External link In this short, we go looking for the devil, and find ourselves tangled in a web of details surrounding one of the most haunting figures in music--a legendary guitarist whose shadowy life spawned a legend so powerful, it's still being repeated...even by fans who don't believe a word of it.
Race

Janis Joplin

Gray's Donation
External link They buzz. They bite. And they have killed more people than cancer, war, or heart disease. Here’s the question: If you could wipe mosquitoes off the face of the planet, would you?

AC/DC

Straight Outta Chevy Chase

Ann Harding

India

Studio album

KVN

Defying Odds
External Link In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. What if the only way forward is backward?
External Link In 2014 the town of Seneca, Nebraska was so deeply divided that they weighed their own self-destruction.
External link It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour, we try to do just that.
AV Smackdown . . . The Podcast
External Link 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.

A banzai charge is the term used by the Allied forces to refer to Japanese human wave attacks mounted by infantry units. This term came from the Japanese cry "Tennōheika Banzai" (天皇陛下万歳, "Long live the Emperor"), shortened to banzai, specifically referring to a tactic used by Japanese soldiers during the Pacific War.

The Distance of the Moon
External link Is reality an ethereal, mathematical poem... or is it made up of solid, physical stuff? In this short, we kick rocks, slap tables, and argue about the nature of the universe with Jim Holt.

Anna and the King of Siam (film)

Stochasticity
External link From Jonathan Mitchell, a history of the modern shopping mall told through the perspectives of people living in an unnamed city.

Original U.S. Poster

Retrospection

Janis Lyn Joplin

External link Stories about singer who loses her voice and an author caught in a body that never grew up.
The Septendecennial Sing-Along

Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam

External Link Every day, every moment, an epic battle is raging across the globe. This hour, we take a look at borders accidentally drawn and warring microcosms, from ants to phytoplankton to tic tac toe. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom" , "Mutant Rights" , "Argentine Invasion" , and "A War We Need" .
External link The uneasy marriage of biology and engineering raises big questions about the nature of life.
External Link On this episode, the case that pushed one Supreme Court justice to a nervous breakdown, brought a boiling feud to a head, and changed the course of the Supreme Court forever.
The Walls of Jericho
The Power of Music
Musical Language

Ann Arborite

Altorf (German: Altdorf) is a French commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France.The inhabitants of the commune are known as Altorfois or AltorfoisesThe commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.

Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States produced by WNYC. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, each hour-long show focuses on a topic of a scientific and philosophical nature, through stories, interviews, and thought experiments.The show's current format is oriented around a roughly biweekly podcast.
Making the Hippo Dance
Seeing in the Dark
Wanderers, Rwanda Maps and Rhythm n Blues

Lark Harbour is small fishing community on the western coast of Newfoundland, on the south side of the Bay of Islands, and west of the City of Corner Brook.Combined with neighbouring York Harbour, there is a population of about 1,100. Blow-Me-Down Provincial Park lies on the boundary between the two communities.

Los Frikis
Stochasticity Bonus Video!

Bas-Rhin

changed dramatically

Pass the Science
Tell Me A Story
External Link This episode makes three attempts to put a price on the priceless. One story figures out the dollar value for an accidental death, another one day of life, and the third assesses the work of bats and bees and tries to keep careful calculations from falling apart in the face of the realities of life, love, and loss.
External link We examine our beginnings, take a tour of the animal kingdom, and ponder a world where frozen sperm can last for all eternity.
Lucy
External Link Where do you find comfort after the death of a child? Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Gray's Donation" and "Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR" .

Madame Messant

Lark Harbour

External link Psychologist Walter Mischel explains how one little test involving a marshmallow might tell you a frightening amount about what kind of person you are.

Serbia

Radiolab Presents: TJ & Dave
Threat Level
External Link In this episode, strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and, sometimes, propel them to do amazing things. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Damn It, Basal Ganglia" , "Gravitational Anarchy" , "Slow" , and "In the Running" .

Ann C. Noble is a sensory chemist and retired professor from the University of California, Davis. During her time at the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, Noble invented the "Aroma Wheel" which is credited with enhancing the public understanding of wine tasting and terminology. At the time of her hiring at UC Davis in 1974, Noble was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the Viticulture department. Noble retired from Davis in 2002 and in 2003 was named Emeritus Professor of Enology. Since retirement she has participated as a judge in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.

External Link Guests Thomas Cronin, Jules Davidoff, Guy Deutscher, Victoria Finlay, James Gleick, Jonah Lehrer and Jay Neitz share stories about how our world is saturated in color and examine how something so intangible packs such a visceral punch.

Medium

What's Up, Doc?
Sleepless in South Sudan
South Africa

City Administrator

Ann Druyan, executive producer and writer of COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey, accepts the Peabody with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mitchell Cannold and Brannon Braga.

External Link Two stories of humans DIY-ing answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. First, a homemade brain-stimulator that may unlock hidden potential. Then, the story of a family that finds an unlikely way to access their silent son's world. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "9-Volt Nirvana" and "Juicervose" .
External Link Stories about Gary Hart, K-pop, and the erosion of privacy in the media. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "I Don't Have to Answer That" and "K-poparazzi" .
Ghost Stories
Grumpy Old Terrorists
External link Previously unreleased tape from the vault.
External link Stories of mystery, intrigue, and a goat standing on top of a cow.
Patient Zero - Updated
Escape!
Dog Tales

Pearl

Speedy Beet
Shades of Gray
External Link How do we measure the world around us? Today we size things up: from universal standards for measuring mass, to the social cues that help us understand other people’s behavior. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "≤ kg" , "The Trust Engineers" , and "Solid as a Rock" .

Arthur Hastings

M.M. Keeravani

Poop Train
External Link We've all felt it, that irresistible urge to point the finger. But new technologies are complicating age-old moral conundrums about accountability. This hour, we ask what blame does for us -- why do we need it, when isn't it enough, and what happens when we try to push past it with forgiveness and mercy?

William Russell

Anna and the King of Siam

External link In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action figures are toys or dolls and sparks a court case about what it means to be human.

Let There Be Rock is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's third internationally released studio album and the fourth to be released in Australia. All songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott. It was originally released on 21 March 1977 in Australia on the Albert Productions label. A modified international edition was released on 25 July 1977 on Atlantic Records.

The 'Stans'
Helicopter Boy
External link Buttons are usually small and unimportant. But not always. Sometimes they are a portal to power, freedom, and destruction. Today we thread together tales of taking charge of the little things in life, of fortunes made and lost, and of the ease with which the world can end.
Noise Pollution vs Silence
Translation
Curious Sounds from the Solid Sound Festival

Birth date and place

External Link In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break.
External link Sometimes on the podcast, we like to talk about musicians and the music they make. Today we introduce you to Juana Molina. Last season we used some of her of music in the breaks for the Sperm show.

United States

Love

External link Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans .

Dorothy Walton Gatley

External link In this podcast, Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought and the voice in your head. How did it get there? And what's happening when people hear someone else's voice in their head?
Laughter
External link A study that finds a link between President Obama's election and the test scores of African Americans gets Jad and Robert thinking about an earlier study on a psychological effect called "stereotype threat."

Ann Arbor is located in southeast Michigan

External link Stories of love and loss in the name of science.
Wild Talk
The Trust Engineers

Ann Corio

External Link This Valentine's Day, a mysterious tap tap tapping leads us into a world of sex, death, and head-banging.
Falling
Look out...Martians!
Are You Sure?
Solid as a Rock
Unraveling Bolero
External link Eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die.

yes

External link Robert ambushes Jad with a question we've all been dying to ask him since he became a father. And we revisit some other ideas from our Morality show to think about a few really big modern-day problems .

Guitar

Mortality
Death Penalty and the Prison Economy

Kijevo, Belgrade

Mischel’s Marshmallows

Allari Priyudu is a 1993 Telugu film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film stars Rajasekhar, Ramya Krishna and Madhu Bala in lead roles. The film was premiered at the 1994 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section. The film was dubbed in to Tamil as Yaarukku Mappillai Yaaro. It was remade in Kannada as Chora Chittha Chora with V. Ravichandran, Namrata Shirodkar and Malavika. The film recorded as Super Hit at box office.

