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A foul-mouthed, chicken-loving Montanan completely altered the course of human health. His story also lays bare the struggles inherent in our globa...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Or is it?

  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Today, we tell the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, a hard headed computer programmer who bent the will of technology to the Chinese language, and ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, stories of fool-hardy flipping and daring-dos.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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What are the police for?

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Today on Radiolab: a cosmic chain of events that causes computer chaos.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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In this episode, we search for the single vote that made all the difference, from the biggest election on the planet, to a tiny election that ended...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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If the president orders the launch of nuclear weapons, is there anyone that can say, “NO”?

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Democracy is on the ropes. Today on Radiolab, we ask a different question: how do we fix it?

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The third episode in our Border Trilogy follows anthropologist Jason De León after he makes a grisly discovery in Arivaca, Arizona. With the human ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This is the second in our three part series exploring the roots of this policy; after the showdown in court with Bowie High School, Border Patrol b...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The unlikely story of how a handful of Mexican-American high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country stood up to what is today...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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In this episode, we look at how a key battle for gender equality was won with frat boys and beer.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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This hour we’re searching for platonic ideals, longing for completion, engaged in epic quests for holy grails in science, linguistics and world peace.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Should a juror be able to ignore the law? Today, a hidden power that is either the cornerstone of our democracy or a trapdoor to anarchy.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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A journey to one of the darkest sides of humanity’s attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for genius that won’t seem to let us go.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Can IQ tests ever be used ... for good? This episode, we meet a few people who think they can be.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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More than a million American kids a year get IQ tested, but in the state of California, if your kid is Black, they almost surely won’t be given one.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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What would it look like if everyone played to lose?

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00