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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The Good Show
If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, ...
If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?
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Shorts: Gravitational Anarchy
A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return ...
A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return to the question of what felines feel when they fall.
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Shorts: What Does Technology Want?
Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven ...
Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?
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Cities
One tidy mathematical formula may hold the key to how ...
One tidy mathematical formula may hold the key to how cities work. We take to the streets to test the numbers, & ask what really makes cities tick.
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Shorts: Wild Talk
In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words ...
In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie.
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Shorts: The Walls of Jericho
In this podcast, Jad and Robert throw some physics at ...
In this podcast, Jad and Robert throw some physics at a bible story. We find out just how many trumpeters you'd actually need to blow down the walls of Jericho.
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Falling
We plunge into a black hole, take a trip over ...
We plunge into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, and upend some myths about falling cats.
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Shorts: Voices in Your Head
In this podcast, Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the ...
In this podcast, Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought and the voice in your head. How did it get there? And what's happening when people hear someone else's voice in their head?
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Time
The strange, subjective nature of time -- from a sped-up ...
The strange, subjective nature of time -- from a sped-up spin through childhood, to a really, really slowed-down Beethoven symphony.
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Bonus Video: Words
Words have the power to shape the way we think ...
Words have the power to shape the way we think and feel. In this stunning video (made to accompany our Words episode), filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante bandy visual wordplay into a moving exploration of the power of language.
