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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

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Inheritance

01 Apr 2022
1h 4m
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The Right Stuff

25 Mar 2022
40m
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Stress

18 Mar 2022
57m
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The Helen Keller Exorcism

11 Mar 2022
1h 3m
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Life in a Barrel

04 Mar 2022
53m
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Speed

25 Feb 2022
56m
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The Wordless Place

18 Feb 2022
26m
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Hello

11 Feb 2022
46m
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Forests on Forests

04 Feb 2022
24m
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The First Radiolab

28 Jan 2022
1h 24m
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The 11th: A Letter From George

21 Jan 2022
23m
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Darkode

14 Jan 2022
38m
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Worst. Year. Ever.

07 Jan 2022
24m
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Flop Off

31 Dec 2021
1h 15m
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Vanishing Words

17 Dec 2021
24m
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Return of Alpha Gal

10 Dec 2021
57m
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Animal Minds

26 Nov 2021
59m
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Mixtape: Help?

19 Nov 2021
48m
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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...

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Mixtape: Cassetternet

12 Nov 2021
58m
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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...

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Mixtape: The Wandering Soul

05 Nov 2021
40m
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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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