VIDEO: Radiolab Live Apocalyptical Sneak Peek
Debatable

Gold

External link In this short, a family dog disappears into the woods...and the mystery of what happened to him raises a big question about what it means to be wild. Compiled from the "The Furry Others" segment of the Radiolab episode "Who Are You?" .
Hard Knock Life
External link A showdown between a zookeeper and an orangutan named Fu Manchu raises a question: can an animal know what's in your head well enough to manipulate and deceive you?

University of California, Davis

The Rolling Stone Album Guide

External link Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, & even reveal secrets about us.

Roger Bondelli

External Link Three stories that give us a surprisingly intimate peek into the life, and death, of those who came before. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "An Ice-Cold Case" , "The Skull" , and "The Trouble with Everything" .
External link Winners, losers, underdogs -- what can games tell us about who we really are?

Ann Corio (November 29, 1909 – March 1, 1999) was a prominent American burlesque ecdysiast and actress. Ann Corio's original surname was Cicoria. She changed her name to Corio for stage purposes and because some family members did not approve of her profession.

External link Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?
External link Topics explored: function of hippocampus, developmental topographical disorientation, the pigeon G.I. Joe, how carrier pigeons navigate and a piece on Emilie Gossiaux and Alan Lundgard.
External Link In this episode, we look at the things we make—from spoons to microwaves to computers—as an extension of the same evolutionary processes that made us. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Dawn of Midi" , "Brown Box" , and "What Does Technology Want?" .

"Déjà Vu"

Brown Box
External link John and Zoltan are both blind, but they deal with the world in completely different ways -- one paints vivid pictures in his mind, while the other refuses to picture anything at all. In this short, they argue about the truth of a world they can't see.
Update: 23 Weeks 6 Days

Let There Be Rock

Neighbouring communes and villages

John Luther Adams

Fox 29 Now @ 9 (newscasts)

Martin Scorsese filmography

Laura Jackson

After Life
Quicksaaaand!
External link The desire to trace your way back to the very beginning, to understand everything -- whether it's the mysteries of love or the mechanics of the universe -- is deeply human. It might also be deeply flawed.
Terrorism and Fundamentalism

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

External link Mel Blanc was known as "the man of 1,000 voices," but the actual number may have been closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Barney Rubble -- all Mel. His characters made him one of the most beloved men in America. And in 1961, when a car crash left him in a coma, these characters may have saved him.

Fox

Emergence
Inner Voices
External link Story about giving one's crush a stack of Radiolab CDs.
Coming Soon: More Perfect
External link This week on the podcast, we continue our meditations on death . We'll throw a new one at you each day, all week long, culminating in a very special treat at the end of the week.
City X
≤ kg
External link In this new short, we explore luck and fate, both good and bad, with an author and a cartoon character. Compiled from the "Your Future in a Marshmallow" and "Singled Out" segments of the Radiolab episode "Fate and Fortune" .
External link Mother's day is nigh. Sort of. Anyway, without knowing it, you might have already given your mom a pretty lasting gift. But whether it helps or hurts her, or both, is still an open question. In this Radiolab short, Robert updates us on the science of fetal cells -- one of the first topics he covered as an NPR science correspondent.
External Link From a piece of the Wright brother's plane to a child’s sugar egg, today: Things! Important things, little things, personal things, things you can hold and things that can take hold of you. This hour, we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go.
External link In 1562, King Philip II needed a miracle. So he commissioned one from a highly skilled clockmaker. In this short, a king's deal with God leads to an intricate mechanical creation, and Jad heads to the Smithsonian to investigate.

Anna and the King

GNIS feature ID

External link Traces how the concepts of mind and self have been domain of philosophers, priests, and neurologists.

English

City downtown at sunset

Dawn of Midi
Shrink

Ann O'Delia Diss Debar (probably born Editha Salomen, c. 1849 – 1909 or later) was a late 19th and early 20th century medium and criminal. She was convicted of fraud several times in the US, and was tried for rape and fraud in London in 1901. She was described by Harry Houdini as "one of the most extraordinary fake mediums and mystery swindlers the world has ever known".

External Link In a recent breakthrough, researchers grew human embryos longer than ever before, witnessing a mysterious part of human development, and crashing into a decades-old ethical dilemma.
Networks & Neighborhoods
Wake Up and Dream
Donation and Mutation

La Cerollera (Spanish pronunciation: [la θeɾoˈʎeɾa]) or La Sorollera (Catalan pronunciation: [ɫə suɾuˈʎeɾə], locally: [la soɾoˈʎeɾa]) is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 122 inhabitants.

External link For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear -- it held a vise-grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about venturing into unknown lands. But these days, quicksand can't even scare an 8-year-old. In this short, we try to find out why.
External link In this short, costumed scientists create a carefully choreographed childhood for a flock of whooping cranes to save them from extinction. It's the ultimate feel-good story, but it also raises some troubling questions about what it takes to get a species back to being wild.
External Link Two stories about very different boundaries and how we patrol them. From policing the borders of 'real' hip hop to how the Founding Fathers started a fight about where local law ends and federal law begins that still reverberates today. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Sex, Ducks, and The Founding Feud" and "Straight Outta Chevy Chase" .

Leonora Carrington

Where Am I?

Laura Horos

External Link David Weinberg was stuck. Until he started recording every waking minute of his life.

Anna Notaras (Greek Ἄννα Νοταρᾶ; died 8 July 1507) was the daughter of Loukas Notaras, the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire.She left Constantinople prior to fall of Constantinople in 1453, settling in Rome and avoiding the massacre of her family. In Italy, with the fortune her father had wisely invested abroad, she became the center of the Byzantine expatriate community in Venice. She established, with two others (Nikolaos Vlastos and Zacharias Kalliergis), one of the first printing presses for Greek books in Venice (in 1499).In their correspondence with her, the council of Siena referred to her as widow of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI (1449—1453), but this was untrue. There is no mention of such a marriage in any other contemporary source, especially in the writings of George Sphrantzes, his chancellor.

Vera Ava

External link Near the end of the 19th century, a mysterious young woman with a beguiling smile turned up in Paris. She became a huge sensation. She also happened to be dead. You'd probably recognize her face yourself. You might have even touched it.

[www.bbvacontinental.pe]

Australia

Rodney Versus Death
External Link When shooting and killing an endangered species might be the best way to save it. This episode contains strong language.

South Head Lighthouse

External link How a tiny group of social engineers are making our online relationships kindler and gentler, whether we like it or not.

Alsace

Ypsilanti, Romulus , Detroit

Levi's Plaza

Contact
Wordless Music

Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Bringing Gamma Back
VIDEO: Radiolab Behind the Scenes
External link Radiolab throws a birthday party for Charles Darwin! Robert Krulwich invites three experts to toast the birthday boy.
Apocalyptical - Live from the Paramount in Seattle
Educating Esme

Kim Guadagno

Teen Diaries, Whose Line Is It Anyway and Rhythm N Blues

Editha Salomen (probable)

External link After hearing our show about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. What follows is what he found.
Strangers in the Mirror
External Link Real-life people try to pin down, and make peace with, mysterious figures that haunt them, prod them, and fade out of existence. Featured guests include Jeremy Grange, Elizabeth King, Tore Laerdal, Latif Nasser, Mary Roach, Carlene Stephens and Steve Volk. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "12: Proof" , "Death Mask" , "Wake Up and Dream" , and "A Clockwork Miracle" .

Ursinus College

Radiolab Presents: Ponzi Supernova
Inheritance

Lincoln Rock

Mayor

The Soul Patch
Nike: Not Just a Shoe Company
Fate and Fortune
Voices in Your Head
Radio Diaries

Lilibet Foster

External link Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close--the great artist known for his enormous paintings of ... that's right, faces.
External Link Madoff speaks. Investigating the world's largest con with the team behind @Audible_com's #PonziSupernova.
External link How stochasticity -- a wonderfully smarty-pants word for randomness -- drives our lives, and the patterns we see around us.
Love Supreme

Anna Christie

Darwinvaganza

Army Captain , secretary, rancher

External link Communicating across species -- from bringing pets to church, to a rescued whale that may have found a way to say thanks.
Memory 2

Lincoln Rock West

right

Go Down

Arms of Altorf

Allari Priyudu

metal skeletal tower

External link Jad plays one of his favorite pieces of all time, 'IF' by Sherre DeLys.
External link Alan Turing's mental leaps about machines and computers were some of the most innovative ideas of the 20th century. But the world wasn't kind to him. In this short, Robert wonders how Turing's personal life shaped his understanding of mechanical minds and human emotions.

