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Terrestrials

Welcome, nature lovers, to the home of the Terrestrials podcast and family-friendly Radiolab episodes about nature. Every other week, host Lulu Miller will take you on a nature walk to encounter a plant or animal behaving in ways that will surprise you. Squirrels that can regrow their brains, octopuses that can outsmart their human captors, honeybees that can predict the future. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew. You’ll hear a range of nature stories on this podcast. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes, full of original songs (by “The Songbud” Alan Goffinski) that tell a fantastical-sounding story about nature that is 100% true. Sometimes these will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, leafiest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. The stories that drop here will always be family-friendly and safe for kids. They will always be sound-rich and full of the vivid, gripping storytelling you’ve come to expect from Radiolab. They will always transport you to the beyond-human world: into the depths of the ocean, into jungles, prairies, forests, space, snow, wildflower fields and beyond. Sometimes we’ll encounter something so wild we just have to break out into song about it! Don’t worry, good voices not required. Join us on this adventure!

Episodes

This episode explores the longevity and lifestyle of bowhead whales, using a fictional podcast within a podcast format. Against the backdrop of introducing "Flip and Mozi's Guide to How to be an Earthling," a children's podcast featuring two alien characters learning about Earth creatures, a segment about a bowhead wh...

Introducing: Brains On

10 Nov 2022

33m

Terrestrials: A New Kids Show from Radiolab

15 Sep 2022

Behaves So Strangely

27 Mar 2020

18m

Space

24 Mar 2020

56m

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This podcast episode explores our place in the universe and the significance of space exploration. It delves into the wonder of stargazing and the potential for life on other planets, as well as the Voyager Interstellar Message Project and the concept of sending messages into space. The episode also discusses our evolv...

Colors

24 Mar 2020

1h 10m

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This podcast episode explores the nature of color perception, from Isaac Newton's discovery that colors are properties of prisms rather than intrinsic to light itself, to the unique vision of animals like mantis shrimps and the potential for curing color blindness in humans. The conversation also delves into the concep...

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Terrestrials

Episodes

Milky Seas From Atlas Obscura

The Littlest Black Hole

Zoozve

A Feast for Baboons

Whale of a Rescue

New Episodes of Terrestrials Coming in September!

Wild Talk

Why Do I Love the Fly That’s Eating My Brain?

Human vs Horse

The Gorilla in the Room

Special Announcement

Introducing: NPR's Life Kit

Introducing: Flip and Mozi's Guide to How to be an Earthling

Introducing: Brains On

Terrestrials: A New Kids Show from Radiolab

Behaves So Strangely

Space

Colors