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.
559 episodes transcribedAre new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?
Jad and Robert pit physics against a bible story with this simple question: could a team of trumpeters really bring down the walls of Jericho?
Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought, inner speech, and the voice in our heads.
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn't believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey pl...
One place you absolutely, positively do not want to be if you're a healthy, middle-aged American lobster: trapped in a suburban grocery store in weste...
Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close, the great artist known for his enormous paintings...
In this hour of Radiolab: an unflinching look at the good, bad, and ugly side of tumors.
Music duo Buke and Gass play for us, attempt to describe their genre-bending sound, and talk a bit about what's it like to play out what you don't say...
There’s a common problem faced by Alzheimer's and Dementia patients all over the world: lost in their memories, they sometimes get disoriented, and wa...
How do you know your mother is really your mother? It's simple, right? You look at her, you recognize her, enough said. Well, in this podcast...it may...
In this podcast, a biopsychologist attempts to find an elusive bit of shared space across species lines.
To get this podcast started, Robert ambushes Jad with a question...a question we've all been dying to ask him since June 10th, 2009, when Amil Abumrad...
In this podcast, a story about a mom, a boy, and a home-made helicopter.
