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Is the world full of deep symmetries and ordered pairs? Or do we live in a lopsided universe? This striking video by Everynone plays with our yearning for balance, and reveals how beautiful imperfect matches can be. The video was inspired by our episode Desperately Seeking Symmetry.
Just after the Big Bang, the universe was a primordial soup made of light. Then, it started belching out matter. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how deeply shocking this is, and Marcelo Gleiser reveals an imperfection in the laws of physics that makes our very existence possible.
Robert kicks things off with a beautiful re-telling of a 2400-year-old love story from Plato, by way of Aristophanes, about the longing many of us feel for another half to make us whole. This ancient yearning gets us wondering whether the world around us is deeply and fundamentally symmetric, or...not. ...
This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence--from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.
The mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson posed a big question about mirrors in one of his best-known books: Through the Looking-Glass (yup, Dodgson's pen name was Lewis Carroll). Natasha Gostwick of Storynory reads an excerpt that gets at the heart of the trouble: is mirror milk any good to drink? ...
Woohoo! We're going to stay another night in Los Angeles to do a second performance of our Radiolab Live: Symmetry show. Tickets for the new 3/24 show at UCLA's Royce Hall are on sale now.
By popular demand, we’re adding a second night in NYC to our spring tour of “Radiolab Live: Symmetry”. Tickets are on sale now for the new 3/15 performance at NYU Skirball Center. (And if you enter the code “RADIOLAB,” you’ll get a $5 discount!).
This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece from across the pond--a piece about soccer they fell in love with when they heard it at the Third Coast festival in Chicago.
Radiolab is hitting the road for a three-city tour (New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle) this March! Jad and Robert will be performing an upcoming episode on symmetry, and how it shapes our very existence—from the origin of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.
On 11/11, Jad and Robert will ponder whether we live in a world that's fundamentally symmetric...or deeply asymmetric...in a LIVE show at the Greene Space in NYC. John Cameron Mitchell (of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fame) will perform as part of a not-to-be-missed night of musical performances, engaging images, ...
