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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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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...
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Birdie in the Cage
Episode Date: June 21, 2024People have been doing the square dance since before the Declaration of Independence. But does that mean it should be THE American folk dance? That qu...
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Aphantasia
Episode Date: June 14, 2024Close your eyes and imagine a red apple. What do you see? Turns out there’s a whole spectrum of answers to that question and Producer Sindhu Gnanasamb...
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Argentine Invasion
Episode Date: May 31, 2024From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle cloc...
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Mixtapes to the Moon
Episode Date: May 24, 2024They promised to change you. They ended up changing all of us. On July 20, 1969 humanity watched as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. It was th...
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Selected Shorts
Episode Date: May 10, 2024A selection of short flights of fact and fancy performed live on stage.Usually we tell true stories at this show, but earlier this spring we were invi...
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Memory and Forgetting
Episode Date: April 26, 2024Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten. The act of recalling in ou...