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Colors Sneak Peek
15 mei 2012 · 10 min
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. Lees meer
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Fetal Consequences
1 mei 2012 · 19 min
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 fetal cells -- one of the first topics he covered as an NPR science correspondent. Lees meer
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Crossroads
17 april 2012 · 29 min
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 by fans who don't believe a word of it. Lees meer
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Guts
2 april 2012 · 55 min
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? Lees meer
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The Turing Problem
20 maart 2012 · 23 min
100 years ago this year, the man who first conceived of the computer age was born. His name was Alan Turing. He was also a math genius, a hero of World War II and he is widely considered to be the father of artificial intelligence. But the world wasn't kind to Alan Turing. In 1952, he was arrested and convicted under a British law that prohibited "acts of gross indecency between men, in public or private." Lees meer
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A War We Need
6 maart 2012 · 11 min
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 sea creatures--and why their struggle is vital to our survival. Lees meer
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Escape!
20 februari 2012 · 1 uur 6 min
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. Lees meer
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Killer Empathy
7 februari 2012 · 18 min
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 the rewards, of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes. Lees meer
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Wake Up and Dream
24 januari 2012 · 17 min
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. Lees meer
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The Bad Show
9 januari 2012 · 1 uur 5 min
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. Lees meer
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Mutant Rights
22 december 2011 · 16 min
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. Lees meer
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Radiolab Presents: 99% Invisible
13 december 2011 · 25 min
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 few favorites, and to chat about the hidden language of design that shapes our lives--from sound effects to stuff that’s more ... concrete. Lees meer
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Death Mask
28 november 2011 · 17 min
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. Lees meer
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Patient Zero
14 november 2011 · 1 uur 14 min
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 hour, Radiolab hunts for Patient Zeroes from all over the map. Lees meer
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Sleepless in South Sudan
1 november 2011 · 23 min
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. Lees meer
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Slow
19 oktober 2011 · 19 min
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. Lees meer
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Loops
4 oktober 2011 · 1 uur 2 min
Our lives are filled with loops that hurt us, heal us, make us laugh, and, sometimes, leave us wanting more. This hour, Radiolab investigates the strange things that emerge when something happens, then happens again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and… well, again. Lees meer
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Loop the Loop
21 september 2011 · 16 min
For most of human history, flight was an impossible dream. In this short, the dizzying rise and fall of a pilot whose aeronautic feats changed aviation forever and turned chancy stunts into acrobatic mastery. Lees meer
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Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom
7 september 2011 · 14 min
Writer Ian Frazier made a startling discovery several years ago in eastern Siberia: no one he met there had ever heard of tic tac toe. In this short, Jad and Robert wonder how a game that seems carved into childhood DNA could be completely unknown in some parts of the world. Lees meer
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Games
23 augustus 2011 · 1 uur 16 min
A good game--whether it's a pro football playoff, or a family showdown on the kitchen table--can make you feel, at least for a little while, like your whole life hangs in the balance. This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert wonder why we get so invested in something so trivial. What is it about games that make them feel so pivotal? Lees meer
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Damn It, Basal Ganglia
10 augustus 2011 · 12 min
The basal ganglia is a core part of the brain, deep inside your skull, that helps control movement. Unless something upsets the chain of command. In this short, Jad and Robert meet a young researcher who was studying what happens when the basal ganglia gets short-circuited in mice...until one fateful day, when things got really, really weird. Lees meer
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A 4-Track Mind
27 juli 2011 · 19 min
In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible. Lees meer
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REBROADCAST: Detective Stories
12 juli 2011 · 59 min
We're celebrating summer with a classic episode of Radiolab--full of mystery, intrigue...and a goat standing on a cow. We haven't actually tried listening to it around a campfire, but we're betting it would totally work. See you in two weeks with a new short! Lees meer
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Curious Sounds: A Radiolab Concert
28 juni 2011 · 46 min
In this short, Jad presents the electrifying sounds of three mind-bending musical acts: Brooklyn duo Buke & Gass, drummer Glenn Kotche of Wilco, and the one-and-only Reggie Watts. Their performances were recorded live at our Curious Sounds concert earlier this month in NYC. Lees meer
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Talking to Machines
31 mei 2011 · 1 uur 4 min
This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the line. Lees meer
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Dogs Gone Wild
18 mei 2011 · 19 min
In this short, a family dog disappears into the woods...and the mystery of what happened to him raises a big question about what it means to be wild. Lees meer
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Cosmic Habituation
4 mei 2011 · 16 min
In this short, Jonathan Schooler tells us about a discovery that launched his career and led to a puzzle that has haunted him ever since. Lees meer
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Desperately Seeking Symmetry
18 april 2011 · 57 min
This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Lees meer
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Pass the Science
23 maart 2011 · 14 min
Richard Holmes went to Cambridge University intending to study the lives of poets. Until a dueling mathematician, and a dinner conversation composed entirely of gestures, changed his mind. Lees meer
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Help!
