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Zeroworld

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karim Ani dedicated his life to math. He studied it in school, got a degree in math education, even ...

Numbers

22 Dec 2023

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First aired back in 2009, this episode is all about one thing, or rather a collection of things. Whe...

Death Interrupted

15 Dec 2023

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As a lifeguard, a paramedic, and then an ER doctor, Blair Bigham found his calling: saving lives. Bu...

A 4-Track Mind

08 Dec 2023

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In this short episode that first aired in 2011, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano playe...

Boy Man

01 Dec 2023

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Could puberty get any more awkward? Turns out, yes. Writer Patrick Burleigh started going through pu...

Shrink

24 Nov 2023

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The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking. Viruses are su...

The Interstitium

17 Nov 2023

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In this episode we introduce you to a part of our bodies that was invisible to Western scientists un...

Funky Hand Jive

10 Nov 2023

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Back when Robert was kid, he had a chance encounter with then President John F. Kennedy. The interac...

Toy Soldiers

03 Nov 2023

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Back in February of 2022, anyone who knew anything thought the War in Ukraine would be over in a few...

Border Trilogy Part 3: What Remains

27 Oct 2023

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While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United State...

Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line

20 Oct 2023

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While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United State...

Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence

13 Oct 2023

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While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United State...

The Secret to a Long Life

06 Oct 2023

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Producer Sindhu Gnanasambandan wants to know how she can live the longest feeling life possible. The...

Poison Control

29 Sep 2023

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Originally aired in 2018, this episode features reporter Brena Farrell as a new mom. Her son gave he...

Smog Cloud Silver Lining

22 Sep 2023

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Summer 2023 was a pretty scary one for the planet. Global temperatures in June and July reached reco...

Driverless Dilemma

15 Sep 2023

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Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral mat...

Born This Way?

08 Sep 2023

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Today, the story of an idea. An idea that some people need, others reject, and one that will, ultima...

Touch at a Distance

01 Sep 2023

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In this episode from 2007, we take you on a tour of language, music, and the properties of sound. We...

Rumble Strip: Finn and the Bell

25 Aug 2023

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A couple years ago, our producer Annie McEwen listened to an audio documentary that, she said, “to...

The Wubi Effect

18 Aug 2023

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When we think of China today, we think of a technological superpower. From Huawei and 5G to TikTok a...

The Internet Dilemma

11 Aug 2023

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Matthew Herrick was sitting on his stoop in Harlem when something weird happened. Then, it happened ...

Right to be Forgotten

04 Aug 2023

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In online news, stories live forever. The tipsy photograph of you at the college football game? It’...

Little Black Holes Everywhere

28 Jul 2023

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In 1908, on a sunny, clear, quiet morning in Siberia, witnesses recall seeing a blinding light strea...

The Right Stuff

21 Jul 2023

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Since the beginning of the space program, we’ve expected astronauts to be fully-abled athletic ove...

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings

14 Jul 2023

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At a tree ring conference in the relatively treeless city of Tucson, Arizona, three scientists walk ...

Man Against Horse

07 Jul 2023

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This is a story about your butt. It’s a story about how you got your butt, why you have your butt,...

The Cataclysm Sentence

30 Jun 2023

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Sad news for all of us: producer Rachael Cusick— who brought us soul-stirring stories rethinking g...

Americanish

23 Jun 2023

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Given reporter Julia Longoria’s long love affair with the Supreme Court, it’s no surprise she’...

Beware the Sand Striker

16 Jun 2023

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Shipworms. Hairy Chested Yeti Crabs. Parasitic Barnacles in the cloaca of Greenland Sharks. These ar...

Eye in the Sky

09 Jun 2023

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Ross McNutt has a superpower: he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve...

The Seagulls

02 Jun 2023

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In the 1970s, as LGBTQ+ people in the United States faced conservatives whose top argument was that ...

