Forests on Forests | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2022-02-11 | From the Radiolab podcast: Join us as we grab a branch, pull ourselves up off the forest floor, and climb through into a secret garden in the sky.Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3p3BO2qFor much of history, tree canopies were pretty much completely ignored by science. It was as if researchers said collectively, "It's just going to be empty up there, and we've got our hands full studying the trees down here! So why bother?!"But then, around the mid-1980s, a few ecologists around the world got curious and started making their way up into the treetops using any means necessary (ropes, cranes, hot air dirigibles) to document all they could find. It didn't take long for them to realize not only was the forest canopy not empty, it was absolutely filled to the brim with life. You've heard of treehouses? How about tree gardens?! In this episode we journey up into the sky and discover forests above the forest. We learn about the secret powers of these sky gardens from ecologist Korena Mafune, and we follow Nalini Nadkarni as she makes a ground-breaking discovery that changes how we understand what trees are capable of. This episode is a layer cake of arboreal surprises, including the appearance retired host Robert Krulwich. We also hear a preview of a three-part series from The Experiment podcast called "SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned." Yes, it's about canned SPAM and so much more. Listen here: bit.ly/3gjUQfIFollow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabTwitter — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/membershipWe first learned about the magical world of the canopy from this beautiful video from Michael Werner, Joe Hanson, and the PBS Overview team: youtube.com/watch?v=mRd8_Tu7YDs It features Korena Mafune’s research up in the treetops, as well as the people who have dedicated their lives to saving what’s left of the old growth forests. We highly recommend checking it out! Photo by Malonecr7 via Wikimedia Commons.Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.
Why Dont Sex Scandals Matter Anymore | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-10-19 | From the Radiolab podcast: Roosevelt, Kennedy, Eisenhower … they all got a pass. But today we peer back at the moment when poking into the private lives of political figures became standard practice.In 1987, Gary Hart was a young charismatic Democrat, poised to win his party’s nomination and possibly the presidency. Many of us know the story of what happened next, and even if you don’t, it’s a familiar tale. Back in 2016, we examined how, when this happened, politicians and political reporters found themselves in uncharted territory. And with help from author Matt Bai, we looked at how the events of that May shaped the way we cover politics, and expanded our sense of what's appropriate when it comes to judging a candidate.In the wake of the 2016 election, and in the throes of our current political moment, it would seem we’ve come full circle in the weirdest way. So we sat down with Brooke Gladstone, co-host of our sister show here at WNYC, On the Media (wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm), to talk about why sex scandals don’t matter anymore. We have some exciting news! In the “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named its first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! Radiolab has teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moonEPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Simon Adlerwith help from - Jamie YorkProduced by - Simon AdlerUpdate produced by - Rebecca LaksSignup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (members.radiolab.org) today.Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX — https://x.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Sea Troll: An Everlasting Shark? | Terrestrials | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-10-14 | The Greenland shark is ugly. Its eyes look cloudy and dead. Its snout and fins are stubby. Its meat is poisonous. And that may be part of why most people have overlooked these sharks for so long. But there was a rumor circulating among Greenland villagers that this deepsea dweller could survive for centuries. Scientist John Steffensen went on a hunt to see if this was true and discovered that the Greenland shark can live for more than 500 years, making it the longest living vertebrate on the planet. Biologist Steve Austad explains how the shark avoids death for so long and discovers that its secret to longevity comes at a cost. It seems that to live a longer life, it opts out of some of the best stuff life has to offer: adventure, friends and companionship.🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Illustration by Tara Anand.Video by Kim Nowacki.
The Crystal Ball: Giant Honeybees Who Predict the Future | Terrestrials | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-10-07 | The honey bee. The ever-important pollinator for our plants is disappearing. Some call it the silence of the bees, others call it colony collapse disorder. Dr. Sammy Ramsey, our official bug correspondent, wondered, could it be due to parasites? And if so, how do we catch all of them? This question takes Dr. Sammy to the heart of a jungle in Bangladesh to look for overlooked honey bees impervious to parasites. The only problem? He can't find them. With help from a local guide named Babulall, he learns how the most overlooked bees could possibly save all the honey bees in the world. Plus, they have some killer dance moves.Big special thanks this episode to Babulall Munda and Rubaiyat Mansur Mowgli, both of whom, by the way, will be credited on any scientific papers that come out of the work they did with Dr. Sammy in Bangladesh. 🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Illustration by Tara Anand.Video by Kim Nowacki.
Octomom | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-10-06 | From the Radiolab podcast: A mile under the ocean, we get to watch an octopus perform a heroic act of heart and determination.First aired back in 2020, this episode follows the story of an octopus living one mile under the ocean as she performs a heroic act of heart and determination.In 2007, Bruce Robison’s robot submarine stumbled across an octopus settling in to brood her eggs. It seemed like a small moment. But as he went back to visit her, month after month, what began as a simple act of motherhood became a heroic feat that has never been equaled by any known species on Earth. This episode was reported and produced by Annie McEwen. Special thanks to Kim Fulton-Bennett and Rob Sherlock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. If you need more ocean in your life, check out the incredible Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams (especially the jellies!): www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-camsHere’s a pic of Octomom sitting on her eggs, Nov. 1, 2007: media.wnyc.org/i/800/449/c/80/2020/05/GraneledoneT1146_09_02_52_23.png🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
How to Make Acorn Pizza from Radiolab For Kids Presents: Terrestrials Radiolab 2024-09-30 | Acorns are an abundant, calorie rich food for squirrels, but humans can eat them, too! Terrestrials' “Songbud" Alan Goffinski is turning acorns into pizza! For more nutty squirrel intel — like how they might just hold the key to sending humans to Mars — listen to "The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic" from Terrestrials: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Video by Alan Goffinski.
The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic | Terrestrials | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-30 | Middle schooler, Aanya, has an up-close encounter with a squirrel in the school yard, which leads her to an obsession with one of North America's most common critters. She tells host Lulu Miller all about the overlooked superpowers of squirrels, including one squirrel who lives way up in the Arctic, where the weather gets so cold the squirrels who live there drop their body temperatures down below freezing and somehow, miraculously, survive.Host Lulu travels to Alaska to meet one of these squirrels as it sleeps, and Lulu talks with biologists Dr. Kelly Drew and Dr. Brian Barnes about why this humble squirrel holds potential for treating Alzheimers, brain injury, and even helping astronauts hibernate on the long journey to Mars.Check out the making of this episode here: youtu.be/YzoPQdHcM5U🎶 This episode features a song with a cameo from Chicago-based musician Tasha. Check out our songs page to hear "On The Other Side (ft. Tasha)" and more new singles every week: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids/just-the-songs🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Illustration by Tara Anand.Video by Kim Nowacki.
