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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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No-Touch Abortion
Episode Date: October 14, 2022When the Dobbs decision went down, ER doctor Avir Mitra started to prepare for the worst — botched, at-home abortions that would land pregnant people...
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The Theater of David Byrne's Mind
Episode Date: October 7, 2022It all started when the rockstar David Byrne did a Freaky-Friday-like body-swap with a Barbie Doll. That’s what inspired him — along with his collabor...
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Playing God
Episode Date: September 30, 2022When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the name...
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Terrestrials: The Mastermind
Episode Date: September 23, 2022Lulu Miller, intrepid host and fearless mother of two, went off on her own and put together a little something for kids. All kids: hers, yours, and th...
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Quicksaaaand!
Episode Date: September 16, 2022For 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 vent...
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40,000 Recipes for Murder
Episode Date: September 9, 2022Two scientists realize that the very same AI technology they have developed to discover medicines for rare diseases can also discover the most potent...
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Rodney v. Death
Episode Date: September 2, 2022In the fall of 2004, Jeanna Giese checked into the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin with a set of puzzling symptoms... and her condition was deteriora...
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9-Volt Nirvana
Episode Date: August 19, 2022Learn 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? Mayb...
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Infinities
Episode Date: August 12, 2022In August 2018, Boen Wang was at a work retreat for a new job. Surrounded by mosquitoes and swampland in a tiny campsite in West Virginia, Boen’s mind...
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The Humpback and the Killer
Episode Date: July 29, 2022Killer whales — orcas — eat all sorts of animals, including humpback calves. But one day, biologists saw a group of humpback whales trying to stop som...
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You v. You
Episode Date: July 22, 2022This episode, originally aired more than a decade ago, attempts to answer one question: how do you win against your worst impulses? Zelda Gamson tried...
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The Gatekeeper
Episode Date: July 15, 2022This week, Reporter Peter Smith and Senior Producer Matt Kielty tell the story of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that set the standard for scientific...
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Baby Blue Blood Drive
Episode Date: July 8, 2022This is an episode that first aired in 2018 and then again in the thick of the pandemic in 2020. Why? Because though Horseshoe crabs are not much to l...
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My Thymus, Myself
Episode Date: July 1, 2022Today, we go to a spot that may be one of the most philosophical places in the universe: the thymus, an organ that knows what is you, and what is not...
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No Special Duty
Episode Date: June 17, 2022Since the massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, people across the world began to ask versions of one question: why did p...
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Neanderthal's Revenge
Episode Date: June 10, 2022A few months ago, co-Host Latif Nasser, who was otherwise healthy, saw blood in his poop. It was the start of a medical journey that made him not only...