Scienceline

How water and forest combined to build a city We all have places we love, but we don't often stop to think about what makes these places special. A Sense of Place is all about exploring how a place's...

8 Feb 201611min

This is Potato Potato. Each episode we'll invite a mystery guest to tell us a story. Then we’ll have a linguist try to guess where our storyteller comes from. And maybe along the way we’ll learn somet...

8 Feb 201618min

We’ve all heard household and health tips from our moms, grandmothers and know-it-all friends. But what makes a tip a life hack or just quack? In this episode of the Life Hack Almanac we’ll explore wh...

4 Jan 20168min

An interview with Girardin Jean-Louis, a behavioral sleep scientist at NYU, produced by Katherine Ellen Foley. Image credit: Lauren J. Young.

16 Sep 20154min

Nelson Dellis wears many hats. He’s a software developer, mountaineer and runs a charity that raises money for Alzheimer’s research. But most famously, he’s a memory athlete: He’s won the USA Memory C...

11 Maj 20155min

For 18 years now, the USA Memory Championships have challenged competitors — “mental athletes” — to stretch the limits of their minds to memorize and recall names and faces, random digits and words an...

11 Maj 20157min

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17 Mars 20152min

These audio files feature a male swamp sparrow’s trill, which consists of the same syllable rapidly repeated over and over again. The first file is the trill at normal speed, and the second file is th...

14 Jan 20152s