Ann O'Delia Diss Debar

External link Roman Mars loves to spotlight the seams and joints that make up the world around us. He's the host of an irresistible podcast called 99% Invisible--a series of tiny radio stories that provoke enormous questions. Roman joins Jad and Robert to play a few favorites, and to chat about the hidden language of design that shapes our lives--from sound effects to stuff that’s more ... concrete.

Dog Eat Dog

Diagnosis
Food Therapy
Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States produced by WNYC. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, each hour-long show focuses on a topic of a scientific and philosophical nature, through stories, interviews, and thought experiments.The show's current format is oriented around a roughly biweekly podcast. For a few years, Radiolab featured a full-length, hour-long episode every six weeks (announced by the show's hosts as "Radiolab: The Podcast"), with two shorter pieces (known as "shorts") appearing in-between. Many of these shorter pieces would later be packaged into full-length episodes not released on the show's podcast feed, but available through Radiolab's website. In recent years, Radiolab has de-standardized its podcast format, with full-length episodes being compiled almost entirely from previously-released podcast shorts. The program airs in syndication to over 450 NPR affiliates around the country.Radiolab's first nine seasons (February 2005-April 2011) consisted of five episodes each. Subsequent seasons have contained between nine and ten episodes. Season 15 is currently airing.
Secrets of Success

Ann Moray (1909 – 1981) was a Welsh singer and novelist.While biographical information is difficult to find, according to liner notes on her recording, "The Love Songs of Robert Burns" (Spoken Arts #754), she studied music in Vienna. During World War II, she worked with the U.S. Army Chaplains, singing unaccompanied in battlefield hospitals, where the soldiers knew her as "Scottie".

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Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Leonora Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.

Singer-songwriter

Fox 29 (general)

External link Rome's Colosseum, frozen carcasses, wild jaguars, and a question: how do you build a better cage?
External Link How an outsider became the vanguard of a movement that made everything about debate debatable.
External link Kohn Ashmore’s voice is arresting. It stopped his friend Andy Mills in his tracks the first time they met. But in this short about the power of friendship and familiarity, Andy explains that Kohn’s voice isn't the most striking thing about him at all.

wooden tower

Aroma Wheel

Salle Des Departs
The Loudest Miniature Fuzz
Sperm Tales
Playing God
La Mancha Screwjob
Epic Battles
External Link On this episode of More Perfect, we'll talk about the figurative side door to the Supreme Court that has allowed individuals to influence policy for the many.

Christopher Taylor

Race Relations, The Power of Pop and the History of Rhythm n Blues
Inside "Ouch!"
Travelers Logs, Soundscapes and the History of Rhythm n Blues
Therapy/Therapeutic Resistance

Canadian Coast Guard

France

External link What do frozen horses and a scorching universe have in common? That's what we wanted to know.
External Link Stories of nature and nurture slamming into each other, & shaping our biological blueprints.
Music Lab

Jane Bannister

State

Adventures in the Other America
External link Producer Briana Breen and the podcast Love + Radio bring us a story about a very eventful year in the life of an accidental voyeur.

Jürgen Moltmann

NOAA

In the Running
Animal Minds

Side Two

Shots Fired: Part 2
In C

The Lincoln Rock Lighthouse was a lighthouse located on Lincoln Island, a small islet in Clarence Strait in southeastern Alaska, United States. It lay just off the west coast of Etolin Island, between it and Prince of Wales Island.

War
External link The incredible, little-known story of the Nazi prisoners of war kept on American soil during World War II.
Blood Buddies
Remembering Oliver Sacks

Madeleine Peyroux in 2005

Swami Viva Ananda

BBVA Continental

External link We explore some of the outer edges of the power of music by gathering up a band of biblical horn-blowers, paying a midnight visit to a corner of Mississippi where the devil is rumored to grant wishes, and by helping an angsty 18th century composer push some classical musicians to their physical and psychological limits. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Stayin' Alive" , "The Walls of Jericho" , "Speedy Beet" , and "Crossroads" .
Migrants and Wanderers
External link The inhumanly fast world of high-speed trading, an excruciatingly slow experiment, and a physicist plays Zeus.
KILL 'EM ALL
External Link Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops.
Dead Reckoning
External link Lies, liars, and lie catchers. This hour of Radiolab asks if it's possible for anyone to lead a life without deception.
Memory and Forgetting

Ed Elbert

The Fix

Ann Corio in YANK magazine, 1943

Lilibet Foster is an American director, producer and writer. Her non-fiction films have won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award and been Nominated for Best Film of the Year by the International Documentary Association.

Revolt
Strip Club USA

green

External Link We wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape.
Atonement, Quilting and Knitting and the History of Rhythm 'n Blues

Alaska

External link Jad talks about the band Stars of the Lid.

Fl W 6s.

External link Robert Epstein talks about how he, without realizing it for two months, had an e-mail conversation with a bot calling itself "Svetlana". Sherry Turkle tells the story of Joseph Weizenbaum's program ELIZA and Brian Christian talks about the Loebner Prize, the Turing test, and Rollo Carpenter's Cleverbot. Also: Furby, Martine Rothblatt, David Hanson and Bina48.
David and the Wire
In Silence

Janis Lyn Joplin (/ˈdʒɒplɪn/; January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American rock singer and songwriter. She was one of the biggest female rock stars of her era. After releasing three albums, she died of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27. A fourth album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, a little more than three months after her death. It reached number one on the charts.In 1967, Joplin rose to fame during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin went into the Billboard Top 100, including a cover of the song "Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number 1 in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "Piece of My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down on Me", "Ball 'n' Chain", and "Summertime"; and her original song "Mercedes Benz", her final recording. Joplin, highly respected for her charismatic performing ability, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Audiences and critics alike referred to her stage presence as "electric". Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 15.5 million albums sold in the USA.

Gérard Adolph
Jaegerhoff

La Cerollera/La Sorollera

"Love", was promoted throughout Europe as Inna's second singleafter her previously released single called "Hot".

Blason ville fr Altorf .svg

George F. Marion

Nazi Summer Camp
Wild Things
External Link What does conservation really means in the 21st century? Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "For the Birds" and "The Rhino Hunter" .
Scenes from a Transplant

Joplin in 1969

Artec 3D

Weights and Measures
Who Am I?

Two grandsons

Hello: The Broadcast
External link Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family.
Chris And Lisa

Ramya Krishna

Sperm
Morality

present

Emericko Weisz

A portrait of Ann O'Delia Diss Debar

Lose Lose
Space
Cities
External link This fall, we're hitting the road with our brand-new live show. We're stopping in 20 cities across the US , and we have some exciting news about the special musical guests who are joining us for the tour.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

K-poparazzi
Veteran's Day Special
External link Robert and Malcolm Gladwell duke it out over questions of luck, talent, passion, and success.
External Link A new discovery: prodding the brain with light, a group of scientists were able to turn back on a part of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
External link It’s Robert’s birthday! So today we celebrate with some classic Krulwich radio and a backwards peek into the spirit and sensibility that, in many ways, drives our show.
Games
Killer Empathy
External link Explores the line between music and language, turning to physics and biochemistry to ask how sound becomes emotion.

Lincoln Rock Light

External link The modern search for the Fountain of Youth, and personal stories of witnessing death.
The Obama Effect, Perhaps.

Anna Christie is a 1923 silent era drama motion picture based on the 1921 play by Eugene O'Neill (first film version), starring Blanche Sweet and William Russell.Directed by John Griffith Wray and produced by Thomas H. Ince for First National Pictures, the screenplay was adapted by Bradley King from the Eugene O'Neill play of the same title. Thomas H. Ince Inc. paid a then-astronomical $35,000 for the screen rights to the play.The sole remaining print was discovered in Europe in the 1970s.
Silent with English intertitles

Cosmic Habituation
External link This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece from across the pond--a piece about soccer they fell in love with when they heard it at the Third Coast festival in Chicago.

