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Listen to “Choice,” the first episode in Radio Lab’s fifth season, this Friday (Nov 14) at 3pm on 93.9 FM WNYC. Afterwards, go to themorningnews.org to join co-host Jad Abumrad and your fellow Radio Lab listeners for a live online chat from 4-5pm.

Just wanted to let you know: Robert and I were interviewed for The Sound of Young America, a great public radio show hosted by Jesse Thorne. He’s got a good radio voice, that one. And he uses that radio voice to ask insightful radio questions.

Here’s the link. Let us know what you think!

This is my first blog post. Ever.

More will follow!

Pitchfork’s Chris Dahlen wraps his brain around Radiolab’s sonic storytelling in his “Get That Out Of Your Mouth” column:

“…every episode is incredibly listenable– mellifluous and intricately produced, with a gentle, steady rhythm. Abumrad calls each show “a kind of hour-long composition,” and if you squint your ears, that’s what it sounds like. The voices sound musical, and the music is twisted and manipulate– like when a couple seconds of Beethoven’s Ninth are stretched infinitely to make a point about the passage of time. Dramatizations and funny sound effects elaborate on a point– they’re especially fond of the noises for the brain scans– and ambient backdrops illustrate, say, a jet pilot having an out-of-body experience.”

Hear Beethoven’s Ninth stretched in “Musical Language.”

Listen to a pilot’s out-of-body experience in “Where Am I.“

Orli Van Mourik considers what makes Jad tick in a profile featured in The Villager:

“It’s rare to find a person like Abumrad: Someone inclined to ask the questions, but perfectly content not to have all the answers. Maybe this is what happens when an artist is raised in a family of scientists.”

What Is Enlightenment Magazine lauded Radiolab as “a fun, educational, and hip investigative-philosophical radio program” in its April-June 2007 issue:

“What you will not find here is dryness. The dialogues, sound effects, and commentary are mixed, spliced, shuffled, and rearranged into almost musical counterpoint, spiced with the wit and humor of the hosts.”

The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher explores Radiolab’s journeys to new frontiers of reporting:

“‘Radio Lab’ seeks to tell stories of cosmology, neuroscience and anthropology in a language new to broadcasting. Krulwich brings his affinity for sound effects, dramatizations and a narrative style reminiscent of great children’s literature together with Abumrad’s experiments in manipulating recorded speech to emphasize ideas and to break through media clutter.”

Read the full article here.

Oberlin Alumni Magazine reflects on the unmistakable chemistry between Jad and Robert in its Summer 2006 edition:

“Following their noses led Krulwich and Abumrad to forge a collaboration—both on and off the air—that projects the easy intimacy and “instinct to provoke” of a long-term marriage. They record the show sitting 15 feet away from each other, separated by glass. But their parallel experiences—separated by 25 years—draw them together.”