A Little Pompeiian Fish Sauce Goes a Long Way | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-28 | From the Radiolab podcast: The coldest of cold cases about a red hot explosion. Today we follow a sleuth who has spent over a decade working to solve an epic mystery hiding in plain historical sight: did anyone survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD? Tired of hearing the conventional narrative that every Pompeiian perished without any evidence to back it up, Classicist Steven Tuck decides to look into it himself. Although he is nearly two millennia late to ground zero, he uses all the available evidence to reimagine the disaster from the perspective of the people on the ground. Could anyone have survived the volcano? If they did, could they have survived what came after that: earthquakes, tsunamis, pumice stones hurtling like missiles from the sky? If someone did survive, what happened to them after that??! To find out we have to think, feel and possibly even eat like Ancient Romans. An against-all-odds story of a disaster without warning, a mass disappearance without a trace, and oddly, a particularly stinky fish sauce, care of special guest Chef Samin Nosrat. EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Latif Nasser, with help from Annie McEwen and Ekedi Fausther-Keeys.Produced by Annie McEwen.Recording help from Adam Howell.Voice acting by Brandon Dalton.Original music and sound design contributed by Jeremy Bloom and Annie McEwen, with mixing help from Arianne Wack.Hosting help from Sarah Qari.Fact-checking by Emily Krieger.Edited by Pat Walters.Recipes:Ancient Roman recipe for garum: archive.org/details/Geoponica02/page/n329/mode/2upRead more about garum here: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/garum.htmlOr in Sally Grainger’s book "The Story of Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce and Salted Fish in the Ancient World."Articles:On Pliny's letters and the eruption including a reanalysis of the date of the eruption, Pedar Foss, Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius: routledge.com/Pliny-and-the-Eruption-of-Vesuvius/Foss/p/book/9781032225418?srsltid=AfmBOoofwXQATtJI_bwanyVvEJ__vmKnblGpPnHJunG3nrEJ8HlwbGj2Documentaries:A recent PBS documentary, "Pompeii: The New Dig," including segments on Steven Tuck’s work: pbs.org/show/pompeii-the-new-digPhotos and Maps:To trace building locations or names of home owners as well as photos of every square inch of Pompeii: pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpicturesFrom Steven Tuck: “If someone has an otherwise unbeatable case of insomnia, my preliminary publication of findings is in Reflections: Harbour City Deathscapes in Roman Italy and Beyond” https://edizioniquasar.it/products/reflections-harbour-city-deathscapes-in-roman-italy-and-beyondBrief description of the casts and casting process of the remains found at Pompeii: pompeiisites.org/en/pompeii-map/analysis/the-castsMaps of the Ancient Roman world that you can use to trace some of the land and sea routes discussed in the episode: https://orbis.stanford.edu🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Extreme Squirrels In the Arctic from Radiolab For Kids Presents: Terrestrials | Behind the Scenes Radiolab 2024-09-26 | Way up in the Arctic, when the weather gets really cold, the squirrels who live there can drop their body temperatures down below freezing and somehow, miraculously, survive.Terrestrials host Lulu Miller travels to Alaska to meet one of these squirrels as it sleeps, and she talks with biologists Dr. Kelly Drew and Dr. Brian Barnes about why this humble squirrel holds huge potential for treating Alzheimers, brain injury, and even helping astronauts hibernate on the long journey to Mars.Listen to "The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels In the Arctic" here: link.chtbl.com/radiolabforkids?sid=youtube.terrestrials🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Video by Amy Pearl.
The Stumpisode: The Wild World of Tree Stumps! | Terrestrials | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-23 | As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. From stumps to snags, deadwood provides habitat for rodents, falcons, insects and even humans! Stumps hold together the forest floor, give hunting perches to birds of prey in flatlands, prevent erosion and the encroachment of invasive species, usher in sunlight, provide nutrients, can be wells of renewable fuel, and hold onto stories human beings might have forgotten. Without these ghosts of trees past, nothing would be the same. Scottish author, artist and lover of tree stumps, Dr. Amanda Thomson, leads host Lulu Miller on a “tour de stumps,” a journey across space and time to learn about some of the most magical stumps on the planet. We learn how these overlooked dead things actually sustain the living.For more, check out:• Bob Dolgan’s documentary about Tyler Funk and “The Magic Stump" — turnstoneimpact.com/the-magic-stump.html• Amanda Thomson’s book “Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home" — passingplace.com/section/513059-belonging.html🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Illustration by Tara Anand.Video by Kim Nowacki.
The Times They Are a-Changin | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-21 | From the Radiolab podcast: This episode first aired back in December of 2013, and at the start of that new year, the team was cracking open fossils, peering back into ancient seas, and looking up at lunar skies only to find that a year is not quite as fixed as we thought it was.With the help of paleontologist Neil Shubin, reporter Emily Graslie and the Field Museum's Paul Mayer, we discover that our world is full of ancient coral calendars. Each one of these sea skeletons reveals that once upon a very-long-time-ago, years were shorter by more thant 40 days. And astrophysicist Chis Impey helps us comprehend how the change is all to be blamed on a celestial slow dance with the moon. Plus, Robert Krulwich indulges his curiosity about stopping time and counteracting the spinning of the spheres by taking astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on a (theoretical) trip to Venus with a rooster and sprinter Usain Bolt.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Livin in a Tree Hole from Radiolab For Kids Presents: Terrestrials | Behind the Scenes Radiolab 2024-09-19 | As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. From stumps to snags, deadwood provides habitat for rodents, falcons, insects, and even humans! Two of those humans were the Pringle Brothers, who LIVED INSIDE a large sycamore tree in West Virginia. Terrestrials' “Songbud" Alan Goffinski takes us inside (literally).Listen to "The Stumpisode: The Wild World of Tree Stumps!" here: bit.ly/4en9BuA🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Video by Alan Goffinski and Ana González.
