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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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The Ecstasy of an Open Brain
Episode Date: November 8, 2024As we grow up, there are little windows of time when we can learn very, very fast, and very, very deeply. Scientists call these moments, critical peri...
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The Unpopular Vote
Episode Date: October 25, 2024As the US Presidential Election nears, Radiolab covers the closest we ever came to abolishing the Electoral College.In the 1960s, then-President Lyndo...
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Tweak the Vote
Episode Date: October 18, 2024Back in 2018, when this episode first aired, there was a feeling that democracy was on the ropes. In the United States and abroad, citizens of democr...
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Why Don't Sex Scandals Matter Anymore?
Episode Date: October 11, 2024In 1987, Gary Hart was a young charismatic Democrat, poised to win his party’s nomination and possibly the presidency. Many of us know the story of wh...
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Terrestrials: Stumpisode
Episode Date: October 4, 2024As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. Co-host Lulu Miller is back with another season of her hit spinoff show Terrestr...
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A Little Pompeiian Fish Sauce Goes a Long Way
Episode Date: September 20, 2024Today we follow a sleuth who has spent over a decade working to solve an epic mystery hiding in plain historical sight: did anyone survive the eruptio...
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The Times They Are a-Changin'
Episode Date: September 13, 2024This episode first aired back in December of 2013, and at the start of that new year, the team was cracking open fossils, peering back into ancient se...
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Big Little Questions
Episode Date: August 30, 2024First aired back in 2017, here’s a show of questions and, sometimes, answers. Cause, we get a lot of questions. Like, A LOT of questions. Tiny questio...
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Uneasy as ABC
Episode Date: August 23, 2024February 1976. A flight out of California turned catastrophic when it crashed into a farm in rural Nebraska. What happened that night at the local hos...
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More Perfect: The Gun Show
Episode Date: August 16, 2024Given that we’re all gearing up for the Presidential race, and how gun rights and regulations are almost always centerstage during these times. Today,...
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Up in Smoke
Episode Date: August 9, 2024Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call — the hospital she works at is having an outbreak of unknown origin, in the middle of the worst wildfir...
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Terrestrials: The Trio
Episode Date: July 26, 2024High above the banks of the Mississippi river, a nest holds the secret life of one of America’s most patriotic creatures. Their story puzzles scientis...
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How to Save a Life
Episode Date: July 12, 2024We get it… the world feels too bleak and too big for you to make a difference. But there is one thing - one simple tangible thing - you can do to make...
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Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks
Episode Date: July 5, 2024First aired back in 2013, we originally released this episode to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of our favorite human beings, Oliver Sacks. To cel...
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The Alford Plea
Episode Date: June 28, 2024In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists...