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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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  • #711
    Friday · 1 hr 3 min

    23 Weeks 6 Days

    A tiny baby, born at 23 Weeks and 6 days—roughly halfway to full term. And a whole universe of medical and moral questions.

  • #710
    September 4 · 58 min

    60 Words

    It’s been 25 years since 9/11. Today we talk about the 60 words that ushered in everything that came after.

  • #708
    August 21 · 51 min

    Patient Zero

    The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center, Patient Zero. We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.

  • #706
    August 7 · 36 min

    Red Herring

    A deep-sea Cold War mystery with subs and bombs and science.

  • #705
    July 31 · 1 hr 17 min

    The Shoe Thrower

    The world around you is falling apart, and no one is listening. How far do you go to be heard?

  • #704
    July 24 · 55 min

    Return of Alpha Gal

    Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops - with a side of genetic modification.

  • #703
    July 17 · 29 min

    Neither Confirm Nor Deny

    Whether it comes from government spokespeople or celebrity publicists, the phrase “can neither confirm nor deny” is the perfect non-denial denial.

  • #702
    July 10 · 37 min

    The Holy Shiver

    What your body knows that your brain doesn’t … yet.

  • #701
    July 3 · 40 min

    Atomic Artifacts

    America represents many different things to many different people. What if you could only choose one thing, one physical object, to represent it all?

  • #700
    June 26 · 1 hr 13 min

    The Gondolier

    What happens when doing what you love means giving up who you really are?

  • #697
    June 12 · 55 min

    On the Media: American Emergency

    A little while back, our friends over at On the Media released a gripping and immersive reporting series about FEMA, the agency that is supposed to be there for all of us in the wake of disaster. In American Emergency (https://zpr.io/MtrUmJU3yEMW), OTM investigates how the agency tasked with saving America became distrusted, despised… and defunded.Today we talk to On the Media co-host Micah Loewinger about how this project came out, what reporting went into making it happen, and play a couple of

  • #696
    June 5 · 1 hr 3 min

    Oliver Sipple

    One morning, Oliver Sipple went out for a walk. A couple hours later, to his own surprise, he saved the life of the President of the United States. In a story we reported back in 2017, we explain how in the days that followed, Sipple’s split-second act of heroism turned into a rationale for making his personal life into political opportunity. What happens next makes us wonder what a moment, or a movement, or a whole society can demand of one person. And how much is too much? Through newly une

  • #695
    May 29 · 36 min

    This American Roach

    A couple summers ago, Radiolab reporter Alex Neason got out of the shower and almost stepped on her worst nightmare: an American Cockroach. It was flipped onto its back, struggling, and for a split second, Alex swears she felt the spiny tickle of its legs on the underside of her bare foot. And, like every other time she has come into contact with a roach, this sent her into a debilitating spiral of fear, anger, and disgust. This week, Alex tries to understand what might be behind her fear, in th

  • #694
    May 22 · 1 hr 11 min

    Worth

    This episode makes three earnest, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. We figure out the dollar value for an accidental death, another day of life, and the work of bats and bees as we try to keep our careful calculations from falling apart in the face of the realities of life, and love, and loss. In this story you’ll hear references to some of the issues that were on our minds when it first came out in 2014: wars in the middle east, drug costs and health care practices

  • #693
    May 15 · 46 min

    Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

    For most of human history, people went about their daily lives with a worm or two (or fifty) in their guts. Only in the past century, with pharmaceuticals and sanitation practices, have we made significant strides towards deworming the whole of humanity. And that’s typically been thought of as a good thing, because having too many worms in your body can–quite literally–suck the life out of you. But is it possible to have… too few worms? Science wonders if deworming ourselves has actually led to

  • #692
    May 8 · 1 hr 6 min

    The Bad Show

    With all of the black-and-white moralizing in our world today, we decided to bring back an old show from 2011 about the little bit of bad that's in all of us...and the little bit of really, really bad that's in some of us. Cruelty, violence, badness... in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. We take a look at one particular fantasy lurking behind these numbers, and wonder what this shadow world might tell us abou

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