Radiolab

When evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' daughter was six years old, he told her that flowers are not here for beauty, not here for the bees, but instead merely to copy their own DNA. Sigh, what a...

14 Juli 200918min

After we released our show about Stochasticity, we received a lot of comments about the idea humans can be just as predictable as coins. In that show, Jonah Lehrer was telling us about a study on the ...

30 Juni 200918min

Stochasticity (a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness), may be at the very foundation of our lives. To understand how big a role it plays, we look at chance and patterns in sports...

15 Juni 200957min

This week on the podcast we take a look at four unconventional ways to stay alive. We talk to geneticist George Church, who originally appeared in our So Called Life Show, biologist Bernd Heinrich, ne...

2 Juni 200915min

On May 6th, at WNYC's new Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, we opened up an age old can of worms. Jad and Robert faced off over which medium is superior -- television or radio. This American Life's ...

19 Maj 200923min

Sometimes on the podcast, we like to talk about musicians and the music they make. Today we introduce you to Juana Molina. Last season we used some of her of music in the breaks for the Sperm show. We...

5 Maj 200914min

Here at Radiolab we explore big ideas and ask big questions to see how the world works. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of pe...

7 Apr 200926min

Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how could you make another one? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for infor...

26 Mars 200916min