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Radiolab PodcastsRadiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow. Bring your... Podcast, English, New York City, USA |
| Listen now | Shorts: Colors Sneak Peek Just before the curtain went up on our live show in Los Angeles, Jad and Robert carved out a little stage time for a sneak peek at next week's Colors episode. Thursday, 17-May-12 03:53 BST |
| Listen now | Games Winners, losers, underdogs--what can games tell us about who we really are? Thursday, 17-May-12 03:53 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Wake Up and Dream In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Chris And Lisa Chris had a crush on Lisa. But how to woo her? He met her on a park bench in Chicago, handed her a stack of CD's, and sent her off on an extremely specific mission. Did it work? Find out on this week's podcast. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Earworms First, we asked you to tell us what song gets stuck in your head. Then, we asked you how you got it out. Finally, we made a podcast. Thank you to everyone who called in, shared their secret techniques, and sang without shame. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Quantum Cello Jad and cellist Zoe Keating discuss the physics (if not metaphysics) of looping sound, and how to use a 17th century instrument to make avant-garde electronic music. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Radiolab Presents: 99% Invisible Roman Mars loves to spotlight the seams and joints that make up the world around us. He's the host of an irresistible podcast called 99% Invisible--a series of tiny radio stories that provoke enormous questions. Roman joins Jad and Robert to play a... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Making the Hippo Dance We play some never-released tape from the vault, and reveal a bit about what techniques we used to try and make it sing. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Mutant Rights In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action figures are toys or dolls and sparks a court case about what it means to be human. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Crossroads In this short, we go looking for the devil, and find ourselves tangled in a web of details surrounding one of the most haunting figures in music--a legendary guitarist whose shadowy life spawned a legend so powerful, it's still being repeated...even... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Fetal Consequences Mother's day is nigh. Sort of. Anyway, without knowing it, you might have already given your mom a pretty lasting gift. But whether it helps or hurts her, or both, is still an open question. In this Radiolab short, Robert updates us on the science of... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Mortality Some scientists claim that aging is a disease that can be cured. On this hour of Radiolab, the modern search for the fountain of youth, and personal stories of witnessing death: the death of a cell, the death of a loved one, and the aging of a society. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: The (Multi) Universe(s) Robert and Brian Greene discuss what's beyond the horizon of our universe, what you might wear in infinite universes with finite pairs of designer shoes, and why the Universe and swiss cheese have more in common than you think. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: City X This week, a piece from one of our favorite radio-makers, Jonathan Mitchell. 'City X' is a history of the modern shopping mall through perspectives of people living in a real, yet unnamed, city. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Sleepless in South Sudan Carl Zimmer is one of our go-to guys when we need help untangling a complicated scientific idea. But in this short, he unravels something much more personal. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | The Bad Show Cruelty, violence, badness... This episode of Radiolab, we wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Killer Empathy Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? In this short, Jad and Robert talk to an entomologist about the risks, and... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Escape! The walls are closing in, you've got no way out... and then, suddenly, you escape! This hour, stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Laughter This hour of Radiolab teases out stories of laughter--from a baby’s crib, to a rat’s cage, to a remote village in Tanzania that was struck by a laughing epidemic 45 years ago. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Guts This hour, we dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? And what can the rumblings deep in our bellies tell us about ourselves? Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Slow Kohn Ashmore’s voice is arresting. It stopped his friend Andy Mills in his tracks the first time they met. But in this short about the power of friendship and familiarity, Andy explains that Kohn’s voice isn't the most striking thing about him at all. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Jad and Robert: The Early Years Ever wonder how Jad and Robert met? They tell their tale on stage at Oberlin College, and talk about how they started tinkering around with tape to come up with the Radiolab you know today. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | War of the Worlds In 1938, Orson Welles produced a radio play that sounded an awful lot like a news report about Martians invading New Jersey. On this hour of Radiolab: deconstructing “The War of the Worlds,” and the power of mass media to create panic. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Our Podcast comes in all shapes and sizes Jad plays one of his favorite pieces of all time, 'IF' by Sherre DeLys. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Pop Music This hour of Radiolab, pop music's pull: nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs that transcend language, and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Death Mask Near the end of the 19th century, a mysterious young woman with a beguiling smile turned up in Paris. She became a huge sensation. She also happened to be dead. You'd probably recognize her face yourself. You might have even touched it. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: The Turing Problem Alan Turing's mental leaps about machines and computers were some of the most innovative ideas of the 20th century. But the world wasn't kind to him. In this short, Robert wonders how Turing's personal life shaped his understanding of mechanical minds... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Who Am I? The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. But in this hour of Radiolab, neurologists lead the charge. We reflect on the illusion of selfhood, contemplate the evolution of consciousness, and meet a woman who one day... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | (So-Called) Life The uneasy marriage of biology and engineering raises big questions about the nature of life. In this hour, Radiolab journeys to the first billion years of life on Earth, looks at how modern engineers tinker with living things, and meets a woman... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Patient Zero The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center—someone who sets things in motion and holds the key to how the story unfolds. In epidemiology, this central character is known as Patient Zero—the case at the heart of an outbreak. This... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Open Outcry Jad presents a piece by one of his favorite producers: Ben Rubin. This audio portrait, called 'Open Outcry,' visits the trading floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, with its hundreds of traders shouting unintelligible phonic abbreviations and... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Tell Me A Story Robert Krulwich's commencement speech at California Institute of Technology gets at the heart of what we do here at Radiolab. It's a treat to hear his passion. We enjoyed it. And we thought you might too. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: A War We Need Every day, every moment, an epic battle is raging across the globe. It's happening in the ocean. And the evidence is both highly visible and totally hidden, depending on your perspective. In this short, the tale of an arms race involving trillions of... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Shorts: Sperm Tales Two short pieces on sperm that hint at the new ideas and amazing stories we came across once we started following the trail of this wriggly little cell. Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | Stress Stress may save your life if you're being chased by a tiger. But if you're stuck in traffic, it may be more likely to make you sick. This hour of Radiolab, stories of stress--from a singer who loses her voice, to an author caught in a body that never... Wednesday, 16-May-12 21:44 BST |
| Listen now | The Ring and I It might seem hyperbole to claim, as many Wagnerites do, that The Ring Cycle is 'The Greatest Work of Art Ever.' But it's permeated our culture from Star Wars to Bugs Bunny to J.R.R. Tolkien. On this Radiolab/WNYC Special, we explore the impact and... Monday, 13-Feb-12 20:53 GMT |
| Listen now | Shorts: This is Your Brain On Love Jad turns to science to help strangers fall in love...or at least exchange a few phone numbers...as the host of a Singles Night. And he gets some advice from a few experts on the chemistry of a 'brain on love.' Monday, 23-Jan-12 12:40 GMT |
| Listen now | Beyond Time This hour of Radiolab: fighting the inevitable march of time. We meet a scientist and his particle accelerator, an artist, and a whole cast of characters in the Mojave Desert, where geologic time flows like a frozen hourglass. Monday, 16-Jan-12 04:52 GMT |
| Listen now | Detective Stories Digging up the past leads to some very unexpected finds. This hour, Radiolab plays detective and goes sleuthing in some rather unusual places: an ancient trash dump, the side of the highway, and in the blood of millions of Asians. Wednesday, 04-Jan-12 14:22 GMT |
| Listen now | Shorts: Wordless Music An excerpt from Wordless Music on WNYC, a 4-part music program hosted by Jad, exploring the boundaries between classical and pop music. Jad waxes googly-eyed fan when he gets to talk about one of his favorite bands, Stars of the Lid. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Morality For thousands of years philosophers have debated the essence of morality. Now, neuroscientists may have answers. This hour of Radiolab, stories of chimps sharing, human toddlers fighting, and 4th graders playing slumlords. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Sleep Sleep is one of science's greatest mysteries. This hour of Radiolab, we look for answers in iguanas who doze with one eye open, new parents in the throes of sleep deprivation, and rats who may be dreaming. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Shorts: Making Radiolab In spring of 2006, Jad and Robert took the stage at the SoHo Apple Store to talk about the making of Radiolab. Jad geeks out on digital sound editing, and Robert raises editorial questions. And film editor joins them to Walter Murch weigh in on... Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Zoos Blood-thirsty Romans, frozen carcasses, wild jaguars, and a question: how do you build a better cage? This hour of Radiolab, we head to the zoo. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Space Capsules How would you describe life on Earth to an alien? In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched into space. And with it, went the Golden Record-- a sort of time capsule, a collection of sounds and images that would describe life on Earth to whomever or... Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Memory and Forgetting Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour of Radiolab: implanting false memories in loved ones, and erasing painful memories by simply swallowing a pill. Plus: the story of a man with the worst case of amnesia ever documented. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Shorts: Salle Des Departs Imagine that you're a composer. Imagine getting the commission to write a song that will allow family members to face the death of a loved one. David Lang had to do just that when a hospital in Garches, France, asked him to write music for their... Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Contact This week, a look at the different ways that people connect to each other, and how they act once they’re together. NOTE: This episode contains EXPLICIT language about sex. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Emergence What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form amazingly complicated societies. This hour of Radiolab: a look at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our brains. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Space This hour of Radiolab, we ponder our insignificant place in the universe. We boldly go after stories of optimism, narcissism, and cynicism--stories all about Outer Space. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Musical Language This hour of Radiolab: we explore the line between music and language, and turn to physics and biochemistry to ask how sound becomes feeling. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
| Listen now | The Wright Brothers In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright managed to coax their spruce biplane off the North Carolina sand for twelve seconds, and those twelve seconds started a revolution in flight. We examine the human desire to fly, and how getting flight changed us. Monday, 12-Dec-11 14:21 GMT |
