WNYC's Radio Lab
On Radio Lab, science meets culture and information sounds like music. Each episode of Radio Lab® is an investigation -- a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radio Lab is produced by ...
On Radio Lab, science meets culture and information sounds like music. Each episode of Radio Lab® is an investigation -- a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radio Lab is produced by WNYC public radio. Support the adventure with a donation by pasting the following URL into your browser: http://www.wnyc.org/epledge/radiolab
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Hello
It's tough to make small talk with a stranger—especially when ...
It's tough to make small talk with a stranger—especially when that stranger doesn't speak your language. (And he has a blowhole.)
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Shorts: Happy Birthday Bobby K
For Robert’s birthday we celebrate with some classic Krulwich and ...
For Robert’s birthday we celebrate with some classic Krulwich and a peek into the spirit and sensibility that, in many ways, drives our show.
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Shorts: For the Birds
Today, a lady with a bird in her backyard upends ...
Today, a lady with a bird in her backyard upends our whole sense of what we may have to give up to keep a wild creature wild.
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Galapagos
Today, the strange story of a small group of islands ...
Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? We
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Shorts: 9-Volt Nirvana
Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in ...
Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe.
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Shorts: ≤ kg
A plum-sized lump of metal takes us from the French ...
A plum-sized lump of metal takes us from the French Revolution to an underground bunker in Maryland as we try to weigh the way we weigh the world around us.
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Things
This hour we investigate the objects around us, their power ...
This hour we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go.
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Shorts: The Skull
Today, the story of one little thing that has radically ...
Today, the story of one little thing that has radically changed what we know about humanity’s humble beginnings and the kinds of creatures that were out to get us way back when. Wits University Professor Lee Berger and Dr. Chris Stringer from London’s Na
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Shorts: For the Love of Numbers
It’s hard to think of anything more rational, more logical ...
It’s hard to think of anything more rational, more logical and impersonal than a number. But what if we’re all, universally, also deeply attuned to how numbers … feel? Why 2 is warm, 7 is strong and 11 is downright mystical.
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60 Words
How one sentence -- just 60 words written in the ...
How one sentence -- just 60 words written in the hours after the September 11 attacks -- became the legal foundation for the "war on terror."