On the Edge

26 May 2023

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At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, one athlete pulled a move that, as far as we know, no one els...

Family People

19 May 2023

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In 2021, editor Alex Neason's grandfather passed away. On his funeral program, she learned the name ...

The War on Our Shore

12 May 2023

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Foreign enemies have seldom brought war to U.S. soil… right? In this episode from 2017, we tell yo...

Ologies: Dark Matters

05 May 2023

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Testudinology. Enigmatology. Hagfishology. Raccoonology. Meteorology. Chronobiology. Chickenology. D...

The Golden Rule

28 Apr 2023

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At first glance, Golden Balls was just like all the other game shows — quick-witted host, flashy s...

Corpse Demon

21 Apr 2023

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Heaven and hell, Judgement Day, monotheism — these ideas all came from one ancient Persian religio...

Abortion Pills, Take Two

14 Apr 2023

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Abortion pills — a combo of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol — are on notice: on April 7,...

The Library of Alexandra

07 Apr 2023

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How much does knowledge cost? While that sounds like an abstract question, the answer is surprisingl...

The Good Samaritan

31 Mar 2023

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Tuesday afternoon, summer of 2017: Scotty Hatton and Scottie Wightman made a decision to help someon...

Alone Enough

24 Mar 2023

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Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved being alone. But then, the pan...

Apologetical

17 Mar 2023

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How do you fix a word that’s broken? A word we need when we bump into someone on the street, or br...

Buttons Not Buttons

10 Mar 2023

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Tiny buttons have such a hold on us. They can be portals to power, freedom, and destruction. Today, ...

Crabs All the Way Down

03 Mar 2023

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This week we examine one of nature's most humble creations: crabs. Turns out when you look closely a...

The Trust Engineers

24 Feb 2023

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First aired in 2015, this is an episode about social media, and how, when we talk online, things can...

Golden Goose

17 Feb 2023

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After years of being publicly shamed for “fleecing” the taxpayers with their frivolous and obscu...

Bliss

10 Feb 2023

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In this deep cut from 2012, we are searching for platonic ideals longing for completion, engaged in ...

Ukraine: The Handoff

03 Feb 2023

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We continue the story of a covert smuggling operation to bring abortion pills into Ukraine, shortly ...

Birthstory

27 Jan 2023

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You know the drill — all it takes is one sperm, one egg, and blammo — you’ve got yourself a ba...

Ukraine: Under the Counter

20 Jan 2023

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In the weeks following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a young doctor in Germany sees that abort...

Games

13 Jan 2023

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In this episode, first aired in 2011, we talk about the meaning of a good game — whether it's a pr...

Universe In Verse

06 Jan 2023

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For a special New Year’s treat, we take a tour through the history of the universe with the help o...

New Normal

30 Dec 2022

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This episode —first released in 2009 and then again in 2015, with an update — asks, what is “n...

The Flight Before Christmas

23 Dec 2022

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At any given moment, nearly 500,000 people are crammed together in a metal tube, hurtling through th...

Null and Void

16 Dec 2022

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This episode, first aired in 2017, has Reporter Tracie Hunte and Editor Soren Wheeler exploring a hi...

The Middle of Everything Ever

09 Dec 2022

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After graduating from high school, without a clear plan for what to do next, Laura Andrews started a...

The Ashes on the Lawn

02 Dec 2022

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A global pandemic. Thousands dying. A passive government. An afflicted group fueled by grief and ang...

More Perfect: The Political Thicket

25 Nov 2022

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When U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was asked at the end of his career, “What was th...

What's Up Doc?

18 Nov 2022

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Mel Blanc was known as “the man of 1,000 voices,” but, to hear his son tell it, the actual numbe...

Butt Stuff

11 Nov 2022

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Why do we have a butt? Well, it’s not just for the convenience of a portable seat cushion. This we...

Guts

04 Nov 2022

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This hour, we dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? And what ...

