)
- External link Traces how the concepts of mind and self have been domain of philosophers, priests, and neurologists. (en)
- External Link On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone tells Jad and Robert about a project they launched to look at the tales we tell when we talk about poverty. (en)
- External Link Today, a king, a clockmaker, and a monk come together to forge a manmade miracle. We tell a five-hundred-year-old legend about robots, death, and a divine deal. (en)
- External Link Historians say the past is a foreign country, but often it feels more like a dream. Today we talk to someone who has mastered the art of navigating the dreamscapes of our past. (en)
- External link A look at four unconventional ways to stay alive. (en)
- External Link In this episode, we look at the things we make—from spoons to microwaves to computers—as an extension of the same evolutionary processes that made us. Compiled from "Dawn of Midi" , "Brown Box" , and "What Does Technology Want?" . (en)
- External link We open up an age old can of worms at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space: which medium is superior -- television or radio? Jad and Robert face off, with This American Life's Ira Glass as referee. (en)
- External Link On this episode of More Perfect, we'll talk about the figurative side door to the Supreme Court that has allowed individuals to influence policy for the many. (en)
- External link From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clock in at just a fraction of an inch, they have evolved a surprising, successful, and rather unsettling strategy of ironclad loyalty, absolute intolerance, and brutal violence. (en)
- External Link What happens when a ragtag bunch of freedom fighters troll their despotic dictator from afar? (en)
- External Link Deep inside the human embryo, a band of nomadic cells embarks on an epic journey, with the future of humanity resting on their microscopic shoulders. (en)
- External link Strangers exchange phone numbers at a singles night and get some advice from a experts on the chemistry of love. (en)
- External Link David Weinberg was stuck. Until he started recording every waking minute of his life. (en)
- External link Lies, liars, and lie catchers. This hour of Radiolab asks if it's possible for anyone to lead a life without deception. (en)
- External Link The surprising ways that loops steer… and sometimes derail… our lives. (en)
- External link Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how could you make another one? (en)
- External link Mother's day is nigh. Sort of. Anyway, without knowing it, you might have already given your mom a pretty lasting gift. But whether it helps or hurts her, or both, is still an open question. In this Radiolab short, Robert updates us on the science of fetal cells -- one of the first topics he covered as an NPR science correspondent. (en)
- External Link Jad tracks an emergency room doctor on the frontlines treating Covid-19. (en)
- External Link How the right words can have the wrong meanings, and the best translations lead us to an understanding that's way deeper than language. (en)
- External link In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie. (en)
- External Link Getting a firm hold on the truth is never as simple as nailing down the facts of a situation. This hour, we go after a series of seemingly simple facts -- facts that offer surprising insight, facts that inspire deeply different stories, and facts that, in the end, might not matter at all. (en)
- External Link From the producers of Radiolab, More Perfect dives into the rarefied world of the Supreme Court. (en)
- External link Zoo director David Hancocks talks about the paradoxes he encounters in the zoo world and his dream for a future zoo. (en)
- External Link Coral fossils, sex orchestras, and spacewalks...all in one episode! Compiled from "The Times They Are a-Changin'" , "The Septendecennial Sing-Along" , and "Dark Side of the Earth" . (en)
- External Link As Candid Camera succeeded, it started to change the way we thought not only of reality television, but also of reality itself. (en)
- External Link We try to contain the stream of photos coming at us in the last week and ask a question about an image that few of us get to see, a soldier fatally wounded on the battlefield. (en)
- External link Humans love to solve problems. This hour, Diagnosis -- our attempt to find out what's wrong, and give it a label. (en)
- External link We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what doctors want done for themselves. (en)
- External link What do frozen horses and a scorching universe have in common? That's what we wanted to know. (en)
- External link From the archives: a visit with Oliver Sacks and the elements he's known and loved. Compiled from "The Wonder of Youth" segment of "Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters" . (en)
- External Link What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes. (en)
- External Link Neil Degrasse Tyson and some new microbiome science help answer the question - when we touch greatness how much of it stays with us? (en)
- External link We plunge into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, and upend some myths about falling cats. (en)
- External link Another meditation on what happens after the moment of death, this time as Shakespeare envisions it. (en)
- External link The connection between the human body and brain and what happens when it breaks.
