Cryptonomicon - what a beast! This is a novel that's hard to actually describe but a joy to read.
Interested in helping out at Radiolab? We're now accepting applications for our fall internship! Submit an application via the WNYC website.
(Pro tip: the application includes some Radiolab-specific questions, so leave yourself extra time to answer them.)
tUnE-yArDs is a music project from the mind and body of Merrill Garbus, who blasts big-pipes vocals over free-form drum loops, layers of ukulele, and electric bass guitar. This free download is from the latest tUnE-yArDs album, w h o k i l l.
Erik Friedlander does magical things with the cello. For his latest trick, he casts away the instrument's traditional bow in favor of some Southern-rock-inflected fingerpicking. This free download is from Erik's latest album, Bonebridge.
Reggie Watts reached into our ears and shook our brains last Saturday during our live show. We'll feature some of his mind-rattling performance in an upcoming podcast, but in the meantime...here's a free download to tide you over: "Every Day Is Like Sunday," from the LP Live at Third Man Records.
You can still stream this great Glenn Kotche track, but we're no longer able to offer it as a free download.
We're gearing up for our live taping on June 18th at NYU Skirball Center with a free download from Buke & Gass--one of the three musical acts Jad will present during a night of electritying performances. Grab tickets here. (PS: you get $5 off with the code "radiolab.")
The following post is from Robert's excellent blog Krulwich Wonders. You can read all the articles from Krulwich Wonders here.
The following post is from Robert's excellent blog Krulwich Wonders. You can read all the articles from Krulwich Wonders here.
What we have here is better, more cunning and a damn sight more beautiful than magic. It's a pendulum dance.
We're gearing up to start building our first-ever mobile phone app, and we want your input.
Our friends at On The Media just posted a new episode all about data, featuring Radiolab’s story on the decline effect and other stories about the onslaught of information: personal, political, seductive, disastrous. Listen here!
We're keeping a running list of all the books we touch on in our hour-long episodes--a virtual bookshelf that you can scan any time you're looking for a little inspiration. It's in reverse chronological order, so titles from our most recent shows are at the top. Happy reading.
Radiolab is getting ready to build its first iPhone app, and we're looking to contract a team of talented professionals to design and build it.
A segment from our latest episode, Desperately Seeking Symmetry, has been turned into an experimental hyper audio player--linking images, comments, and an animated transcript to the audio. It was built using HTML5, so you may need to upgrade your browser to the latest version in order to get the ...
Jad gathered up some of Radiolab's greatest sound effects for a sonic gallery put together by The New York Times Magazine. Then, a listener asked us to turn them into ringtones, so we did! Here they are, from the Big Bang, to Wriggling Sperm. Enjoy!
Tom Eisner spent most of his life--from his early childhood in South America, to his award-winning work at Cornell--in the company of insects...studying every aspect of their lives. He died on Friday at age 81, a beloved author and nature photographer who taught countless scientists to love bugs. ...
While I was working on the pigeon piece for the Lost & Found show, fellow Radiolab contributor Douglas Q. Smith took me out to Bushwick to meet George Martin, a man who flies pigeons from a factory roof. This is brief look into his world.
Jad and Robert were on Morning Edition bright and early this morning, discussing the most sophisticated animal language ever described: a grammar of color, shapes, and sizes embedded in prairie dog chirps. Read more, and listen to some prairie dog alarm calls, here.
This adaptation of our "Goat on a Cow" story is so beautiful it made Robert cry--he broke into tears at his desk, as he describes to the New York Times. The dance was directed and choreographed by Andrew Palermo, with additional choreography by Taye Diggs, as a ...
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft as part of the Voyager Interstellar Mission. Each probe carried a copy of the Golden Record--a copper album, coated in gold, of images and recordings meant to convey life on earth to extraterrestrials who might someday cross paths with the probes. In addition to ...