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 ...
A few 2010 Radiolab highlights: a woman fights a 950-pound bull to save a stranger's life, we argue about falling cats, a toxic lake spawns new life, and we meet a chimp who was raised to be human. If you value stories like these, help support them with a year-end donation--it's easy, and tax-deductible. Or text "RL" to 25383, and a $10 donation will appear on your phone bill (messaging and data rates apply). Thanks everybody!
In our episode The Good Show, we wrestle with the question of whether natural selection inherently favors selfish behavior. Is the process of evolutionary competion cruel, or does it sometimes pay to be nice?
A cat and a piece of jellied toast: could you break the laws of physics with these two simple tools? Check out this week’s podcast, Gravitational Anarchy, and be sure to listen for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s explanation of one of the more elegant and DIY paradoxes out ...
In this week's podcast, Robert chatted with Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly about the evolution of ideas and technology...and toward the end of the conversation you hear him getting nervous about the idea that technology might one day develop a mind of its own and, just maybe, crush us in ...
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In our Cities episode, Jad tells the story of Marshall Mabey, a sandhog who was working to dig a subway tunnel under the East River in 1916. In order to keep the tunnel from collapsing under the weight of the riverbed and river, compressed air was pumped into ...