The Weather Report

28 Oct 2022

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Meteorologists are as common as the clouds these days. Rolling onto the airwaves at morning, noon an...

Black Box

21 Oct 2022

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In this episode, first aired in 2014, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes — space...

No-Touch Abortion

14 Oct 2022

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When the Dobbs decision went down, ER doctor Avir Mitra started to prepare for the worst — botched...

The Theater of David Byrne's Mind

07 Oct 2022

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It all started when the rockstar David Byrne did a Freaky-Friday-like body-swap with a Barbie Doll. ...

Playing God

Fri, 30 Sep

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When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or...

Terrestrials: The Mastermind

Fri, 23 Sep

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Lulu Miller, intrepid host and fearless mother of two, went off on her own and put together a little...

Quicksaaaand!

Fri, 16 Sep

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For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear — it held a vise grip on our imaginations, from chi...

40,000 Recipes for Murder

Fri, 9 Sep

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Two scientists realize that the very same AI technology they have developed to discover medicines fo...

Rodney v. Death

Fri, 2 Sep

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In the fall of 2004, Jeanna Giese checked into the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin with a set of pu...

Gigaverse

Fri, 26 Aug

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A pizzeria owner in Kansas realizes that DoorDash is hijacking his pizzas. A Lyft driver conquers th...

9-Volt Nirvana

Fri, 19 Aug

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Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all...

Infinities

Fri, 12 Aug

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In August 2018, Boen Wang was at a work retreat for a new job. Surrounded by mosquitoes and swamplan...

Escape

Fri, 5 Aug

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This episode originally aired in 2012. An all-star lineup of producers — Pat Walters, Lynn Levy, a...

The Humpback and the Killer

Fri, 29 Jul

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Killer whales — orcas — eat all sorts of animals, including humpback calves. But one day, biolog...

You v. You

Fri, 22 Jul

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This episode, originally aired more than a decade ago, attempts to answer one question: how do you w...

The Gatekeeper

Fri, 15 Jul

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This week, Reporter Peter Smith and Senior Producer Matt Kielty tell the story of the U.S. Supreme C...

Baby Blue Blood Drive

Fri, 8 Jul

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This is an episode that first aired in 2018 and then again in the thick of the pandemic in 2020. Why...

My Thymus, Myself

Fri, 1 Jul

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Today, we go to a spot that may be one of the most philosophical places in the universe: the thymus,...

Galápagos

Fri, 24 Jun

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As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episod...

No Special Duty

Fri, 17 Jun

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Since the massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, people across the worl...

Neanderthal's Revenge

Fri, 10 Jun

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A few months ago, co-Host Latif Nasser, who was otherwise healthy, saw blood in his poop. It was the...

Origin Stories

Fri, 3 Jun

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We’re all in a tizzy here at Radiolab on account of our 20-year anniversary. And, as one does upo...

Radiolab After Dark

Fri, 27 May

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Back in 2002, Jad Abumrad started Radiolab as a live radio show. He DJ’d out into the ether and 20...

La Mancha Screwjob

Fri, 20 May

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All the world’s a stage. Or, sometimes it feels that way, especially these days. In this episode, ...

Frailmales

Fri, 13 May

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This week, we bring you two stories about little guys trying to do big big things. First, self-procl...

Debatable

Fri, 6 May

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In competitive debate future presidents, supreme court justices, and titans of industry pummel each ...

Hello, My Name Is

Fri, 29 Apr

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As a species, we’re obsessed with names. They’re one of the first labels we get as kids. We name...

The Other Latif: Cuba-ish

Fri, 22 Apr

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Almost exactly twenty years ago, detainee 244 got transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Captured by Amer...

NULL

Fri, 15 Apr

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A one-word magical spell. Several years back, that’s exactly what Joseph Tartaro thought he’d di...

In the Dust of This Planet

Fri, 8 Apr

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Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … In this episode, first aired in 2014, but maybe even m...

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