Guests: Oliver Sacks, Robert Sapolsky, Jonah Lehrer, Antonio Damasio, Christopher Sayles, Steven Solomon, Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Jonathan Cole, Ian Waterman, Paul Broks, Dan Fulgham, Jim Whinnery, Tim Sestak. External link (en)
- External Link There’s a black hole in the middle of the history of life: how did we go from tiny bags of chemicals to the vast menagerie of creatures we see around us? (en)
- External Link Horseshoe crabs harbor a half-billion-year-old secret: a superpower that helped them outlive the dinosaurs. But it hasn’t just been saving their butts, it’s been saving ours too. (en)
- External Link We've all felt it, that irresistible urge to point the finger. But new technologies are complicating age-old moral conundrums about accountability. This hour, we ask what blame does for us -- why do we need it, when isn't it enough, and what happens when we try to push past it with forgiveness and mercy? (en)
- External link Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying, explanation. (en)
- External link In this podcast, Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought and the voice in your head. How did it get there? And what's happening when people hear someone else's voice in their head? (en)
- External link This hour, we question what decides the trajectory of our lives -- individual force of will, or fate? If destiny isn't written in the stars, could it be written in our genes? Kids struggle to resist marshmallows, and their ability to hold out at age 4 turns out to predict how successful they're likely to be the rest of their lives. And an unexpected find in a convent archive uncovers early warning signs for dementia in the writings of 18-year-olds. Compiled from "Mischel’s Marshmallows" , "Secrets of Success" , and "Vanishing Words" . (en)
- External link Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question: why do we sleep? (en)
- External link Is the world full of deep symmetries and ordered pairs? Or do we live in a lopsided universe? This striking video by Everynone plays with our yearning for balance, and reveals how beautiful imperfect matches can be. The video was inspired by our episode Desperately Seeking Symmetry. (en)
- External link A look at the Voyager spacecraft and the Golden Record that it carried into space. (en)
- External Link From medicine to the movies, the horrifying to the holy, and history to the present day -- we're kinda obsessed with blood. This hour, we consider the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins. (en)
- External Link In today’s episode, we meet a young woman from Texas, born and raised, who can’t prove that she exists. (en)
- External link In this new short, we explore luck and fate, both good and bad, with an author and a cartoon character. Compiled from the "Your Future in a Marshmallow" and "Singled Out" segments of "Fate and Fortune" . (en)
- External Link In a flash of heroism and humanity, Oliver Sipple saved a life and became something he never wanted to be. (en)
- External link Highlights from a live Radiolab performance about hearts, driving forces, and the people we love - including a final conversation with Dr. Oliver Sacks. (en)
- External link An unlikely escape story begins in a supermarket, and ends in a boat off the coast of Maine. (en)
- External Link Can IQ tests ever be used ... for good? This episode, we meet a few people who think they can be. (en)
- External Link We shine a light into the dark corners of the internet to see the world from the perspective of both cyber crime victims and perpetrators. (en)
- External link It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour, we try to do just that. (en)
- External Link This Valentine's Day, a mysterious tap tap tapping leads us into a world of sex, death, and head-banging. (en)
- External link In today's short, we get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outbursts...until he meets a bird who can keep him in check. (en)
- External link At the start of this new year we crack open some fossils, peer back into ancient seas, and look up at lunar skies to find that a year is not quite as fixed as we thought it was. (en)
- External Link From the brightest star, to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for covid-19. (en)
- External Link This is a story of identity, making amends and John Smid’s reckoning with his life. (en)
- External link A rare and haunting disorder called Capgras turns loved ones into imposters--and reveals that recognizing people, even the people we know the best, is more about how they make us feel than what we see in front of our eyes. (en)
- External link After hearing our show about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. What follows is what he found. (en)
- External link How a tiny group of social engineers are making our online relationships kindler and gentler, whether we like it or not. (en)
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