producer and host of 'Radio Lab'
Jad Abumrad is the host and producer of Radio Lab. A former independent reporter, producer and documentary-maker for a variety of local and national programs, he was also a member of the team that launched The Next Big Thing and has been a teacher/mentor for WNYC’s Radio Rookies. Jad has written music for films and studied music composition and creative writing at Oberlin College.
Colors Our world is saturated in color, but it's hard to put your finger on how something so intangible can have such a visceral punch.
After Life Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lay beyond...
The Bad Show Cruelty, violence, badness... We wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape.
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 Zero.
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.
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....
Where the fire started, a checkered past The Woolsey Fire continues to rage at a little more than a third containment today. Areas in, and north and west of, Malibu are feeling the brunt of the impact. But across the Ventura County Line, headed past Point Mugu, and toward Oxnard, is a plot of land that has a lot of history. And controversy. With fires burning inside the grounds of the former Rocketdyne Field Lab, some folks who live nearby are worried.
The New World Where do speech balloons come from? How does time move from panel to panel? This week we explore the techniques of comic-book storytelling through Chris Reynolds’s graphic series, newly anthologized as The New World. Join us as we travel deep into the artist’s world to find the source of these bizarrely mundane comics’ depth and beauty.
Good Food’s Thanksgiving tips Evan Kleiman and Dorie Greenspan answer your questions about making a memorable Thanksgiving meal. Culinary technologist Dave Arnold is bringing his Thanksgiving hacks to the potluck, too. There’s a new film in theaters about a chef prodigy named Flynn McGarry. Plus: Los Angeles pie queen Nicole Rucker dishes on her holiday treats.