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A Flock of Two

Date
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffers from a problem that not only puts his life at risk—it jeopardizes the safety of everybody around

The Echo in the Machine

Date
Friday, May 23, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still

How to Cure What Ails You

Date
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to behavior and feelings. Right? Well, maybe not, or maybe not just yet. It seems the workings of our

The First Known Earthly Voice

Date
Friday, May 09, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A couple months ago, Lulu guest edited an issue of the nature magazine Orion. She called the issue “Queer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity,” and it was a wide

Terrestrials: The Snow Beast

Date
Friday, May 02, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her afternoons scavenging for ancient treasures on the ground. One day, she found

The Age of Aquaticus

Date
Friday, April 25, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

For years, scientists thought nothing could live above 73℃/163℉.  At that temperature, everything boiled to death. But scientists Tom Brock and Hudson Freeze weren’t convinced. What began as their simple quest to trawl for life in some of the hottest

Ghosts in the Green Machine

Date
Friday, April 18, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

In honor of our Earth, on her day, we have two stories about the overlooked, ignored, and neglected parts of nature. In the first half, we learn about an epic battle that is raging across the globe every day, every moment. It's happening in the ocean

Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow

Date
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

A couple years ago, an entomologist named Martha Weiss got a letter from a little boy in Japan saying he wanted to replicate a famous study of hers. We covered that original study on Radiolab more than a decade ago in an episode called Goo and You –

Killer Empathy

Date
Friday, April 04, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

In an episode first aired in 2012, Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his career studying a particularly ferocious set of insects: Gryllacrididae. Or, as Jeff describes them,