Get Ready to Explore a New Season of Terrestrials! #podcast Radiolab 2024-09-19 | A whole new season of Terrestrials is here!Terrestrials is Radiolab's spin-off nature show for families and for people of all ages that explores the strangeness that exists right here on Earth. Each episode feels like a fairytale that is 100% true. Host Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab) leads you on a nature walk to encounter incredible creatures, wild storytellers and original songs from "The Songbud" Alan Goffinski. That's right! We sing on this show; don't worry, good voices not required. Listen with your whole family. Or all alone.This season, we are tackling the overlooked — the treasures, secrets and wildness waiting right underneath our noses. From tree stumps, to lichen, to humble squirrels that fade into the background so easily. When you look close at the creatures we usually ignore, you’ll find all kinds of secrets hidden inside. Terrestrials welcomes entomologist Dr. Sammy Ramsey as the show’s official “Bug Correspondent.” The show’s “Songbud,” composer Alan Goffinski, returns with new songs featuring guest performances from Laura Jane Grace, Tasha, Timbre and Mike Kinsella of American Football. Over the course of the season, Miller talks to poets, painters, NASA scientists, Indigenous bee hunters, 11-year-old skaters, arctic biologists, and “The Badgers” — a panel of kids who badger experts with their pressing questions. The seven-episode season begins on Sept. 19, 2024, in the Radiolab for Kids podcast feed. Episodes come out every Thursday.🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts.👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — https://x.com/radiolabFacebook — facebook.com/radiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabTikTok — tiktok.com/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.Video by Amy Pearl with help from Joe Plourde and Kim Nowacki
Shell Game | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-14 | From the Radiolab podcast: One man secretly hands off more and more of his life to an AI voice clone.Today, we feature veteran journalist Evan Ratliff, who for his new podcast Shell Game, decided to slowly replace himself bit by bit with an AI voice clone, to see how far he could actually take it. Could it do the mundane phone calls he’d prefer to skip? Could it get legal advice for him? Could it go to therapy for him? Could it parent his kids? Ratliff feeds his bot the most intimate details about his life, and lets the bot loose in high-stakes situations at home and at work. Which bizarro version of him will show up? The desperately agreeable conversationalist, the crank-yanking prank caller, the glitched out stranger who sounds like he’s in the middle of a mental breakdown, or someone else entirely? Will people believe it’s really him? And how will they act if they don’t? A gonzo journalistic experiment for the age of AI, that’s funny and eerie all at the same time.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Evan Ratliff.Produced by Sophie Bridges and Simon Adler, with help from Evan Ratliff.Fact-checking by Emily Krieger.If you want to listen to more of Evan’s Shell Game, you can do so here, shellgame.co 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Big Little Questions | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-07 | From the Radiolab podcast: Here at the show, we get A LOT of questions — tiny questions, big questions, weird questions, poop questions. We get them all.And over the years, as more and more of these questions arrived in our inbox, what happened was, guiltily, we put them off to the side, in a bucket of sorts, where they just sat around, unanswered. But now, we’re dumping the bucket out.First aired back in 2017, our producers pick up a few of the questions that spilled out of that bucket, and venture out into the great unknown to find answers to some of life's greatest mysteries: coincidences, miracles, life, death, fate, will, and, of course, poop.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Wild Talk | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-05 | From the Radiolab for Kids podcast: We eavesdrop on the world of animals. Think about the sounds you hear on a daily basis. Air conditioners whirring, keyboards clicking, cars honking, mosquitos buzzing, dishes clanking. Now picture yourself in a jungle. What do you hear? How do you make sense of it?In this episode of Radiolab for Kids, we eavesdrop on the world of animals. We bring you a story of two humans decoding animal sounds in nature. Science journalist Ari Daniel Shapiro tells us about Klaus Zuberbuehler and his time in the Tai forest of Africa, where he worked to uncover what a Diana monkey is trying to say. We then head to a prairie, where Con Slobodchikoff dives into the world of prairie dog chirps. Both researchers decipher the “words” these animals are using to communicate to figure out what they talk about. Episode Segments:0:00 Intro1:39 Diana monkeys 6:31 Prairie dogsRead more:Klaus Zuberbuehler and his work in the Tai Forest of West Africa: cambridge.org/core/books/monkeys-of-the-tai-forest/28B2AE45455B04D227DD45044FAC8703Con Slobodchikoff and his work on prairie dogs: conslobodchikoff.com🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by Kim Nowacki
New Episodes of Terrestrials Are Coming Soon! | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-09-05 | A whole new season of Terrestrials is coming! Enjoy a sneak peek of the people, places and creatures who have life-changing secrets to share. Terrestrials is Radiolab's spin-off nature show for families and for people of all ages that explores the strangeness that exists right here on Earth. Each episode feels like a fairytale that is 100% true. Host Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab) leads you on a nature walk to encounter incredible creatures, wild storytellers and original songs from "The Songbud" Alan Goffinski. That's right! We sing on this show; don't worry, good voices not required. Listen in with your whole family. Or all alone.This season, we are tackling the overlooked — the treasures, secrets and wildness waiting right underneath our noses. From tree stumps, to lichen, to humble squirrels that fade into the background so easily. When you look close at the creatures we usually ignore, you’ll find all kinds of secrets hidden inside. Terrestrials welcomes entomologist Dr. Sammy Ramsey as the show’s official “Bug Correspondent.” The show’s “Songbud,” composer Alan Goffinski, returns with new songs featuring guest performances from Laura Jane Grace, Tasha, Timbre and Mike Kinsella of American Football. Over the course of the season, Miller talks to poets, painters, NASA scientists, Indigenous bee hunters, 11-year-old skaters, arctic biologists, and “The Badgers” — a panel of kids who badger experts with their pressing questions. The seven-episode season begins on Sept. 19 in the Radiolab for Kids podcast feed. Episodes come out every Thursday.🎧 Subscribe to Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Terrestrials and Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQIllustration by Tara Anand Video by Kim Nowacki
Uneasy as ABC | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-31 | From the Radiolab podcast: How a plane crash in Nebraska gave us the modern ER. February 1976. A flight out of California turned catastrophic when it crashed into a farm in rural Nebraska. What happened that night at the local hospital, and crucially, what went wrong, would inspire a global sea-change in how emergency rooms operate and fundamentally alter the way doctors think in a crisis.CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains graphic descriptions of the aftermath of a plane crash. Listen with care.Special thanks to Jody and Jay Upright, Heather Talbott, Dr. Ron Simon, Dr. John Sutyak, Dr. Paul Collicott, Irvene Hughe, Maimonides Medical Center, Karl Sukhia and Vanya Zvonar.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Avir Mitra, with help from Maria Paz Gutierrez, Sarah Qari, Becca Bressler, Suzie Lechtenberg, Heather Radke and Ana Gonzalez.Produced by Maria Paz Gutierrez, Becca Bressler and Pat Walters, with help from Ana Gonzalez.Original music and sound design contributed by Maria Paz Gutierrez and Jeremy Bloom, with mixing help from Jeremy Bloom.Fact-checking by Diane Kelly.Edited by Becca Bressler and Pat Walters.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Why Do I Love the Fly That’s Eating My Brain? | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-29 | From the Radiolab for Kids podcast: Scientists often see the world differently than the rest of us. We bring you two stories — one about a math guy and one about a bug guy. First, how the math guy — or one of our country's greatest mathematicians, Steven Strogatz — first became enchanted with math as a kid. Then, a story about a human developing a soft corner (literally) for a fly that lived in his scalp — the botfly. Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne went on a research trip to Costa Rica and returned home with a botfly feeding on his flesh. His friend Sarah Rogerson was a little less charmed, and they both were surprised by the creature that ultimately emerged from his head.Episode Segments:0:00 Intro1:43 The math guy6:09 The bug guyRead more:"Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne: whyevolutionistrue.com/books/why-evolution-is-true🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by Kim Nowacki
