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Radiolab
24 Sep 2021 • WNYC Studios

HEAVY METAL

42:40

Today we have a story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. Reporter Avir Mitra and science journalist Lydia Denworth bring us a story about how one man’s relentless pursuit of a deep truth...

Radiolab
17 Sep 2021 • WNYC Studios

In the Running

19:33

Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure. In this short, Diane tells us how her disability gave rise to an extraordinary ability.

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Radiolab
10 Sep 2021 • WNYC Studios

60 Words, 20 Years

01:09:37

It has now been 20 years since September 11th, 2001. So we’re bringing you a Peabody Award-winning story from our archives about one sentence, written in the hours after the attacks, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal langu...

Radiolab
26 Aug 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Unsilencing

29:00

Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, even psoriasis — these are diseases in which the body begins to attack itself, and they all have one thing in common: they affect women more than men. Most autoimmune disorders do. And not just by a little bit, often by a lot;...

Radiolab
20 Aug 2021 • WNYC Studios

Everybody’s Got One

29:25

We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. But this story isn’t the nursery rhyme we think it is. In a way, it’s a struggle, almost like a tiny war. And right on the front lines of that b...

Radiolab
06 Aug 2021 • WNYC Studios

Gonads: Dutee

46:20

In 2014, India’s Dutee Chand was a rising female track and field star, crushing national records. But then, that summer, something unexpected happened: she failed a gender test. And was banned from the sport. Before she knew it, Dutee was thrown into the middle of a controve...

Radiolab
23 Jul 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Queen of Dying

01:00:57

If you’ve ever lost someone, or watched a medical drama in the last 15 years, you’ve probably heard of The Five Stages of Grief. They’re sort of the world’s worst consolation prize for loss. But last year, we began wondering… Where did these stages come from in the first pla...

Radiolab
19 Jul 2021 • WNYC Studios

Breaking News about The Other Latif

02:02

A major development in the case of Guantanamo detainee Abdul Latif Nasser.

To listen to our series about him, go to theotherlatif.org.

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Radiolab
15 Jul 2021 • WNYC Studios

G: Unfit

53:43

In the past few weeks, most people have probably seen Britney Spears' name or face everywhere. When she stood in front of a judge (virtually) and protested the conservatorship she's been living under for the past 13 years, one harrowing detail in particular st...

Radiolab
09 Jul 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 6

27:12

Lift Every Voice: Episode Six from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.

Black Swan Records was first to record the anthem Lift Every Voice and Sing. From a family's Thanksgiving dinner, we portal through to the song's past, present, and future.

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Radiolab
02 Jul 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 5

42:29

Roland Hayes and the Lost Generation: Episode Five from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.

Here’s the extraordinary story of Roland Hayes, another great (and largely forgotten) creator of new cosmologies.

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Radiolab
29 Jun 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 4

12:36

Our Harlem Moon: Episode Four from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.

In this spin-off tale, Ethel Waters hijacks a degrading song and makes the music her own.

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Radiolab
26 Jun 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 3

41:36

Black No More, White No More: Episode Three from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.

We follow Harry's grandkids and great grandkids as they grapple with his legacy in their own lives.

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Radiolab
19 Jun 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 2

43:07

Dreams Deferred: Episode Two from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.

The story of the post Black Swan years. We follow Harry’s Supreme Court battle to desegregate the South Side of Chicago, and then the mysterious decision which forces him into seclusion, before his untimely death.

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Radiolab
18 Jun 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 1

01:06:14

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan: Episode One from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee. Harry Pace founded Black Swan Records exactly 100 years ago. Pace launched the career of Ethel Waters, inadvert...

Radiolab
11 Jun 2021 • WNYC Studios

Breath

01:31:15

We’ve just barely made it to the other side of a year that took our collective breaths away. So more than ever we felt that this was the time to go deep on life’s rhythmic dance partner. Today we huff and we puff through a whole stack of stories about breath. We talk to scie...

