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Radiolab
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 science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.
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Worst. Year. Ever.
Episode Date: January 7, 2022What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth? We make the case for 536 AD, which set off a cascade of catastrophes that is almost too horribl...
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Vanishing Words
Episode Date: December 17, 2021When Alana Casanova-Burgess set out to make a podcast series about Puerto Rico, she struggled with what to call it. Until one word came to mind, a wor...
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Return of Alpha Gal
Episode Date: December 10, 2021Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops - with a side of genetic modification. Several years a...
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Animal Minds
Episode Date: November 26, 2021In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication. When we gaze into the eyes of a wild animal, or even a beloved pet, can we ever real...
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Mixtape: Help?
Episode Date: November 19, 2021In tape five, three stories: first, a tale of how the cassette tape supercharged the self-help industry. Second, cassettes filled with history make an...
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Mixtape: Cassetternet
Episode Date: November 12, 2021In 1983, Simon Goodwin had a strange thought. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software over the radio? If so, could listeners record it off...
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Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Episode Date: November 5, 2021As the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in their North Vietnamese enemy. In 1964, they found...
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Mixtape: Jack and Bing
Episode Date: October 29, 2021In 1946 Bing Crosby was the king of media. He was the movie star, the pop star and his radio show was reaching a third of American living rooms each w...
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Mixtape: Dakou
Episode Date: October 22, 2021Through the 1980s, the vast majority of people in China had never heard western music, save for John Denver, the Carpenters, and a few other artists i...
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Of Bombs and Butterflies
Episode Date: October 15, 2021Ecologist Nick Haddad was sitting in his new office at North Carolina State University when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was... The U....
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Oliver Sipple
Episode Date: October 1, 2021One morning, Oliver Sipple went out for a walk. A couple hours later, to his own surprise, he saved the life of the President of the United States. Bu...
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HEAVY METAL
Episode Date: September 24, 2021Today we have a story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. Repo...
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In the Running
Episode Date: September 17, 2021Diane 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 gav...
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60 Words, 20 Years
Episode Date: September 10, 2021It has now been 20 years since September 11th, 2001. So we’re bringing you a Peabody Award-winning story from our archives about one sentence, written...
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The Unsilencing
Episode Date: August 26, 2021Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, even psoriasis — these are diseases in which the body begins to attack itself, and they all have one...
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Everybody’s Got One
Episode Date: August 20, 2021We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. But this story isn’...
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Gonads: Dutee
Episode Date: August 6, 2021In 2014, India’s Dutee Chand was a rising female track and field star, crushing national records. But then, that summer, something unexpected happened...
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The Queen of Dying
Episode Date: July 23, 2021If you’ve ever lost someone, or watched a medical drama in the last 15 years, you’ve probably heard of The Five Stages of Grief. They’re sort of the w...