More Perfect: The Gun Show | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-24 | From the Radiolab podcast: In 2008, the Supreme Court stepped in to settle our fight over the Second Amendment’s meaning. They did. And they didn’t.Given that we’re in the thick of the 2024 presidential race, and how gun rights and regulations are almost always centerstage during these times, we’re re-releasing a More Perfect episode that aired just after the October 2017 Las Vegas shooting. It is an episode that attempts to make sense of our country’s fraught relationship with the Second Amendment.For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and '70s, a movement emerged — led by Black Panthers and a recently-repositioned NRA — that insisted owning a firearm was the right of each and every American. So began a Constitutional debate that only the Supreme Court could solve. That didn’t happen until 2008, when a Washington, D.C. security guard named Dick Heller made a compelling case.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Up in Smoke | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-17 | From the Radiolab podcast: Wildfires, a mysterious outbreak, and a question — is there something in the smoke? Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call — the hospital she works at is having an outbreak of unknown origin, in the middle of the worst wildfire season on record. In the second, an ecologist stands in a forest, watching it burn. Through very different circumstances, they both find themselves asking the same question: is there something in the smoke? This question will bring them together, and reveal — to all of us — a world we never saw before. This is the first episode in an ongoing series hosted by Molly Webster, in conversation with scientists and science-y people, doing work at the furthest edges of what we know. More to come! Special thanks to Leda Kobziar, at the University of Idaho, and Naomi Hauser, at the University of California, Davis. Plus, James and Shelby Kaemmerer, and Paula and John Troche.EPISODE CREDITS: Hosted and Reported by Molly Webster.Produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan.Fact-checking by Diane A. Kelly.Edited by Pat Walters.EPISODE CITATIONS:Want to learn more about bacteria in snow-making machines? Check out this New York Times article: nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/its-buggy-out-there.html Or this science-explainer: science.org/content/article/video-these-microbes-are-key-making-artificial-snowRead Leda’s paper on microbes in smoke: nature.com/articles/s43705-022-00089-5For more details on the outbreak at Naomi’s hospital, you can check out this abstract of her findings: academic.oup.com/ofid/article/9/Supplement_2/ofac492.1207/6902972Leda was inspired to stick petri dishes into smoke after reading a science research paper written by a father-daughter team, as part of a high school science project in Texas. Go read it: sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231003009142?casa_token=iLsF%5B%E2%80%A6%5DBlMGQwSjoh8BCrePmHCvqG8vlCC3i0tBAij9f3x53jbZpEsHlVssvKeupwFor further fungal listening, Radiolab and Molly have covered fungus and hospital outbreaks before (plus: dinosaurs!), in our episode "Fungus Amungus": radiolab.org/podcast/fungus-amungusYou can also listen to "Super Cool," a Radiolab episode about wild horses, microbes and things freezing instantaneously. (It’s seriously one of Molly’s favorite Radiolab episodes and it has a moment of such SPONTANEOUS joy, she re-plays it at least once a year to smile.) Listen here: radiolab.org/podcast/super-cool-2017🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Human vs. Horse | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-15 | From the Radiolab for Kids podcast: A story about a race where a human competes against a horse that has everything to do with what gives us humans our humanity, and our butts.The Summer Olympics in Paris have come to a close, wrapping up another epic round of humans racing against other humans from all across the globe. But you know the one race they didn't have? The one where a human competes against a horse. In this Radiolab for Kids episode, we head to that race in the desert of Arizona. Turns out it has everything to do with what gives us humans our humanity. Also our butts.Reporter Heather Radke and Producer Matt Kielty talk to researchers who followed the butt from our ancient beginnings through millions of years of evolution, all the way to today, out to a valley in Arizona, where our butts are put to the ultimate test.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by Kim Nowacki
Sleep | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-10 | From the Radiolab podcast: Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question — why do we sleep?We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does — from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep? What does it do for us, and what happens when we go without? We take a peek at iguanas sleeping with one eye open, get in bed with a pair of sleep-deprived new parents, and eavesdrop on the uneasy dreams of rats. 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Terrestrials: The Trio | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-03 | From the Radiolab podcast: Look up in the sky! It is something that scientists thought could never happen.This episode comes from the Radiolab for Kids series Terrestrials. A new season of Terrestrials kicks off in September 2024 in the Radiolab for Kids podcast feed: bit.ly/4cfL7BWHigh above the banks of the Mississippi river, a nest holds the secret life of one of America’s most patriotic creatures. Their story puzzles scientists, reinforces indigenous wisdom, and wows audiences, all thanks to a park ranger named Ed, and a well-placed webcam. If you want to spoil the mystery, here ya go: it’s a bald eagle. Actually, it’s three bald eagles. A mama bird and daddies make a home together for more than a decade and give new meaning to our national symbol. Learn about the storytellers, listen to music and dig deeper into the stories you hear on Terrestrials with activities you can do at home or in the classroom here: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids/projects/terrestrials Watch “I Wanna Hear the Eagle” and find even more original Terrestrials fun on YouTube here: bit.ly/3Ac1x0S 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labEPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Ana González and Lulu Miller, with help from Alan Goffinski.Produced by Ana González, Alan Goffinski and Lulu Miller, with help from Suzie Lechtenberg, Sarah Sandbach, Natalia Ramirez and Sarita Bhatt.Original music and sound design contributed by Alan Goffinski and Mira Burt-Wintonick, with mixing help from Joe Plourde and Jeremy Bloom.Fact-checking by Diane Kelley.Edited by Mira Burt-Wintonick.Extra Terrestrials: • Check out The Trio Bald Eagle Nest Cam yourself:stewardsumrr.org/webcams/bald-eagle-nest-cam-live-1 • Did you know it’s illegal to keep a bald eagle feather? Learn more in this AWESOME short video about the National Eagle Repository: theatlantic.com/video/index/374819/wildlife-warehouse• An interview with Nataanii Means in Native Maxx Magazine: nativemaxmagazine.com/creative-genius-nataanii-means • The funny history of how the bald eagle became America’s national symbol: theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/bald-eagle-america-history-jack-e-davis/621311 • An article called “Dirty Birds” about what it’s actually like to live with America’s national symbol: story.californiasunday.com/dirty-birds • Journey up into the clouds like an eagle with a special drawing prompt made by artist Wendy Mac and the DrawTogether team that will get you thinking about the weather (both inside and out): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dt-podcast-is-back-baby/id1605016385?i=1000580430569• Learn how to play the chords to the song “I Wanna Hear the Eagle” media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2022/Oct/04/3._I_Want_To_Hear_The_Eagle_Chord_Chart.pdf• Get crafty with a fun activity sheet: media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2022/Oct/04/The_Trio_Activity_Sheet.pdfThis week’s storytellers are Ed Britton and Nataanii Means. Our advisors are Theanne Griffith, Aliyah Elijah, Dominique Shabazz, Liza Steinberg-Demby and Tara Welty.🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Gorilla in the Room | Radiolab for Kids Podcast Radiolab 2024-08-01 | From the Radiolab for Kids podcast: Is there such a thing as a good cage? Happy gorillas, deft landscape architects and neurologists show us that there just might be.We go back to the late 1970s to relive the moment when zoos began to change — literally the moment that the modern zoo was born, as embodied by a few tentative steps of a gorilla named Kiki. That story is told by zoo director David Hancocks, architect Grant Jones, and gorilla keeper Violet Sunde. 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab for Kids wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/4cfL7BW🌱 Listen to more Radiolab for Kids episodes on YouTube: bit.ly/3YCcOBE🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab and Radiolab for Kids on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌎 Radiolab for Kids features episodes about nature every other week. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes full of songs and silliness, sometimes they will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, family-friendliest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. You’ll always get a little hello from host Lulu Miller, and we hope that this feed will feel like a nature walk, a place you can show up and explore and always encounter something unexpected out there in the wilderness. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew.🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by Kim Nowacki
Lose Lose | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-07-27 | From the Radiolab podcast: This episode we look at a high-profile sporting event where, thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, the best shot at winning was to lose. To celebrate the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found the most paradoxical and upside down badminton match of all time. A match that dumbfounded spectators, officials, and even the players themselves. And it got us to wondering: what would sports look like if everyone played to lose?Special thanks to Aparna Nancherla, Mark Phelan, Yuni Kartika, Greysia Polii, Joy Le Li, Mikyoung Kim, Stan Bischof, Vincent Liew, Kota Morikowa, Christ de Roij and Haeryun Kang.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
How to Save a Life | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-07-20 | From the Radiolab podcast: What would you do if someone’s heart stopped right in front of you? We get it, the world feels too bleak and too big for you to make a difference. But there is one thing — one simple, tangible thing — you can do to make all the difference in the world to someone, possibly even a loved one, at arguably the worst moment of their life.Statistics show that one out of every five people on Earth will die of heart failure. Cardiac arrests can happen anywhere, anytime — in your bed, on the street, on your honeymoon. And every minute that passes after your heart stops beating, your chances of surviving drop dramatically. For all the strides modern medicine has made in treating heart conditions, the ambulance still doesn’t always make it in time. The only person who can keep you alive during those crucial first few minutes is a stranger, a neighbor, your partner, anyone nearby willing to perform CPR. Yet most of us don’t do anything.Join Radiolab host Latif Nasser, ER doctor and Radiolab contributor Avir Mitra, and TikTok stars Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken, as we discover the fascinating science of cardiac arrest, hear a true and harrowing story of a near-death experience, and hunt down the best place to die (hint: it’s not a hospital). Plus, with the help of the American Red Cross and the Bee Gees, you, yes you, will learn how to do hands-only CPR!Special thanks to Will and Kristin Flanary, of course. Check out the Glaucomfleken's own podcast Knock Knock, Hi — glaucomflecken.com/podcastSpecial thanks to The Greene Space here at WNYC’s home in NYC: first of all Jennifer Sendrow, who really made it happen and helped us make it work at basically every stage of the process, and the rest of The Greene Space crew: Carlos Cruz Figueroa, Chase Culpon, Ricardo Fernández, Jessica Lowery, Skye Pallo Ross, Eric Weber, Ryan Andrew Wilde and Andrew Yanchyshyn.Also, thank you to the Red Cross for helping us make this happen and providing the CPR dummies, and all the people we had there doing the training: Ashley London, Jeanette Nicosia, Charlene Yung, Jacob Stebel, Tye Morales, Anna Stacy and Aditya Shekhar.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Avir Mitra.With mixing help from Jeremy Bloom.Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton.Check out the whole show in its full glory here: youtube.com/live/VHx4aJ0k04o?si=JrpjbhzEsPIhZ_zHWill Flanary’s YouTube channel, Dr. Glaucomflecken: youtube.com/@DGlaucomfleckenData: Worldwide causes of death: ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-by-causeMusic:The perfect playlist for a CPR Emergency: open.spotify.com/playlist/7oJx24EcRU7fIVoTdqKscKClasses:If you’d like to sign up to learn CPR, and get certified, the Red Cross provides classes all across the country and online: redcross.org/take-a-class🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-07-13 | From the Radiolab podcast: Radiolab wishes Oliver Sacks a happy birthday.First aired back in 2013, we originally released this episode to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of our favorite human beings, the late Oliver Sacks. To celebrate, his good friend and our former co-host Robert Krulwich, asked the good doctor to look back, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Alford Plea | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-07-06 | From the Radiolab podcast: A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence. In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal — one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does. Special thanks to John Lentini, Amanda Gillooly, Fred Buckner, Debbie Steinmeyer, Marissa Bluestine, Jason Hazlewood, Meredith Kennedy, Kristen Vermilya, Joshua Ceballos and Lauren Cooperman.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Birdie in the Cage | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-06-29 | From the Radiolab podcast: Can you fit the identity of a whole nation into a dance? Of course not. But we tried anyway.People have been doing the square dance since before the Declaration of Independence. But does that mean it should be the American folk dance? That question took us on a journey from Appalachian front porches, to dance classes across our nation, to the halls of Congress, and finally a Kansas City convention center. And along the way, we uncovered a secret history of square dancing that made us see how much of our national identity we could stuff into that square, and what it means for a dance to be of the people, by the people, and for the people.Special thanks to Jim Mayo, Claude Fowler, Paul Gifford, Jim Maczko, Jim Davis, Paul Moore, Jack Pladdys, Mary Jane Wegener, Kinsey Brooke and Connie Keener.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Aphantasia | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-06-22 | From the Radiolab podcast: What does it mean to see — and not see — in your mind?Close your eyes and imagine a red apple. What do you see? Turns out there’s a whole spectrum of answers to that question, and producer Sindhu Gnanasambandan is on one far end. Episode Credits:Reported and produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan with help from Annie McEwen.Original music and sound design contributed by Dylan Keefe with mixing help from Jeremy Bloom and Arianne Wack.Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton.Edited by Pat Walters.Special thanks to Kim Nederveen Pieterse, Nathan Peereboom, Lizzie Peabody, Kristin Lin, Jo Eidman, Mark Nakhla, Andrew Leland and Brian Radcliffe.