United States Coast Guard

Author, activist, producer

Grace Kaye Janssen

The Universe
External link A look at four unconventional ways to stay alive.
External link Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective. Today on Radiolab, a puzzle. Jad’s brother-in-law wrote a book called 'In The Dust of This Planet'.
External link The connection between the human body and brain and what happens when it breaks.

Editha Salomen

External link A rare and haunting disorder called Capgras turns loved ones into imposters--and reveals that recognizing people, even the people we know the best, is more about how they make us feel than what we see in front of our eyes.
External link From the silent words of a child forming her first thought, to the inner heckler that taunts you when the pressure's on, a look at how the voices in our heads shape us—for better and for worse. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Voices in Your Head" , "The Obama Effect, Perhaps." , "What's Up, Doc?" , and "A 4-Track Mind" .

adelante.

Gravitational Anarchy
Shots Fired: Part 1

Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire, England, UK

Altorf

*St. Louis Cardinals
*Doosan Bears
*Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Eduardo Torres-Llosa Villacorta,

Ann O'Delia Salomon

Athens, Georgia, U.S.

hexagonal frustum tower with balcony and lantern

Kelvin Jiménez

Augustín de Vetancurt

Fox 29 Now @ 9

External link The basal ganglia is a core part of the brain, deep inside your skull, that helps control movement. Unless something upsets the chain of command. In this short, Jad and Robert meet a young researcher who was studying what happens when the basal ganglia gets short-circuited in mice...until one fateful day, when things got really, really weird.

j/jimenke01

External link A plum-sized lump of metal takes us from the French Revolution to an underground bunker in Maryland as we try to weigh the way we weigh the world around us.

Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam (Arabic: كتائب روح الله عيسى بن مريم‎‎; lit. The Brigade of the Spirit of God Jesus Son of Mary) is a militia composed of Iraqi Christians trained and supplied by an Iraqi Shi'ite militia as a subgroup in the fight against ISIL.

Limits

Molsheim

External link Today, a lady with a bird in her backyard upends our whole sense of what we may have to give up to keep a wild creature wild.

solo_singer

Madhu Bala

The Wright Brothers
One Vote
External link In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie.

Kelvin-Jimenez

What's so Funny?

concrete tower

Seneca, Nebraska
Playing God: The Broadcast
Numbers
The Girl Who Doesn't Exist
External link In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
External Link This episode we swivel our attention back to you, our listeners, reconnect with some old friends to see how they are doing, and thank everyone for what they've shared with us.

Country

Death Mask

Samuel Democritus Druyan Sagan

The Bus Stop

Love .ogg

External Link On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse.
External link There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his music from ever feeling familiar, to keep pushing his listeners to a kind of psychological limit.

Kimberly Ann McFadden

Alex Fort Brescia,

Guts
External link The philosophy or morality from a neuroscience perspective.
Sleep

Game show franchise

External link An interview about ants with entomologist E. O. Wilson.
Jurisdiction
External link If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?
External link In the wake of public tragedy there is a space between the official narrative and the stories of the people who experienced it. Today, we crawl inside that space and question the role of journalists in helping us move on from a traumatic event. NPR's East Africa correspondent Gregory Warner takes us back to the 2013 terrorist attacks on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Warner reported on the attack as it happened, listening to eyewitness accounts, sorting out the facts, establishing the truth. But he's been wrestling with it ever since as his friends and neighbors try not only to put their lives back together, but also try to piece together what really happened that day.
External Link We join Ben Montgomery, a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, as he looks at every person killed or injured by Florida police over six years.

Artec 3D is a developer and manufacturer of 3D scanning hardware and software. The company is a Russian owned international group, headquartered in Luxembourg, with subsidiaries in the United States of America (Palo Alto) and Russia (Moscow). Artec 3D's products and services are used in various industries, including engineering, healthcare, media and design, entertainment, education, fashion and historic preservation.

I Hart K-Pop
Outside Westgate

Harry Bannister 1 child

External link Richard Holmes went to Cambridge University intending to study the lives of poets. Until a dueling mathematician, and a dinner conversation composed entirely of gestures, changed his mind.
I Don't Have To Answer That

Anna and the King is a 1999 biographical drama film loosely based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam (and its 1946 film adaptation), which give a fictionalised account of the diaries of Anna Leonowens. The story concerns Anna, an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the late 19th century, who becomes the teacher of King Mongkut's many children and wives.The film was directed by Andy Tennant and stars Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat.

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Political Thicket
The Universe Knows My Name

Imperial

Our Podcast comes in all shapes and sizes

Kijevo

Radiolab Presents: Invisibilia
The World in Sound
External link In this short, Jad puts on his music hat and shares his love of Dawn of Midi, a band that he recently started using on the show.
A 4-Track Mind
Deception
External link In this podcast, a story about obsession, creativity, and a strange symmetry between a biologist and a composer that revolves around one famously repetitive piece of music.
External link Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure. In this short, Diane tells us how her disability gave rise to an extraordinary ability.
External link Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe.
External Link At Radiolab, we’re obsessed with music. In this episode, we embrace that obsession for its own sake. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Juana Molina" , "John Luther Adams" , and "Unraveling Bolero" .
War of the Worlds
External link For most of human history, flight was an impossible dream. In this short, the dizzying rise and fall of a pilot whose aeronautic feats changed aviation forever and turned chancy stunts into acrobatic mastery.
Trenches
The Cold War
After Birth
Why does the Arab world hate us?
External link We tackle a question we thought was a no-brainer: why do we blink?
List of Radiolab episodes
Food for Thought

Ann C Noble

Aluminium–lithium alloys (Al-Li) are a series of alloys of aluminium and lithium, often also including copper and zirconium. Since lithium is the least dense elemental metal, these alloys are significantly less dense than aluminium. Commercial Al–Li alloys contain up to 2.45% by weight of lithium.

External link For meditation number fifteen we have a reading from David Eagleman's book Sum. It's a vision of the after life that's both playful and... horrifying. Sum is read by actor Jeffrey Tambor.

A2 , A2 , Tree Town, The People's Republic of Ann Arbor

Juicervose
Zoos

American University

External link Lulu Miller talks to a nursing home in Düsseldorf, Germany that came up with a novel approach to caring for Alzheimer's and Dementia patients.

Ann C. Noble

Fetal Consequences
External link You order some stuff on the Internet and it shows up three hours later. How could all the things that need to happen to make that happen happen so fast?
Darkode
External link Highlights from a live Radiolab performance about hearts, driving forces, and the people we love - including a final conversation with Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Words
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - Object Anyway
External link As a follow-up to our story Los Frikis, we're bringing you a translated version of Radio Ambulante's story on the same subject.
External link We continue our meditations on death with a reading from poet and writer, Mark Doty. This is an excerpt from Doty's 1996 memoir Heaven's Coast.
This is Your Brain On Love
External link It might seem hyperbole to claim, as many Wagnerites do, that The Ring Cycle is 'The Greatest Work of Art Ever.' But it's permeated our culture from Star Wars to Bugs Bunny to J.R.R. Tolkien. On this Radiolab/WNYC Special, we explore the impact and influence of Wagner's Ring Cycle on the Metropolitan Opera's 2004 Presentation.
Radiolab Video: Symmetry
External link Explores the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and the human brains as models for leaderless systems.
Raising Crane
External Link In this episode, conception takes on a new form—it’s the sperm and the egg, plus two wombs, four countries, and money. Lots of money.
Slow
In the Dust of this Planet
Buttons Not Buttons
External link We all laugh. This hour of Radiolab asks why.

Town

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee.ogg

Bridges
External link Turning ideas into radio is one of the most exciting, frustrating, rewarding, and insanely fun things there is. Which got us thinking--why not ask you to join in on the fun? So we teamed up with Indaba for our first-ever remix competition. And now we get to play the winners.

Captain Arthur J. M. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. He is first introduced in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles and appears as a character in eight other Poirot novels and plays, in addition to being the narrator of several others.

External link In this short, the tale of an arms race involving trillions of sea creatures--and why their struggle is vital to our survival.
Famous Tumors

Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.

Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks

Editha Lola Montez

Bible Salesmen, Snake Handlers and Deadly Decisions

Location of Lark Harbour in Newfoundland

External link This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is a legal battle that has entangled a biological father, a heart-broken couple, and the tragic history of Native American children taken from their families.
An Unusual Look at the Middle East

Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.