Radiolab
27 May 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Rhino Hunter

52:17

Back in 2014, Corey Knowlton paid $350,000 for a hunting trip to Namibia to shoot and kill an endangered species. He’s a professional hunter, who guides hunts all around the world, so going to Africa would be nothing new. The target on the other hand would be. An...

Radiolab
21 May 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub

46:29

This episode, a tale of a wonder drug that will make you wonder about way more than just drugs. Doctor-reporter Avir Mitra follows the epic and fantastical journey of a molecule dug out of a distant patch of dirt that would go on to make billions of dollars, prol...

Radiolab
13 May 2021 • WNYC Studios

Brown Box

28:38

You order some stuff on the Internet and it shows up three hours later. How could all the things that need to happen to make that happen happen so fast?

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Radiolab
05 May 2021 • WNYC Studios

Kleptotherms

44:12

In this episode, we break the thermometer watch the mercury spill out as we discover temperature is far stranger than it seems. Five stories that run the gamut from snakes to stars. We start out underwater, with a snake that has evolved a devious trick for kee...

Radiolab
22 Apr 2021 • WNYC Studios

Deep Cuts

24:13

Today, Lulu and Latif talk about some of their favorite episodes from Radiolab’s past that hold new power today. Lulu points to an episode from 2008: Imagine that you're a composer. Imagine getting the commission to write a song that will allow family membe...

Radiolab
15 Apr 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Septendecennial Sing-Along

19:39

While most of us hear a wall of white noise, squeaks, and squawks....David Rothenberg hears a symphony. He's trained his ear to listen for the music of animals, and he's always looking for chances to join in, with everything from lonely birds to giant whales to swarming cica...

Radiolab
02 Apr 2021 • WNYC Studios

What Up Holmes?

48:21

Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America. But our say-almost-anything approach to free speech is actually relatively recent, and you can trace it back to one guy: a Supreme Court justice named Ol...

Radiolab
25 Mar 2021 • WNYC Studios

Elements

01:13:47

Scientists took about 300 years to lay out the Periodic Table into neat rows and columns. In one hour, we’re going to mess it all up. This episode, we enlist journalists, poets, musicians, and even a physicist to help us tell stories of matter that matters. You’ll...

Radiolab
19 Mar 2021 • WNYC Studios

Escapescape

32:24

As we hit the one year mark since the first U.S. state (California) issued a stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we put out a call to see if any of you would take us to your secret escape spot and record audio there. And you astounded us with what you broug...

Radiolab
12 Mar 2021 • WNYC Studios

Dispatch 14: Covid Crystal Ball

27:18

Last summer, at a hospital in England, a man in his 70s being treated for complications with cancer tested positive for covid-19. He had lymphoma, and the disease plus his drugs weakened his immune system, making him particularly susceptible to the virus. He wasn’t too bad o...

Radiolab
25 Feb 2021 • WNYC Studios

The Ceremony

47:20

In November of 2016, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster's apartment in Brooklyn, told her to take her battery out of her phone, and began to tell her about The Ceremony, a moment last fall when a group of, well, let's just call them w...

Radiolab
19 Feb 2021 • WNYC Studios

Red Herring

35:22

It was the early 80s, the height of the Cold War, when something strange began happening off the coast of Sweden. The navy reported a mysterious sound deep below the surface of the ocean. Again, and again, and again they would hear it near their secret military bases, in the...

Radiolab
12 Feb 2021 • WNYC Studios

Facebook's Supreme Court

44:14

Since its inception, the perennial thorn in Facebook’s side has been content moderation. That is, deciding what you and I are allowed to post on the site and what we’re not. Missteps by Facebook in this area have fueled everything from a genocide in Myanmar to viral disinfor...

Radiolab
29 Jan 2021 • WNYC Studios

Smile My Ass

34:47

Candid Camera is one of the most original – and one of the most mischievous – TV shows of all time. Admirers hailed its creator Allen Funt as a poet of the everyday. Critics denounced him as a Peeping Tom. Funt sought to capture people at their most unguarded, th...