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Argentine Invasion | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-06-08 | From the Radiolab podcast: Think of that anthill in your backyard, now stretch it out over five continents.From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, in this episode from 2012, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clock in at just a fraction of an inch, they have evolved a surprising, successful, and rather unsettling strategy of ironclad loyalty, absolute intolerance and brutal violence.David Holway, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist from U.C. San Diego, takes us to a driveway in Escondido, California, where a grisly battle rages. In this quiet suburban spot, two groups of ants are putting on a chilling display of dismemberment and death. According to David, this battleline marks the edge of an enormous super-colony of Argentine ants. Think of that anthill in your backyard, and stretch it out across five continents.Argentine ants are not good neighbors. When they meet ants from another colony — any other colony — they fight to the death, and tear the other ants to pieces. While other kinds of ants sometimes take slaves or even have sex with ants from different colonies, the Argentine ants don’t fool around. If you’re not part of the colony, you’re dead.According to evolutionary biologist Neil Tsutsui and ecologist Mark Moffett, the flood plains of northern Argentina offer a clue as to how these ants came to dominate the planet. Because of the frequent flooding, the homeland of Linepithema humile is basically a bootcamp for badass ants. One day, a couple ants from one of these families of Argentine ants made their way onto a boat and landed in New Orleans in the late 1800s. Over the last century, these Argentine ants wreaked havoc across the southern U.S. and a significant chunk of coastal California.In fact, Melissa Thomas, an Australian entomologist, reveals that these Argentine ants are even more well-heeled than we expected — they've made to every continent except Antarctica. No matter how many thousands of miles separate individual ants, when researchers place two of them together — whether they're plucked from Australia, Japan, Hawaii, or even Easter Island — they recognize each other as belonging to the same super-colony.But the really mind-blowing thing about these little guys is the surprising success of their us-versus-them death-dealing. Jad and Robert wrestle with what to make of this ant regime, whether it will last, and what, if anything, it might mean for other warlike organisms with global ambitions.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moon Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Mixtapes to the Moon | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-06-01 | From the Radiolab podcast: They promised to change you. They ended up changing all of us.On July 20, 1969, humanity watched as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. It was the dazzling culmination of a decade of teamwork, a collective global experience unlike anything before or since, a singular moment in which every human being was invited to feel part of something larger than themselves. There was however, one man who was left out. In this episode of Radiolab, we explore what it means to be together and — of course — the cassette tapes that changed it. Special thanks to WBUR and the team at City Space for having us and recording this event; all the other folks and venues that hosted us on tour; Sarah Rose Leonard and Lance Gardner at KQED for developing this show with us; and Alex Overington for musically bringing it to life. EPISODE CREDITS:Reported and produced by Simon Adler.Original music and sound design contributed by Alex Overington.Fact-checking by Emily Krieger.Edited by Soren Wheeler.Videos:• Check out Zack Taylor’s beautiful documentary CASSETTE: A Documentary Mixtape vimeo.com/127216590• Mall videos referenced in the episode - youtu.be/bPrZOk1DgGY?si=l8dE8_GUxHznuqHL🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Name a Quasi-Moon: A contest from Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union Radiolab 2024-06-01 | 🚀 🌕 We've got some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, we named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with the International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons.Submit your name ideas now through September here: radiolab.org/moonThis is your chance to make your mark on the heavens! 🌌 ✨#NameThatQuasiMoon🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow @Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by Kim Nowacki
Mixtapes to the Moon | Mall Video | Podcast Extra Radiolab 2024-05-31 | Here are the videos mentioned in the episode "Mixtapes to the Moon" — youtu.be/2Q-mEqtGYrI🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabSignup for our newsletter. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-lab
Lucy | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-05-25 | From the Radiolab podcast: Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family.This episode — a mashup of content stretching all the way back to 2010 — asks the question, is cross-species co-habitation an utterly stupid idea? Or might it be our one last hope as more and more humans fill up the planet? A chimp named Lucy teaches us the ups and downs of growing up human, and a visit to The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, highlights some of the basics of bonobo culture (be careful, they bite).Photo:Lucy and Janis hugging: https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/channel-4s-lucy-human-chimp-23922107Video: Lucy throughout the years: vimeo.com/9377513🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Selected Shorts | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-05-18 | From the Radiolab podcast: A selection of short flights of fact and fancy performed live on stage.Usually we tell true stories on this show, but earlier this spring Radiolab co-hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser were invited to guest host a live show called Selected Shorts, a New York City institution that presents short fiction performed on stage by great actors — you’ll often find Tony, Emmy and Oscars winners on their stage.We treated the evening a bit like a Radiolab episode, selecting a theme, and choosing several stories related to that theme. The stories we picked were all about “flight” in one way or another, and came from great writers like Brian Doyle, Miranda July, Don Shea and Margaret Atwood. As we traveled from the flight of a hummingbird, to an airplane seat beside a celebrity, to the mind of a bat, we found these stories pushing us past the edge of what we thought we could know, in the way that all truly great writing does.CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode does contain some curse words.Special thanks to Abubakr Ali, Becca Blackwell, Molly Bernard, Zach Grenier, Drew Richardson, Jennifer Brennan and the whole team at Selected Shorts and Symphony Space.Credits: Produced by Maria Paz Gutiérrez.Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton.Edited by Pat Walters.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Memory and Forgetting | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-05-11 | From the Radiolab podcast: Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. In this episode from 2007, we look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgotten.The act of recalling in our minds something that happened in the past is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process — it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. Then, Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his seven-second memory.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Terrestrials is Coming Back for Season 2 in September Radiolab 2024-05-09 | The Radiolab for Kids podcast feed is coming back and so is Terrestrials!!!Host Lulu Miller and the team will be back with Season 2 of Terrestrials in September. Until then, head to the Radiolab for Kids podcast feed where this summer we're dropping our favorite kid-friendly stories about plants and animals.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab For Kids Presents: Terrestrials wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3xhCghk🔊 Listen to the full episodes of the first season of Terrestrials on YouTube: bit.ly/3fvmtVY🐴 Watch video extras from each episode of Terrestrials: bit.ly/3rjbG44🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment! Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labIllustration by Tara AnandVideo by Kim Nowacki
