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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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Seneca, Nebraska
Episode Date: October 12, 2016Back in 2014 the town of Seneca, Nebraska was deeply divided. How divided? They were so fed up with each other that some citizens began circulating a...
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The Primitive Streak
Episode Date: September 23, 2016Last May, two research groups announced a breakthrough: they each grew human embryos, in the lab, longer than ever before. In doing so, they witnessed...
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Update: Eye In the Sky
Episode Date: September 13, 2016An update on Ross McNutt and his superpower — he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve crimes in a shutter-flash. But sh...
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The Girl Who Doesn't Exist
Episode Date: August 29, 2016In today’s episode, we meet a young woman from Texas, born and raised, who can’t prove that she exists. Alecia Faith Pennington was born at home, home...
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From Tree to Shining Tree
Episode Date: July 30, 2016A 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 comp...
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David and the Wire
Episode Date: July 12, 2016David Weinberg was stuck. He had been kicked out of college, was cleaning toilets by day, delivering pizzas by night and spending his weekends in jail...
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Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Imperfect Plaintiffs
Episode Date: June 28, 2016On this episode, we visit Edward Blum, a 64-year-old “legal entrepreneur” and former stockbroker who has become something of a Supreme Court matchmake...
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Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Political Thicket
Episode Date: June 10, 2016The question of how much power the Supreme Court should possess has divided justices over time. But the issue was perhaps never more hotly debated tha...
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The Buried Bodies Case
Episode Date: June 3, 2016In 1973, a massive manhunt in New York's Adirondack Mountains ended when police captured a man named Robert Garrow. And that’s when this story really...
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Bigger Than Bacon
Episode Date: May 10, 2016Today's story is a mystery, shockingly hot, and vanishingly tiny. It starts with a sound, rising like a mist from the marsh, around a dock in South C...
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Update: 23 Weeks 6 Days
Episode Date: March 23, 2016An update on Juniper French, a tiny baby, born at 23 Weeks and 6 days -- roughly halfway to full term. And a whole universe of medical and moral quest...
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K-poparazzi
Episode Date: February 24, 2016In 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 mor...
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Hard Knock Life
Episode Date: February 12, 2016This Valentine's Day, a mysterious tap tap tapping leads us into a world of sex, death, and head-banging. Biologist Dave Goulson introduces us to the...
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I Don't Have To Answer That
Episode Date: January 30, 2016Roosevelt, Kennedy, Eisenhower … they all got a pass. But today we peer back at the moment when poking into the private lives of political figures bec...
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The Cathedral
Episode Date: December 28, 2015Ryan and Amy Green were facing the unfaceable: their youngest son, Joel was diagnosed with terminal cancer after his first birthday. Producer Sruthi P...
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Update: New Normal?
Episode Date: October 19, 2015An update: Peacenik baboons, a man in a dress and cuddly tame foxes. Stories of adaptation, and reframing ideas about normalcy. 3 stories where choice...