Actress

The Turing Problem
Galapagos
An Hour With George Avakian

KVHP

Things
Pre-Disaster, the Aftermath and Spiritual Fallout
External link Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how could you make another one?
External link Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question: why do we sleep?
From Tree to Shining Tree
Rwanda Maps

Ann Arbor

External link We plunge into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, and upend some myths about falling cats.

Grace

The Living Room
Patient Zero
The Perfect Picture
External Link When Dr. Sacks announced a few months ago that he had terminal cancer and wouldn't do any more interviews, we asked him if he'd talk with us one last time. This is that conversation. Compiled from the Radiolab short "Radiolab Live: Tell-Tale Hearts featuring Oliver Sacks" .
Dogs Gone Wild

Anna Notaras

Kozmic Blues Band

External link What if the moon were just a jump away? In this short, a beautiful answer to that question from Italo Calvino, read live by Liev Schreiber.

Original 1923 theatrical poster

External link From boom bap to EDM, we look at the line between hip-hop and not, and meet a defender of the genre that makes you question... who's in and who's out.
External link Music duo Buke and Gase talk to Jad about coaxing delightfully twangy sounds from their homemade instruments.
Word Musicians

Àldorf

"Hot"

MLB

Desperately Seeking Symmetry
Sex, Ducks, and The Founding Feud
External link A story about a boy, a mom, and a homemade helicopter--and how radio can move you to feel a little bit different about the world.
External link Jad--a brand new father--wonders what's going on inside the head of his baby Amil. Is it just chaos? Or is there something more, some understanding from the very beginning?
External Link There’s a black hole in the middle of the history of life: how did we go from tiny bags of chemicals to the vast menagerie of creatures we see around us?
External link A mysterious case of the topsy turvies and a return to the question of what felines feel when they fall.
Blood
In Defense of Darwin?

Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell. An adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same name by Margaret Landon, it was based on the fictionalized diaries of Anna Leonowens, an Anglo-Indian woman who claimed to be British and became governess in the Royal Court of Siam (now modern Thailand) during the 1860s. Darryl F.

External Link In part 2 of Shots Fired, Jad and Robert talk to Ben Montgomery about how communication breakdowns too often lead to violence.

February 2012

cylindrical tower with light

Official Russian version website

External link In this short, Jad presents the electrifying sounds of three mind-bending musical acts: Brooklyn duo Buke & Gass, drummer Glenn Kotche of Wilco, and the one-and-only Reggie Watts. Their performances were recorded live at our Curious Sounds concert earlier this month in NYC.

Mayors from 1815 to 1942

What Does Technology Want?
Mutant Rights
For the Love of Numbers
External Link Being the first at something means taking on a big hunk of risk and pushing yourself to dangerous limits. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Loop the Loop" and "On the Edge" .

Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

lighthouse

April 2014

Roton, Ultra Records, Vale Music, 3 Beat Records, Spinnin' Records, Do It Yoursef

External link Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying, explanation.

bottom

The Cathedral

Bad Boy Boogie

white tower, red lantern

External link From the archives: a visit with Oliver Sacks and the elements he's known and loved. Compiled from the "The Wonder of Youth" segment of Radolab episode "Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters" .
External link While working on The Bad Show, producer Pat Walters ran across some recordings that spooked him--partly because they seemed like they had to be a big joke ... and partly because, at the same time, they sounded so deadly serious. In this short, Jad & Robert try to decide how to feel.
Radiolab Remixed

Ann Druyan (/ˈdri.æn/ DREE-an; born June 13, 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American writer and Peabody Award-winning producer specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.

Whole Lotta Rosie

square pyramidal tower

Religion in America

Anna Goodman Hertzberg (January 24, 1864 – May 29, 1937) was an American clubwoman who served as the co-founder of an all-women's chamber music society, the first women's music association in Texas.

The Buried Bodies Case
What's Left When You're Right?

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Memories

K. Raghavendra Rao

External Link In this episode, we try to make contact with some of the strangest strangers on our little planet: animals. Compiled from the Radiolab short "Wild Talk" and the Radiolab episode "Hello" .
Smile My Ass
External Link Stories about Christopher Daniel Gay, Isaac Newton's explaining why the moon does not fall down, how the Voyager probe is about to leave the solar system and about Joe Engressia Jr. and phone phreaking.
Bonus Video: Words
Needlework
The Times They Are a-Changin'

Play & Win Studios

Undercover in Zimbabwe
External link This hour of Radiolab centers around a chilling question: how well can you ever really know the people around you? Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "After Birth" , "Do I Know You?" , "Fu Manchu" , and "14: The Four Groans" .

Justice Wilson

The Ring and I

Aluminium-lithium alloy

Hello

LED lamp

External link Robert Krulwich's commencement speech at Caltech.
Parabolas

Inna singles

Radiolab Presents: The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
External link Robert talks with Brian Greene about what's beyond the horizon of our universe.
Update: CRISPR
External link Words have the power to shape the way we think and feel. In this stunning video , filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante bandy visual wordplay into a moving exploration of the power of language.
The Fact of the Matter
Argentine Invasion

Michael Guadagno

Beyond Time

External Link Cataclysmic destruction. Surprising survival. In this new live stage performance, Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonizingly slow.

This hour we celebrate the one thing that all things do: end. From the stage in Seattle, with an all-star cast of comedians and musical guests, we bring you stories that end with a bang, with a whimper, and with astonishing bravery and resilience in the face of one's own demise.

External Link Addiction … and the pills that just might set free those who suffer from it.
External link We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads, and try to get to the bottom of what really steers our decisions.

KVHP, channel 29 (PSIP), is a Fox-affiliated television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 30 (virtual channel 29.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in rural northwestern Calcasieu Parish 5 miles northwest of Edgerly (located halfway between Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, allowing the station's signal to reach both markets), while the station maintain studios on Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles. Syndicated programs seen on this station include Two and a Half Men, The Dr. Oz Show, Jeopardy!, How I Met Your Mother, Rachael Ray,Modern Family, The Queen Latifah Show, and Steve Harvey.KVHP also operates as an affiliate of The CW on its HD2 subchannel.

A Flock of Two
External link They Might Be Giants celebrate at our season launch party with a live concert, and a conversation about the tricky business of combining science and entertainment.
The Shy Baboon

Ann Druyan (/ˈdri.æn/ DREE-an; born June 13, 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American writer and Peabody Award-winning producer specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.She was the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.

NY Screamers, Turkish Youth and Improv Comedians

Platinum

The Good Show
Do I Know You?

Germany

Ally's Choice
Birthstory
External Link From awkward moments to practical jokes to serious attempts at battling crime, we ask whether being watched is a good or bad thing. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Smile My Ass" and "Eye in the Sky" .

Madeleine Peyroux

External link Special bonus of the week! A video inspired by the mathematician, Steve Strogatz. At the age of thirteen, Steve was astonished to find that pendulums and water fountains had a strange relationship that had previously been completely hidden from him.

Ann Druyan

Fox 29

Della Ann O'Sullivan

Crossroads
External link This week, a look at the different ways that people connect to each other, and how they act once they’re together. NOTE: This episode contains EXPLICIT language about sex.
An Ice-Cold Case
Haunted

Eugene O'Neill

External link Stories of unintended consequences—from a psychologist who may have helped create a terrorist, to a toxic lake that spawned new life.
Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Ann Harding, 1930

Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.

Right

Selling
From the Archives: Oliver Sacks' Table of Elements
Loops
External link Stories of unlikely answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "A Flock of Two" , "Strangers in the Mirror" , and "The Bus Stop" .
When Brains Attack!
Family Feuds Over the Lord

CCG 192

External link We open up an age old can of worms at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space: which medium is superior -- television or radio? Jad and Robert face off, with This American Life's Ira Glass as referee.

"Love"

External Link In today’s episode, we meet a young woman from Texas, born and raised, who can’t prove that she exists.
External link Robert challenges Richard Dawkins on a number of sticky spots on the subject of biological evolution.