Small Potatoes | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-04-27 | From the Radiolab podcast: An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.Most of our stories are about the big stuff: Important or dramatic events, big ideas that transform the world around us or inspire conflict and struggle and change. But most of our lives, day by day or hour by hour, are made up of not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call “small potatoes.” In this episode of Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the everyday, and find out what happens when you take a good hard look at the things we all usually overlook.Special thanks to Moeko Fujii, Kelley Conway, Robin Kelley, Jason Isaacs and Andrew Semans.CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains a couple of curse words.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Distance of the Moon | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-04-21 | From the Radiolab podcast: How far is the moon, really? Could you get there with a ladder?In an episode we last featured on our Radiolab for Kids podcast feed back in 2020 — and in honor of its blocking out the sun for a bit of us for a bit last week — in this episode, we’re gonna talk more about the moon. According to one theory, (psst listen our episode "The Moon Itself" if you want to know more) the moon formed when a Mars-sized chunk of rock collided with Earth; the moon coalesced out of the debris from that impact. And it was MUCH closer to Earth than it is today. This idea is taken to its fanciful limit in Italo Calvino's story "The Distance of the Moon" (from his collection Cosmicomics, translated by William Weaver). Read by Liev Schreiber, the story is narrated by a character with the impossible-to-pronounce name Qfwfq, and tells of a strange crew who jump between Earth and moon, and sometimes hover in the nether reaches of gravity between the two.This reading was part of a live event hosted by Radiolab and Selected Shorts, and it originally aired on WNYC’s and PRI’s Selected Shorts, hosted by BD Wong and paired with a Ray Bradbury classic, “All Summer in a Day,” read by musical theater star Michael Cerveris.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Moon Itself | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-04-13 | From the Radiolab podcast: As the total solar eclipse approached, we set out to ask: who is the moon, really?On Monday, April 8, 2024, for a large swath of North America, the sun disappeared in the middle of the day. Everywhere, people were talking about the total solar eclipse. What will it feel like when the sun goes away? What will the blocked-out sun look like? But all this talk of the sun got us thinking: wait, what about the moon? The only reason this whole solar eclipse thing is happening is because the moon is stepping in front of the sun. So in this episode, we stop treating the moon like a bit player in this epic cosmic event, and place it centerstage. We get to know the moon, itself — from birth, to middle age, to death.This episode was reported by Molly Webster, Pat Walters, Becca Bressler, Alan Goffinski, Maria Paz Guttierez, Sarah Qari, Simon Adler and Alex Neason; and produced by Matt Kielty, Becca Bressler, Pat Walters, Maria Paz Guttierrez, Alan Goffinski and Simon Adler. It was edited by Becca Bressler and Pat Walters. Fact-checked by Diane Kelly and Natalie A. Middleton. Original Music and sound design by Matt Kielty, Jeremy Bloom and Simon Adler. Mixing help from Arianne Wack.Special thanks to Rebecca Boyle, Patrick Leverone and Daryl Pitts at the Maine Gem and Mineral Museum in Bethel, Maine; Renee Weber; Paul M. Sutter; Matt Siegler; Sarah Noble; and Chucky P.Books:Rebecca Boyle’s book, "Our Moon: How the Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution and Made Us Who We Are" — penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611468/our-moon-by-rebecca-boyle🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Finding Emilie | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-03-30 | From the Radiolab podcast: What does it mean to see? One artist finds new ways to navigate the world, and tell us what she sees, after sight.This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again.Then, at the end of the episode, and a full decade later, we catch up with Emilie and talk about her art, her heart, a dog named London and the movie "The Fifth Element." Exhibition: Emilie L. Gossiaux's "Other-Worlding" at the Queen’s County Museum, which runs through April, 7, 2024: queensmuseum.org/exhibition/other-worldingWatch: A video of Emilie Gossiaux painting with the BrainPort: youtube.com/watch?v=1xYi9oZMVWI 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Throughline: Dare to Dissent | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-03-23 | From the Radiolab podcast: What happens when everyone around you is heading in one direction and you have no choice but to dissent?On today’s show, we’re excited to share an episode from our friends at the podcast @NPRThroughline.Sometimes, the most dangerous and powerful thing a person can do is to stand up not against their enemies, but against their friends. As the United States heads into what will likely be another bitter and divided election year, there will be more and more pressure to stand with our in-groups rather than our consciences.So the Throughline team decided to tell some of the stories of people who have stood up to that kind of pressure. Some are names we know, others we likely never will. What those people did, what it cost them, and why they did it anyway.Check out the full version of “Dare to Dissent” here: npr.org/2023/11/30/1198908264/dare-to-dissent 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Staph Retreat | Radiolab Podcasts Radiolab 2024-03-16 | From the Radiolab podcast: What happens when you combine an axe-wielding microbiologist and a disease-obsessed historian? A strange brew that's hard to resist, even for a modern day microbe.In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. The antibiotics we once wielded like miraculous flaming swords seem more like lukewarm butter knives. But today we follow an odd couple to a storied land of elves and dragons. There, they uncover a 1,000-year-old secret that makes us reconsider our most basic assumptions about human progress and wonder: what if the only way forward is backward?Reported by Latif Nasser. Produced by Matt Kielty and Soren Wheeler.Special thanks to Steve Diggle, Professor Roberta Frank, Alexandra Reider and Justin Park (our Old English readers), Gene Murrow from Gotham Early Music Scene, Marcia Young for her performance on the medieval harp and Collin Monro of Tadcaster and the rest of the Barony of Iron Bog.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Hold On | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-03-09 | From the Radiolab podcast: The quest for the hightest-stakes hold music of all time. Two years ago, the United States did something amazing. In response to the mental health crisis the federal government launched 988 — a nationwide, easy to remember phone number that anyone can call anytime and talk to a counselor. It was 911 but for mental health and they hoped that it would save lives. However, if you call 988 today the first thing you hear isn’t a sympathetic counselor. What you hear is hold music.Today, the story of the highest stakes hold music in the universe, the three men who created suicide prevention and the two women trying to fix it. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank discussions having to do with the topic of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, there’s help available. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is open 24 hours a day by calling or texting 988. There’s also a live chat option on their website: 988lifeline.orgSpecial thanks to Dr. Matt Wray, Sherbert Willows, Dani Bennett and Monica Johnson, Shari Sinwelski and the folks at Didi Hirsch, David Green, Jay Kennedy S. Carey and JagJaguwar Records, and George Colt for sharing his cassette taped interviews of Ed Schneidman with us.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Simon Adler.Produced by Simon Adler.Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton.Edited by Pat Walters.