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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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Hello, My Name Is
Episode Date: April 29, 2022As a species, we’re obsessed with names. They’re one of the first labels we get as kids. We name and rename absolutely everything around us. And these...
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The Other Latif: Cuba-ish
Episode Date: April 22, 2022Almost exactly twenty years ago, detainee 244 got transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Captured by American forces at the battle Tora Bora five months previ...
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In the Dust of This Planet
Episode Date: April 8, 2022Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … In this episode, first aired in 2014, but maybe even more relevant today, things get weird as we explore t...
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Inheritance
Episode Date: April 1, 2022Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Or is it? In this episode, originally aired in 2012, we put nature and nurture on a coll...
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The Right Stuff
Episode Date: March 25, 2022Since the beginning of the space program, we’ve always expected astronauts to be fully abled athletic overachievers who are one-part science-geek, two...
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The Helen Keller Exorcism
Episode Date: March 11, 2022Fantasy writer Elsa Sjunneson has been haunted by Helen Keller for nearly her entire life. Like Helen, Elsa is Deafblind, and growing up she was const...
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Life in a Barrel
Episode Date: March 4, 2022This week, we flip the Disney story of life on its head thanks to a barrel of seawater, a 1970s era computer, and underwater geysers. It’s the chaos o...
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The Wordless Place
Episode Date: February 18, 2022This week, we turn to an expert who tromps the wilds of wordlessness. Lulu’s young son. In this essay, originally published for The Paris Review under...
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Forests on Forests
Episode Date: February 4, 2022For much of history, tree canopies were pretty much completely ignored by science. It was as if researchers said collectively, "It's just going to be...
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The First Radiolab
Episode Date: January 28, 2022Jad started Radiolab roughly 20 years ago. And now he is stepping aside from hosting and producing the show to replenish, to think, to rock in his cha...
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The 11th: A Letter From George
Episode Date: January 21, 2022Last week, Lulu heard an interview that trapped her in her car. She decided to play it for Latif. The interview – originally from a podcast called The...
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Worst. Year. Ever.
Episode Date: January 7, 2022What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth? We make the case for 536 AD, which set off a cascade of catastrophes that is almost too horribl...
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Vanishing Words
Episode Date: December 17, 2021When Alana Casanova-Burgess set out to make a podcast series about Puerto Rico, she struggled with what to call it. Until one word came to mind, a wor...