Madame Messant (or McGonn)

Alpha Gal
External Link Stories of striving, grasping, tripping, and falling for happiness, perfection, and Bliss.
External Link Catching up on what's been happening in the world of CRISPR, almost two years later.
DIY
A War We Need
For the Birds
Bliss

British

External Link Today's story is a mystery, shockingly hot, and vanishingly tiny.

none

Of Men and Myths
External Link Today we discover the rules of war, negotiation, and conflict resolution in a most unlikely place - deep in the heart and soul of that tasty frozen treat we all scream for.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
It Might Be Science
External link Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.
Stress
One Vote: The Broadcast
n/a

album

Lost at Sea

Justice Williams

Making Radiolab

Anna Christie (1923 film)

External Link The surprising ways that loops steer…and sometimes derail…our lives.

white tower with two red narrow horizontal band

External link A journey to the edge of human limits -- from a bike race that makes the Tour de France look like child’s play, to a mind-stretching memory competition.

fiberglass tower

University of Massachusetts

ZIP codes

External link In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick.
External link Temporal stories not covered in the previous episode.
External link Today, the story of one little thing that has radically changed what we know about humanity’s humble beginnings and the kinds of creatures that were out to get us way back when.
External Link This week, we lace up our skates and tell a story about loving a sport that doesn’t love you back, and being judged in front of the world according to rules you don’t understand.
Nukes
Vanishing Words

soundtrack

External Link From a duel with the world's deadliest disease to a surprising peek into the way doctors think about death, in this hour Radiolab tries to reckon with the grim reaper. And, in the end, we confront the question at the heart of it all — when the time comes to finally leave, how do we want to go? Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Rodney Versus Death" , "Stayin' Alive" , and "The Bitter End" .

"Me and Bobby McGee"

Watching You, Watching Me
External link An unlikely escape story begins in a supermarket, and ends in a boat off the coast of Maine.
Native vs. Tourist
External link Jad's audio portrait of producer Ben Rubin on the trading floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
External link One of our favorite human beings turns 80 this week. To celebrate, Robert asks Oliver Sacks to look back on his career, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career.
Earworms
Loop the Loop
Damn It, Basal Ganglia
External link We have a special bonus this week to accompany our Stochasticity episode. We asked our friends, Higher Mammals to produce a song and video for our Stochasticity show. We hope you find it completely Random!
Update: Eye In the Sky
External Link When should we consider someone a threat? Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Outside Westgate" and "Grumpy Old Terrorists" .
The Listening Room

Fl W 4s.

External link You may not give a second thought to what the toilet whisks away after you do your business. But we got wondering -- where would we wind up if we thought of flushing as the start, and not the end, of a journey? In this short, we head out to trace the trail of sludge...from Manhattan, to wherever poop leads us.

solar power

A sister

South Head

It's Not Us, It's You
External link Jad and cellist Zoe Keating discuss the physics of looping sound and how to use a 17th-century instrument to make avant-garde electronic music.
External Link From the producers of Radiolab, More Perfect dives into the rarefied world of the Supreme Court.
External Link We shine a light into the dark corners of the internet to see the world from the perspective of both cyber crime victims and perpetrators.
To See Or Not To See
External link In this short, Jonathan Schooler tells us about a discovery that launched his career and led to a puzzle that has haunted him ever since.

KVHP License Subsidiary, LLC

Who Are You?
External link Strangers exchange phone numbers at a singles night and get some advice from a experts on the chemistry of love.
Fu-Go
Staph Retreat
Worth
Eye in the Sky
External link The story of how Jad and Robert met, told onstage at their alma mater, Oberlin College.

CAN-751

Remember
Colors
Help!
External link What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you?
Talking to Machines
External link Humans love to solve problems. This hour, Diagnosis -- our attempt to find out what's wrong, and give it a label.

Janis Lyn Joplin (/ˈdʒɒplɪn/; January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American rock singer and songwriter. She was one of the biggest female rock stars of her era. After releasing three albums, she died of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27. A fourth album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, a little more than three months after her death.

Graduation and Memorial Day

KVHP, channel 29 (PSIP), is a Fox-affiliated television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 30 (virtual channel 29.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in rural northwestern Calcasieu Parish 5 miles northwest of Edgerly (located halfway between Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, allowing the station's signal to reach both markets), while the station maintain studios on Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles.

Super Cool
External link What do you do in the face of a monstrous disease with a 100% fatality rate? In this short, a Milwaukee doctor tries to knock death incarnate off its throne.
Man vs Machine
How much do most of us really know about Africa?
Radiolab Presents: On the Media: Busted, America's Poverty Myths
External link In this podcast, Jad and Robert throw some physics at a bible story. We find out just how many trumpeters you'd actually need to blow down the walls of Jericho.
External link Two short pieces on sperm that didn't make it into the full-length show.
Quantum Cello
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Imperfect Plaintiffs
External Link Stories from and about the highest court in the land. Compiled from the Radiolab short "Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl" and the More Perfect episode "Cruel and Unusual" .
External Link On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone tells Jad and Robert about a project they launched to look at the tales we tell when we talk about poverty.
External link Producer Lu Olkowski brings us the story of a tight-knit family caught on opposite sides of a very big divide. If you ask Ally Manning's mom and sister, they'll tell you there's no question: they're black. But as a teenager, Ally decided that what was true for them didn't make sense for her.
External link A preview of Radiolab's live show Apocalyptical: dinosaurs, death, destruction... plus cinematic live scoring and comedic mayhem from Reggie Watts and Kurt Braunohler.
External link We follow up on our Stochasticity show with an exploration of whether the little choices we make every day are predictable or not.
On the Edge
External link In this new short, a tree full of blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection.
Placebo

BBVA Continental (formerly BBVA Banco Continental) is a Peruvian bank and subsidiary of Holding Continental (an affiliate of BBVA) which holds 92.08% of its equity.The bank was established in 1951 and its operations are authorized by the Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS). Its principal offices are located in Av. República de Panamá No. 3055, San Isidro District, Peru.The bank conducts its business through 311 branches located in different regions of Peru. As of February 2014, it had 5,429 employees.In 2014, Global Finance ranked BBVA Continental the "Best Bank in Peru."

Telugu

Stayin' Alive

Wine chemistry

La Cerollera

The Luckiest Lobster
Blink

Love (Inna song)

External link A search of order and balance in the world, asking how symmetry shapes everything from the origins of the universe, to what one sees in the mirror.
The Man Behind the Maneuver

Position established

Radiolab Live: Tell-Tale Hearts featuring Oliver Sacks
The Rhino Hunter

Sheriff of Monmouth County

Fu Manchu
Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom

USSR

Side One

External link Zoo director David Hancocks talks about the paradoxes he encounters in the zoo world and his dream for a future zoo.
The Many Faces of Glenn Gould
External Link It's hard to start a conversation with a stranger—especially when that stranger is, well, different. He doesn't share your customs, celebrate your holidays, watch your TV shows, or even speak your language. Plus he has a blowhole. In this episode, we try to make contact with some of the strangest strangers on our little planet: dolphins. Producer Lynn Levy eavesdrops on some human-dolphin conversations, from a studio apartment in the Virgin Islands to a research vessel in the Bermuda Triangle.
External link The story of how punk rock’s arrival in Cuba allowed a small band of outsiders to sentence themselves to death and set themselves free.
Stranger in Paradise
External link Is the world full of deep symmetries and ordered pairs? Or do we live in a lopsided universe? This striking video by Everynone plays with our yearning for balance, and reveals how beautiful imperfect matches can be. The video was inspired by our episode Desperately Seeking Symmetry.
Therapy, Martian Invasion and More Rhythm n Blues
External link Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? In this short, Jad and Robert talk to an entomologist about the risks, and the rewards, of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes.
Chasing Bugs
Cellmates

Ann Moray (1909 – 1981) was a Welsh singer and novelist.While biographical information is difficult to find, according to liner notes on her recording, "The Love Songs of Robert Burns" (Spoken Arts #754), she studied music in Vienna. During World War II, she worked with the U.S. Army Chaplains, singing unaccompanied in battlefield hospitals, where the soldiers knew her as "Scottie". Maxine Andrews told a story about a soldier who was afraid he was near death, who asked Moray to sing "Abide With Me" at his funeral. Moray assured him that he was not going to die anytime soon, but promised to sing. That night the soldier did die, and "two days later, Ann Moray stood in the rain next to his freshly dug grave on the beachhead at Anzio and sang." Moray recounted when a field hospital physician had cautioned her against informing a soldier that he had been blinded. This soldier asked her to sing "Smilin' Through" from a 1941 motion picture. The song contains repeated references to "eyes of blue," and the soldier asked her if his eyes "are blue" or "were blue." Moray answered, "were".After World War II, she continued to study music, and in 1952 gave her first recital at the Town Hall in New York. She developed a serious interest in the folklore of her homeland, and at a town hall recital in 1954, devoted the second half of the program to songs and legends of Ireland and the Western Isles. Later in life Ann Moray turned to writing, and is the author of three published novels and a book of short stories. Moray’s papers are in the Howard Gotleib Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Sergey Muratov, Albert Axelrod, Mikhail Yakovlev

External link In early August of 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi had a run of the worst luck imaginable. A double blast of radiation left his future, and the future of his descendants, in doubt. In this short: an utterly amazing survival story that spans ... well, 4 billion years when you get down to it.
External link Another meditation on what happens after the moment of death, this time as Shakespeare envisions it.
External Link A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, there’s a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour.

