“I was screaming in my mind during most of the “Faith Healer” section of this show. You guys generally do a fantastic job of keeping things scientific and reasonable in your program, but I really wish there was a different point of view on this portion of the program.”
–Ben
Read Ben’s full comments about the “Faith […]
Yet another listener has sent in a youtube that makes us stop what we’re doing and gather around ye olde computer screen to gaze upon its offerings. Darn you, Ross Bennett, for indulging our desire to procrastinate! You want to us to finish Season 5, don’t you? Alas. This one’s too good not to pass […]
This spring, Robert Krulwich gave the commencement speech at California Institute of Technology. He called it “Tell Me a Story.” And commencement speech it may be, it gets at the heart of what we do here at Radiolab. It’s a treat to hear his passion. We enjoyed it. And we thought you might too.
If […]
Hey folks, we’re considering putting out a Best of Radio Lab CD in the fall and we’re looking for a few suggestions for what to include. Imagine if you could only play one story — not a whole show, but something a little smaller — which one would it be?
A few staff favorites:
- The Goat […]
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Here at Radiolab we’ve been known to tinker with sound… cutting music, ambi, and big ideas all together to get the point across in the most fun, interesting and understandable way. It’s not your typical public radio interview. Recently, we decided to check in with some of the guests on past episodes to see […]
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The excellent Brooklyn-based quarterly Cabinet dedicated its Spring ‘05 issue to laughter. You’re just going to have to buy a copy, because only a very small portion is available online…including this fine essay by Chris Turner on the fluid boundary between laughing and crying:
“Between the expressions of laughter and weeping […]
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Hydrogen sulfide stinks, but you knew that already, didn’t you. Hydrogen sulfide is flammable, but you probably knew that too (and I won’t ask how). But did you know hydrogen sulfide lowers blood pressure? and might protect the body from injury?
As little as 10 parts per million of hydrogen sulfide can irritate your […]
We’ve gotten a lot of great responses to our show Laughter. Tom was so inspired that he changed his voicemail:
“I was so excited that when I got to work I changed the end of my daily telephone greeting to “…make it a groovy day.” For some reason I then decided to start laughing like […]
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That’s our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very own brains. Featured: author Steven Johnson, […]
Last week, the band Neurotic and the PVCs brought new meaning to the idea of cultivating an audience. The band played to a crowd of human fans and a set of three robots. The robots are rigged with “neural networks” based on human neurology that allow them to make their own neural connections…and therefore develop […]