

Radiolab
Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.
Episodes


The Right Stuff

Stress

The Helen Keller Exorcism

Life in a Barrel

Speed

The Wordless Place

Hello

Forests on Forests

The First Radiolab

The 11th: A Letter From George

Darkode

Worst. Year. Ever.

Flop Off

Vanishing Words

Return of Alpha Gal

Animal Minds

Mixtape: Help?
Cassette tapes fundamentally altered human connection by providing a portable, intimate medium for personal transformation and memory preservation. Hypnotists leveraged the technology’s dual-track capabilities to bypass conscious resistance, while the Dinka people of South Sudan utilized recorders to archive oral histo...

Mixtape: Cassetternet
Cassette tapes fundamentally reshaped the 1980s by serving as an unconventional medium for digital data distribution and political mobilization. Before the internet, innovators like Simon Goodwin utilized radio broadcasts to transmit computer software through audio tones, enabling a primitive form of file sharing. In C...

Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
The "Wandering Soul" tape served as a psychological warfare weapon during the Vietnam War, designed to exploit the deep-seated cultural fear of an unburied spirit wandering in the afterlife. By broadcasting eerie, synthesized cries of dead soldiers through the jungle, the U.S. military aimed to demoralize North Vietnam...
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