KVN (Russian: КВН, an abbreviation of Клуб весёлых и находчивых, Klub vesyólykh i nakhódchivykh or Ka-Ve-En, "Club of the Funny and Inventive People") is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams (usually college students) compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches, that originated in the Soviet Union. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961.

Parasites

KVN (Russian: КВН, an abbreviation of Клуб весёлых и находчивых, Klub vesyólykh i nakhódchivykh or Ka-Ve-En, "Club of the Funny and Inventive People") is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams (usually college students) compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches, that originated in the Soviet Union. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.During the Perestroika era, KVN spread to Russian expatriate communities around the world. In 1992 the Israel team tested the waters playing against the CIS team. The game was an unquestionable success and more international games on a highest level followed: the CIS team visited Israel, Germany and USA. The culmination was in 1994 with the First KVN World Festival in Israel with 4 teams (USA, Israel, CIS and Germany).

External link Jad talks to musicians Michael Lowenstern and Zoe Keating about their remixes of Terry Riley's In C.
External link Scientists' obsession with one particular man - and with the tiny scraps of evidence left in the wake of his death - gives us a surprisingly intimate peek into the life of someone who should've been lost to the ages.
Open Outcry

Ann Moray

Robert Krulwich joins Jad Abumrad for stories about humans taking inspiration from birds: A look back at the Wright brothers, a study of a crow who makes and uses tools, and an ornithological obsession about a rare New Zealand bird.
Happy Birthday Bobby K

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Choice
External Link How close can words get you to the truth and feel and force of life? That's the question poking at our ribs this hour, as we wonder how it is that the right words can have the wrong meanings, and why sometimes the best translations lead us to an understanding that's way deeper than language. This episode, 8 stories that play out in the middle space between one reality and another — where poetry, insult comedy, 911 calls, and even our own bodies work to close the gap.
Known Unknowns
External link The healing powers of belief, from the symbolic power of the doctor's lab coat, to the very real stash of opium in the brain.
External link Improv comedy puts uncertainty on center stage -- performers usually start by asking the audience for a prompt, then they make up the details as they go. But two actors in Chicago are taking this idea to its absolute limit, and finding ways to navigate the unknown.

Judith

Zoo Keeper's Dilemma

Azure, a meat-hook of Or hooked to an annulet the same.

Dulcie Duveen

Detective Stories
Life

Overdose

External link This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.
External Link On this podcast, we present a story from an amazing, staff favorite podcast, Reply All.
External Link Should the last moments of life be captured, seen, and shared? This hour asks that question from three very different perspectives: through a window and across a street; face to face in a hospital room; and in the green glow of a night-vision-goggled camera lens half a world away. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "The Living Room" , "Sight Unseen" , and "13: Gone" .
External link We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what doctors want done for themselves.

Strikeouts

Fourth-order Fresnel lens

What a Slinky Knows
DIY Universe
External link How a donation leads Sarah and Ross Gray to places we rarely get a chance to see.
Time
External link Imagine that you're a composer. Imagine getting the commission to write a song that will allow family members to face the death of a loved one.
Mau Mau

Banzai charge

abt. 1886

Queens, New York, U.S.

The Bad Show

Newfoundland

burlesque ecdysiast and actress

Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
American Football
Released on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, "Trenches" compiled three archival stories about Americans at war: The first takes a listen to tape recordings from 1966 made by an American soldier who was killed in action in Vietnam; The second excerpts 1989 interviews with African American soldiers who dealt with racism, both in Vietnam and at home in the United States; The third story strings together audio clips from the Pacific Northwest in 1991 during first U.S. Gulf War with Iraq.
External link A short piece about songs that get stuck in people's heads and how they get them out.

BBVA Continental (formerly BBVA Banco Continental) is a Peruvian bank and subsidiary of Holding Continental (an affiliate of BBVA) which holds 92.08% of its equity.The bank was established in 1951 and its operations are authorized by the Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS). Its principal offices are located in Av. República de Panamá No. 3055, San Isidro District, Peru.The bank conducts its business through 311 branches located in different regions of Peru.

External Link Football is the most popular sport in the US. At the end of the 19th century, football was a nascent and nasty sport. The sons of the most powerful men in the country are literally knocking themselves out to win these gladiatorial battles. But then the Carlisle Indian School, formed in 1879 to assimilate the children and grandchildren of the Native American men who fought the final Plains Wars, fields the most American team of all. The kids at Carlisle took the field to face off against a new world that was destroying theirs, and along the way, they changed the fundamentals of football forever.
The Trouble with Everything

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External Link From medicine to the movies, the horrifying to the holy, and history to the present day -- we're kinda obsessed with blood. This hour, we consider the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins.

Problem Child

Ann C. Noble is a sensory chemist and retired professor from the University of California, Davis. During her time at the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, Noble invented the "Aroma Wheel" which is credited with enhancing the public understanding of wine tasting and terminology. At the time of her hiring at UC Davis in 1974, Noble was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the Viticulture department.

External Link Today we travel from the storage rooms of the Smithsonian to the sandy beaches of Guadeloupe, chasing the tale of one trash can tipping raccoon.

Powerage

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External link Stories about walking the tightrope between doubt and certainty.

January–February 1977, Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia

The Primitive Streak
The Bitter End

United Kingdom

External link Just before the curtain went up on our live show in Los Angeles, Jad and Robert carved out a little stage time for a sneak peek at next week's Colors episode.
Oops

Crabsody in Blue

Flight

Artec 3D is a developer and manufacturer of 3D scanning hardware and software. The company is a Russian owned international group, headquartered in Luxembourg, with subsidiaries in the United States of America (Palo Alto) and Russia (Moscow). Artec 3D's products and services are used in various industries, including engineering, healthcare, media and design, entertainment, education, fashion and historic preservation. In 2013, Artec 3D launched an automated full-body 3D scanning system, Shapify.me, that creates 3D portraits called “Shapies.”

Radiolab Presents: 99% Invisible

Gabriel and Pablo Weisz

External link Biopsychologist Barbara Smuts takes us to a remote area of Kenya, where she tried to gain the trust of a troop of baboons in the 1970s.
A Clockwork Miracle
Elements

Anna Goodman Hertzberg

Pop Songs, Strip Clubs, and Commercials
Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR
External Link 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.
External Link More often than not, a fight is just a fight... Someone wins, someone loses. But this hour, we have a series of face-offs that shine a light on the human condition, the benefit of coming at something from a different side, and the price of being right.
External link In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years.
External link A hat that goes viral, an idea that gives birth to computer science, and a life-saving maneuver. In this episode of Radiolab, we look at the men behind some of the most famous inventions of our time and wonder what they really created, and what legacy they will leave behind them. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "The Turing Problem" and "The Man Behind the Maneuver" and the "Contagious Ideas" segment of the Radiolab episode "Patient Zero" .

Anna and the King is a 1999 biographical drama film loosely based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam (and its 1946 film adaptation), which give a fictionalised account of the diaries of Anna Leonowens. The story concerns Anna, an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the late 19th century, who becomes the teacher of King Mongkut's many children and wives.The film was directed by Andy Tennant and stars Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat. It was mostly shot in Malaysia, particularly in the Penang, Ipoh and Langkawi region. It was an Academy Award nominee in 1999 for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

External link In today's short, we get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outbursts...until he meets a bird who can keep him in check.
External link A look at the Voyager spacecraft and the Golden Record that it carried into space.
Black Box
External Link How far should lawyers go to provide the best defense to the worst people?

