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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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Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer
Episode Date: October 9, 2020With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should really have. We tend to t...
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Insomnia Line
Episode Date: September 25, 2020Coronasomnia is a not-so-surprising side-effect of the global pandemic. More and more of us are having trouble falling asleep. We wanted to find a way...
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Episode Date: September 19, 2020We lost a legend. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18th, 2020. She was 87. In honor of her passing we are re-airing the Mor...
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Bringing Gamma Back, Again
Episode Date: September 11, 2020Today, we return to the lab of neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai, which brought us one of our favorite stories from four years ago - about the power of flas...
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Fungus Amungus
Episode Date: September 4, 2020Six years ago, a new infection began popping up in four different hospitals on three different continents, all around the same time. It wasn’t a bacte...
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Translation
Episode Date: August 27, 2020How close can words get you to the truth and feel and force of life? That's the question poking at our ribs this hour, as we wonder how it is that the...
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Lebanon, USA
Episode Date: August 21, 2020This is a story of a road trip. After a particularly traumatic Valentine's Day, Fadi Boukaram was surfing google maps and noticed that there was a tow...
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The Wubi Effect
Episode Date: August 14, 2020When we think of China today, we think of a technological superpower. From Huawei and 5G to TikTok and viral social media, China is stride for stride...
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Dispatches from 1918
Episode Date: July 17, 2020It’s hard to imagine what the world will look like when COVID-19 has passed. So in this episode, we look back to the years after 1918, at the politica...
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The Flag and the Fury
Episode Date: July 13, 2020How do you actually make change in the world? For 126 years, Mississippi has had the Confederate battle flag on their state flag, and they were the la...
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The Third. A TED Talk.
Episode Date: June 26, 2020Jad gives a TED talk about his life as a journalist and how Radiolab has evolved over the years. Here's how TED described it:How do you end a story? H...
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Post No Evil Redux
Episode Date: June 19, 2020Today we revisit our story on Facebook and its rulebook, looking at what’s changed in the past two years and exploring how these rules will impact the...