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Robert Krulwich Host
Robert Krulwich

host of 'Radio Lab'

Robert Krulwich specializes in making complicated news about anything -- science, economics, politics -- easy to grasp through visual and dramatic analogies. After getting his start reporting on Watergate for the Pacifica network, Robert became an NPR correspondent. From 1978 -1985, if you were listening to NPR, you heard all about business and economics from Robert Krulwich. After that he moved to television, working for CBS, ABC and the PBS programs Frontline and NOVA. He is currently the host of NOVA’s ScienceNOW. Radio Lab marks his return to public radio.

FROM Robert Krulwich

Colors
Radiolab

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.

Jul 29, 2012

After Life
Radiolab

After Life Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lay beyond...

Jul 22, 2012

Stochasticity
Radiolab

Stochasticity This hour, Radiolab embraces stochasticity, a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness, which may be at the very foundation of our lives.

Jul 15, 2012

Lucy
Radiolab

Lucy Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes. We take a look at what happens when we all try to live together.

Jul 08, 2012

Ghost Stories
Radiolab

Ghost Stories Ghosts, ghouls, shades from the past...

Jul 01, 2012

When Brains Attack!
Radiolab

When Brains Attack! Strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and, sometimes, propel them to do amazing things.

Jun 24, 2012

Guts
Radiolab

Guts We dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there?

Jun 17, 2012

Escape
Radiolab

Escape The walls are closing in, you've got no way out...and then, suddenly, you escape! Stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.

Jun 10, 2012

The Bad Show
Radiolab

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.

Jun 03, 2012

Patient Zero
Radiolab

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.

May 27, 2012

Loops
Radiolab

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

May 20, 2012

Games
Radiolab

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?

May 13, 2012

Talking to Machines
Radiolab

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.

May 06, 2012

Musical Language
Radiolab

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....

Apr 29, 2012

Desperately Seeking Symmetry
Radiolab

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.

Jan 29, 2012

The Soul Patch
Radiolab

The Soul Patch Stories of unlikely (and surprisingly simple) answers to seemingly unsolvable problems.

Jan 22, 2012

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How do physicians assistants and nurse practitioner come with physicians on meaningful outcomes?
Second Opinion

How do physicians assistants and nurse practitioner come with physicians on meaningful outcomes? It is high time to throw out the current model of medical training and look to designing a health care system that really works and is affordable.

3 min, 19 sec Jan 13, 2019

HBM110: Big Numbers
Here Be Monsters

HBM110: Big Numbers Jeff explains why numbers are like telescopes.

26 min, 20 sec Jan 16, 2019

LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last?
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last? Thirty-one thousand LAUSD teachers, nurses, librarians, and counselors went on strike this morning. They want a salary increase, smaller class sizes, and the hiring of more staff. The district says it can’t afford all that. We see what happened on the picket lines.

48 min, 57 sec Jan 14, 2019

Rethinking public school funding in California
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Rethinking public school funding in California LAUSD teachers are striking for the second day. Many people are questioning the state’s model for funding schools. California spends around $10,800 per pupil, which is less than the national average. But maybe that money could be better spent if the district itself were smaller and more manageable.

47 min, 54 sec Jan 15, 2019

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