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August 2015

VIDEO: Radiolab Presents: Radio Ambulante
External Link Getting a firm hold on the truth is never as simple as nailing down the facts of a situation. This hour, we go after a series of seemingly simple facts -- facts that offer surprising insight, facts that inspire deeply different stories, and facts that, in the end, might not matter at all.

Hugh Fraser as Hastings

External link It’s hard to think of anything more rational, more logical and impersonal than a number. But what if we’re all, universally, also deeply attuned to how numbers … feel? Why 2 is warm, 7 is strong and 11 is downright mystical.
New Normal?
External link Some things are simply unknowable, from the pain another person feels to the reasons why they commit horrible acts. In this hour, we meet people who are trying to measure and make sense of things they can’t quite grasp—from the quest to pin down a standard measurement for pain, to a pair of performers who, night after night, step on stage with absolutely no plan. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Inside "Ouch!"" , "Killer Empathy" , and "Radiolab Presents: TJ & Dave" .
External Link As Candid Camera succeeded, it started to change the way we thought not only of reality television, but also of reality itself.
External link Pain is a fundamental part of life, and often a very lonely part. Doctors want to understand their patients' pain, and we all want to understand the suffering of our friends, relatives, or spouses. But pinning down another person's hurt is a slippery business.
Killing Babies, Saving the World
Space Capsules
External link Former Radiolab producer Lulu Miller and NPR reporter Alix Spiegel come to the studio to give us a sneak peek of their new show, Invisibilia from their upcoming episode on categories.
Curious Sounds: A Radiolab Concert
Blame

A2 ("A" Squared), A2 ("A"-two), Tree Town, The People's Republic of Ann Arbor

Sight Unseen
Jay's Kids and Kids on Spirituality
Bigger Than Bacon
External Link This hour, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s clear what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but what happens in-between is a mystery. From the darkest parts of metamorphosis, to a sixty-year-old secret among magicians, to the nature of consciousness itself, we confront the stubborn gaps in our understanding.

Anna Notaras (Greek Ἄννα Νοταρᾶ; died 8 July 1507) was the daughter of Loukas Notaras, the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire.She left Constantinople prior to fall of Constantinople in 1453, settling in Rome and avoiding the massacre of her family. In Italy, with the fortune her father had wisely invested abroad, she became the center of the Byzantine expatriate community in Venice.

External link There are some questions that just don't give in to experiments and data. We take on one of those questions.
Are We Coins?
Nike, Nature's Revenge and Gunrunners

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

External link What's the soundtrack for the end of the world? We go looking for an answer. When Jad started to compose music for our live show Apocalyptical, he immediately thought of John Luther Adams. Adams' symphony “Become Ocean,” rooted in the sounds of nature, is elemental, tectonic, and unstoppable. It seemed a natural fit for our consideration of the extinction of the dinosaurs. In this piece, Jad introduces Robert to a special on Adams from a podcast called Meet the Composer. Through interviews and snippets of his music, it captures all the forces at play in Adam's work and reveals the dark majesty of Adams' take on the apocalypse.
Looking Back
Update: New Normal?
External link 200 miles above Earth's surface, astronaut Dave Wolf -- rocketing through the blackness of Earth's shadow at 5 miles a second -- floated out of the Mir Space Station on his very first spacewalk. In this short, he describes the extremes of light and dark in space, relives a heart-pounding close call, and shares one of the most tranquil moments of his life.
Dark Side of the Earth
External link The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking.
External link When scientists treat words like data, clues to the real-life mysteries of human aging are found in the writings of Agatha Christie and 678 nuns.
External link In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible.

Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott

Home, Fast Food and Screamologists
External Link A look up and down the US nuclear chain of command to find out who gets to authorize their use and who can stand in the way of Armageddon.
External link From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, 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.
Speed
External link How a group of paranormal investigators made one man realize what it really means for a house, or a man, to be haunted.
External link This hour, we question what decides the trajectory of our lives -- individual force of will, or fate? If destiny isn't written in the stars, could it be written in our genes? Kids struggle to resist marshmallows, and their ability to hold out at age 4 turns out to predict how successful they're likely to be the rest of their lives. And an unexpected find in a convent archive uncovers early warning signs for dementia in the writings of 18-year-olds. Compiled from the Radiolab shorts "Mischel’s Marshmallows" , "Secrets of Success" , and "Vanishing Words" .

Alexandra Rachel "Sasha" Druyan Sagan

External link Nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs with the power to transcend language, & the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.
Margins of the Musical Spectrum
Jad and Robert: The Early Years
The Skull
Pop Music
The Radio Lab Fundraising Special
Lost & Found

San Antonio, Texas, U.S.

Double Blasted
External link Celebrating the anniversary of the Wilbur and Orville Wright ushing in the Age of Flight and how that changed us.
External link "Hey kids," said physicist Tadashi Tokieda, "Wanna see a magic trick?" He pulled out a Slinky and did something that amazed the kids, & their dad Steve Strogatz. Steve, along with Neil deGrasse Tyson, explains what the gravity-defying Slinky trick reveals about the nature of all things great and small .
External link Carl Zimmer is one of our go-to guys when we need help untangling a complicated scientific idea. But in this short, he unravels something much more personal.
External link During World War II, something happened that nobody ever talks about. This is a tale of mysterious balloons, cowboy sheriffs, and young children caught up in the winds of war. And silence, the terror of silence.

Spain

External Link Guests John Cryan, Frederick Kaufman, Jonah Lehrer, Jon Reiner, Mary Roach, Arlene Shaner and Carl Zimmer share stories about reaching into cow and human stomachs, the connection between the intestines and the brain, and a story about a man rendered temporarily gutless.
External link A look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgotten.
External link Writer Ian Frazier made a startling discovery several years ago in eastern Siberia: no one he met there had ever heard of tic tac toe. In this short, Jad and Robert wonder how a game that seems carved into childhood DNA could be completely unknown in some parts of the world.
External link If you've ever wondered how the podcast comes together, or what it's like to work at Radiolab, here's a peek into our process.

Howard Lazarus

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External link At the start of this new year we crack open some fossils, peer back into ancient seas, and look up at lunar skies to find that a year is not quite as fixed as we thought it was.
External link Onstage at the SoHo Apple Store, Jad and Robert are joined by Walter Murch to talk about sound editing, editorial questions, and storytelling.
UPDATE: Famous Tumors
External link Radiolab asks what race is, and whether it's fixed or fluid, genes or culture?
External link Photojournalist Lynsey Addario captured something that happens all the time but few of us get to see, a soldier fatally wounded on the battlefield.
Colors Sneak Peek
Cut and Run

Michigan#USA

Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell. An adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same name by Margaret Landon, it was based on the fictionalized diaries of Anna Leonowens, an Anglo-Indian woman who claimed to be British and became governess in the Royal Court of Siam (now modern Thailand) during the 1860s. Darryl F. Zanuck read Landon's book in galleys and immediately bought the film rights.The story mainly concerns the culture clash of the Imperialist Victorian values of the British Empire with the supposedly autocratic rule of Siam's King Mongkut. The successful film starred Rex Harrison as the king and Irene Dunne as Anna. At the 19th Academy Awards ceremony, the film received two Oscars; for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler, William S. Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes). Nominations also went to Bernard Herrmann's score, to the screenplay and to supporting actress Gale Sondergaard.Landon's novel was later adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein for their 1951 stage musical The King and I and subsequent 1956 film of the same name. American film director Andy Tennant remade the film in 1999 as Anna and the King with Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-fat.The historical Anna Leonowens' surname is shortened to "Owens" in this film.The portrayal of Tuptim in Anna and the King of Siam, is considerably less sympathetic than in the musical version The King and I, as the 1946 film shows animosity between Tuptim and Anna, while the musical makes her into a romantic character. Also, Tuptim is ultimately executed cruelly by the king, following an episode in Leonowens's book, while in the musical, her fate is made ambiguous.