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Worlds Smartest Animal | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-03-02 | From the Radiolab podcast: What’s the smartest animal in the world? We figure it out the best way we know how: an animal game show.This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber, a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart — not the animals we intend to study. Dan’s rant got us thinking: what is the smartest animal in the world? And if we threw out our human intelligence rubric, is there a fair way to figure it out?Obviously, there is. And it’s a live game show, judged by Jad, Robert and a dog.This final episode of G, our miniseries on intelligence, was recorded as a live show back in May 2019 at The Greene Space in New York City, and now we’re sharing that game show with you, again. Two science writers, Dan Engber and Laurel Braitman, and two comedians, Tracy Clayton and Jordan Mendoza, compete against one another to find the world’s smartest animal. They treated us to a series of funny, delightful stories about unexpectedly smart animals and helped us shift the way we think about intelligence across all the animals — including us.Special thanks to Bill Berloni and Macy (the dog) and everyone at The Greene Space.Listen to the whole G miniseries here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHAUHF-RPhnrPTs7sr-KW5ZIS_vwANdjCheck out the video of the live event here: youtube.com/live/L3G_KUkjFds?si=K6KKdJzDMVdQlEcF🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Cheating Death | Radiolab Podcasts Radiolab 2024-02-17 | From the Radiolab podcast: A battle against death, to the death, that comes face-to-face with the end of everything ever.In this episode, Maria Paz Gutiérrez does battle against the one absolute truth of human existence and all life — death. After getting a team of scientists to stand in for death (the Grim Reaper wasn’t available), we parry and thrust our way through the myriad ways that death comes for us — from falling pianos to evolution’s disinterest in longevity. In the process, we see if we can find a satisfying answer to the question “why do we have to die” and find ourselves face to face with the bitter end of everything that ever existed.Special thanks to Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, Steven Nadler, Beth Jarosz, Anjana Badrinarayanan, Shaon Chakrabarti, Bob Horvitz, John K. Davis, Jessica Brand, Chandan K. Sen, Cole Imperi, Carl Bergstrom, Erin Gentry -Lam and Jared Silvia. This episode was made in loving memory of Dali Rodriguez.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported and produces by Maria Paz Gutiérrez, with help from Alyssa Jeong Perry and Timmy Broderick.Original music and sound design contributed by Maria Paz Gutiérrez and Jeremy Bloom, with mixing help from Arianne Wack.Fact-checking by Emily Krieger.🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labGuests in this episode include:Photo illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Relative Genius | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-02-10 | From the Radiolab podcast: When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for the origin of genius.Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed away in the early morning hours of April, 18, 1955, his family knew his wishes. There was only one problem: the pathologist who did the autopsy had different plans.In the third episode of “G,” Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence that first aired back in 2019, we go on one of the strangest scavenger hunts for genius the world has ever seen. We follow Einstein’s stolen brain from that Princeton autopsy table, to a cider box in Wichita, Kansas, to labs all across the country. And eventually, beyond the brain itself entirely. All the while wondering, where exactly is the genius of a man who changed the way we view the world? Listen to more of Radiolab's "G" series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHAUHF-RPhnrPTs7sr-KW5ZIS_vwANdjCheck out the Einstein Papers Project here: https://www.einstein.caltech.eduAt the top of this episode, co-host Lulu Miller introduces us to a new podcast series called Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows from The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC.You can listen to full episodes of Blindspot on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUQrcRVuC9YIU4kGVzjspMV7Zx4PrWp6P Or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/485ULow🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Deborah Lee, with edits by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
Zoozve | Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 2024-02-03 | From the Radiolab podcast: A tiny detail on a kid’s solar system poster starts off a cosmic query about our place in the universe. As co-host Latif Nasser was putting his kid to bed one night, he noticed something weird on a solar system poster up on the wall: Venus had a moon called Zoozve. But when he called NASA to ask them about it, they had never heard of Zoozve, and besides that, they insisted that Venus doesn’t have any moons. So begins a tiny mystery that leads to a newly discovered kind of object in our solar system, one that is simultaneously a moon, but also not a moon, and one that waltzes its way into asking one of the most profound questions about our universe: How predictable is it, really? And what does that mean for our place in it?We have some exciting news! In this “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named its first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! Radiolab has teamed up with the International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: radiolab.org/moonSpecial Thanks to Larry Wasserman and everyone else at the Lowell Observatory; Rich Kremer and Marcelo Gleiser of Dartmouth College; and Benjamin Sharkey at the University of Maryland. Thanks to the IAU and their Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature, as well as to the Bamboo Forest class of kindergarteners and first graders. Episode Credits:Reported by Latif Nasser, with help from Ekedi Fausther-Keeys. Produced by Sarah Qari.Original music and sound design contributed by Sarah Qari and Jeremy Bloom, with mixing help from Arianne Wack.Fact-checking by Diane Kelley.Edited by Becca Bressler.Articles:Check out the paper by Seppo Mikkola, Paul Wiegert (whose voices are in the episode) along with colleagues Kimmo Innanen and Ramon Brasser describing this new type of object: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/351/3/L63/1055809The Official Rules and Guidelines for Naming Non-Cometary Small Solar-System Bodies from the IAU Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature can be found here: wgsbn-iau.org/documentation/NamesAndCitations.pdfAll the specs on our strange friend can be found here:ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=2002VE68Check out Liz Landau’s work at NASA's Curious Universe podcast: nasa.gov/podcasts/curious-universeAs well as http://www.lizlandau.comVideos:Fascinating little animation of a horseshoe orbit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_orbit#/media/File:Animation_of_(419624)_2010_SO16_orbit.gifA tadpole orbit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_orbit#/media/File:Animation_of_2010_TK7.gifAnd a quasi-moon orbit: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm/Asteroid2016HO3-SunEarthOrbit.webm.480p.vp9.webmPosters:If you’d like to buy (or even just look at) Alex Foster’s Solar System poster (featuring Zoozve of course), check it out here: alex-foster.com/shop/p/solar-system-map-illustrated-art-printThe first 75 new annual sign-ups to our membership program, The Lab, get one free, autographed by Alex! Existing members of The Lab, look out for a discount code!🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
The Living Room | Radiolab Podcasts Radiolab 2024-01-27 | From the Radiolab podcast: A story about a very eventful year in the life of an accidental voyeur.We're thrilled to present a piece from one of our favorite podcasts, Love + Radio (Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker). Producer Briana Breen brings us the story: Diane’s new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.Please listen to as much of Love + Radio as you can: http://loveandradio.orgAnd, if you are in Seattle Area, or plan to be on Feb. 15, 2024, come check out Radiolab Live and in person: eventbrite.com/e/radiolab-live-how-the-cassette-tape-changed-us-tickets-727065130377?aff=oddtdtcreator🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3trXDLe🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: bit.ly/3I9KI53🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: radiolab.org/newsletter🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: bit.ly/3sX8f4P👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment!Follow Radiolab:Instagram — instagram.com/radiolabX (Twitter) — twitter.com/RadiolabFacebook — facebook.com/RadiolabThreads — threads.net/@radiolabOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up here: radiolab.org/newsletterSupport Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: radiolab.org/the-labPhoto illustration by Jared BartmanVideo by W. Harry Fortuna