8 maart 2011 · 55 min
What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you? This hour, Radiolab looks for ways to gain the upper hand over those forces inside us--from unhealthy urges, to creative insights--that seem to have a mind of their own. Lees meer
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A Flock of Two
23 februari 2011 · 17 min
In today's short, we get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outbursts...until he meets a bird who can keep him in check. Lees meer
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Radiolab Presents: The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
9 februari 2011 · 21 min
This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece from across the pond--a piece about soccer they fell in love with when they heard it at the Third Coast festival in Chicago. Lees meer
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Lost & Found
25 januari 2011 · 57 min
In this episode, we steer our way through a series of stories about getting lost, and ask how our brains, and our hearts, help us find our way back home. Lees meer
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The Universe Knows My Name
11 januari 2011 · 17 min
In this new short, we explore luck and fate, both good and bad, with an author and a cartoon character. Lees meer
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Blood Buddies
28 december 2010 · 14 min
In this new short, a tree full of blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection. Lees meer
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The Good Show
14 december 2010 · 1 uur 1 min
In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another? Lees meer
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Gravitational Anarchy
29 november 2010 · 23 min
A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return to the question of what felines feel when they fall. Lees meer
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What Does Technology Want?
16 november 2010 · 24 min
Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature? Lees meer
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Wild Talk
18 oktober 2010 · 20 min
In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie. Lees meer
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Cities
8 oktober 2010 · 57 min
In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick. Lees meer
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The Walls of Jericho
4 oktober 2010 · 15 min
Jad and Robert pit physics against a bible story with this simple question: could a team of trumpeters really bring down the walls of Jericho? Lees meer
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Voices in Your Head
8 september 2010 · 13 min
Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought, inner speech, and the voice in our heads. Lees meer
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Words
9 augustus 2010 · 57 min
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But this hour, we try to do just that. Lees meer
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Secrets of Success
27 juli 2010 · 25 min
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn't believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey players or billionaire software giants. In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation between Robert and Malcolm recorded at the 92nd St Y. Lees meer
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The Luckiest Lobster
13 juli 2010 · 13 min
One place you absolutely, positively do not want to be if you're a healthy, middle-aged American lobster: trapped in a suburban grocery store in western Pennsylvania. But that's where this week's podcast begins. Lees meer
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Oops
28 juni 2010 · 57 min
Oops. In this hour of Radiolab, stories of unintended consequences. Lees meer
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Strangers in the Mirror
16 juni 2010 · 26 min
Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close, the great artist known for his enormous paintings of ... that's right, faces. Lees meer
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Famous Tumors
17 mei 2010 · 57 min
In this hour of Radiolab: an unflinching look at the good, bad, and ugly side of tumors. Lees meer
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Vanishing Words
5 mei 2010 · 16 min
Agatha Christie's clever detective novels may reveal more about the inner workings of the human mind than she intended. In this podcast, a look at what scientists uncover when they treat words like data. Lees meer
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The Loudest Miniature Fuzz
21 april 2010 · 15 min
Music duo Buke and Gass play for us, attempt to describe their genre-bending sound, and talk a bit about what's it like to play out what you don't say in this podcast. Lees meer
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