Radiolab
On Radiolab, science meets culture and information sounds like music. Each episode of Radiolab® is an investigation -- a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab
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Shorts: The Septendecennial Sing-Along
Every 17 years, a deafening sex orchestra hits the East ...
Every 17 years, a deafening sex orchestra hits the East Coast -- billions and billions of cicadas crawl out of the ground, sing their hearts out, then mate and die. In this short, Jad and Robert talk to a man who gets inside that noise to dissect its mea
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23 Weeks 6 Days
When Kelley Benham and her husband Tom French finally got ...
When Kelley Benham and her husband Tom French finally got pregnant, after many attempts and a good deal of technological help, everything was perfect. Until it wasn't. Their story raises questions that, until recently, no parent had to face… and that are
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Shorts: The Distance of the Moon
What if the moon were just a jump away? In ...
What if the moon were just a jump away? In this short, a beautiful answer to that question from Italo Calvino, read live by Liev Schreiber.
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Shorts: Radiolab Presents: TJ & Dave
Improv comedy puts uncertainty on center stage -- performers usually ...
Improv comedy puts uncertainty on center stage -- performers usually start by asking the audience for a prompt, then they make up the details as they go. But two actors in Chicago are taking this idea to its absolute limit, and finding ways to navigate t
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Are You Sure?
This hour, we walk the tightrope between doubt and certainty, ...
This hour, we walk the tightrope between doubt and certainty, and wonder if there's a way to make yourself at home on that razor's edge between definitely...and not so sure.
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REBROADCAST: Emergence
This spring, parts of the East Coast will turn squishy ...
This spring, parts of the East Coast will turn squishy and crunchy -- the return of the 17-year cicadas means surfaces in certain locations (in patches from VA to CT) will once again be coated in bugs buzzing at 7 kilohertz. In their honor, we're rebroad
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Shorts: The Man Behind the Maneuver
In the 1970s, choking became national news: thousands were choking ...
In the 1970s, choking became national news: thousands were choking to death, leading to more accidental deaths than guns. Nobody knew what to do. Until a man named Henry Heimlich came along with a big idea.
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Shorts: Speedy Beet
There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first ...
There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his music from ever feeling familiar, to keep pushing his list
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Speed
The inhumanly fast world of high-speed trading, an excruciatingly slow ...
The inhumanly fast world of high-speed trading, an excruciatingly slow experiment, and a physicist plays Zeus.
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Shorts: The Bitter End
We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to ...
We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what doctors want d
