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Radiolab

Radiolab is an investigation, a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. Each episode is an experiment in which science bumps into culture... information sounds like music. It's designed for listeners who demand skepticism but appreciate wonder, who are curious about the world but who also want to be moved and surprised.

Check out Radiolab on the web at www.radiolab.org

UPCOMING SHOWS

Patient Zero

The great mysteries all have a shadowy figure that sets things in motion and holds the key to how the story unfolds. In epidemiology, this character is called Patient … more >>

RECENT SHOWS

Loops

We look at some of the surprising ways loops steer our lives, and asks what happens when we disturb them. more >>

Games

A good game can make you feel like your whole life hangs in the balance. Why do we get so invested in something so trivial? What makes them feel so pivotal? more >>

Talking to Machines

What can machines tell us about being human? Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the line. more >>

Musical Language

Learn how the brain processes sound and meet a composer who uses computers to capture the musical DNA of dead composers in order to create new work.... more >>

Desperately Seeking Symmetry

The search for order and balance in the world – how symmetry shapes our very existence, from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. more >>

The Soul Patch

Stories of unlikely (and surprisingly simple) answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. more >>

Help!

What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you? more >>

Lost and Found

Stories about getting lost and how our brains, and our hearts, help us get home... more >>

The Good Show

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 … more >>

Fate and Fortune

We question what decides the trajectory of our lives--individual force of will, or fate? more >>

Cities

We take to the street to ask what makes cities tick.... more >>

Falling

There are so many ways to fall—in love, asleep, even flat on your face. This hour, we dive into stories of great falls... more >>

Words

It's almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour, we try to do just that.... more >>

Oops

Stories of unintended consequences... more >>

Numbers

Profound? Confusing? Abstract or concrete? This hour of Radiolab, we study the nature of numbers. more >>

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Program Details

Hosts

Jad Abumrad

Jad Abumrad is an independent reporter, producer and documentary-maker for a variety of local and national programs.

Robert Krulwich

Robert Krulwich specializes in making complicated news about anything -- science, economics, politics -- easy to grasp through visual and dramatic analogies.

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