In this short, Jad and Robert wonder how a game that seems carved into childhood DNA could be completely unknown in some parts of the world. This hour of Radiolab: we explore the line between music and language, and turn to physics and biochemistry to ask how sound becomes feeling. Biopsychologist Barbara Smuts takes us to a remote area of Kenya, where she tried to gain the trust of a troop of baboons in the s. In this podcast, a story about obsession, creativity, and a strange symmetry between a biologist and a composer that revolves around one famously repetitive piece of music.
We play some never-released tape from the vault, and reveal a bit about what techniques we used to try and make it sing. Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour of Radiolab: implanting false memories in loved ones, and erasing painful ones by simply swallowing a pill. Plus: the story of a man with the worst case of amnesia ever documented.
Winners, losers, underdogs--what can games tell us about who we really are? Death is inevitable. But is it truly final? We stare down the very moment of passing, and speculate about what may lie beyond. Alan Turing's mental leaps about machines and computers were some of the most innovative ideas of the 20th century.
But the world wasn't kind to him. In this short, Robert wonders how Turing's personal life shaped his understanding of mechanical minds and human emotions. In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up.
But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible. How would you describe life on Earth to an alien? In , the Voyager spacecraft launched into space. And with it, went the Golden Record-- a sort of time capsule, a collection of sounds and images that would describe life on Earth to whomever or whatever might find it. In this podcast, Jad and Robert throw some physics at a bible story. We find out just how many trumpeters you'd actually need to blow down the walls of Jericho.
Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? In this short, Jad and Robert talk to an entomologist about the risks, and the rewards, of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes.
Is the world full of deep symmetries and ordered pairs? Or do we live in a lopsided universe? This striking video by Everynone plays with our yearning for balance, and reveals how beautiful imperfect matches can be. The video was inspired by our episode Desperately Seeking Symmetry. This hour, Radiolab revels in the elasticity of Time, and takes a spin through history--stopping at a 19 th -century railroad station in Ohio, a track meet, and a Beethoven concert.
From the symbolic power of the doctor coat, to the very real stash of opium in your brain, this hour of Radiolab explores the healing powers of belief and imagination. Richard Holmes went to Cambridge University intending to study the lives of poets. Until a dueling mathematician, and a dinner conversation composed entirely of gestures, changed his mind.
This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece from across the pond--a piece about soccer they fell in love with when they heard it at the Third Coast festival in Chicago. Most come with features such as layout options, whether or not to download new podcasts automatically, and sorting. In your podcatcher, access the search function and browse. Ideally you'll have an idea of what you want to look for; if not, most podcatchers have "trending" or "top" tab within their interface.
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You'll want to click the "subscriptions" tab or its equivalent in your manager of choice; from this step, you can usually download specific episodes. But in On the other end of the line was The U. One morning, Oliver Sipple went out for a walk.
A couple hours later, to his own surprise, he saved the life of the President of the United States. Today we have a story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. Reporter Avir Mitra and science journalist Lydia Denworth bring us a story about how one Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure.
In this short, Diane tells us how her disability gave rise to an extraordinary ability. It has now been 20 years since September 11th, Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, even psoriasis — these are diseases in which the body begins to attack itself, and they all have one thing in common: they affect women more than men.
Most autoimmune disorders do. And not just We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. But then, that summer, something unexpected happened: she failed a gender test. And was banned from the sport.
Before she knew it, Dutee was But last year, we began wondering… A major development in the case of Guantanamo detainee Abdul Latif Nasser. To listen to our series about him, go to theotherlatif. In the past few weeks, most people have probably seen Britney Spears' name or face everywhere.
When she stood in front of a judge virtually and protested the conservatorship she's been living under for the past 13 years, one harrowing From a family's Thanksgiving dinner, In this spin-off tale, Ethel Waters hijacks a degrading song and makes the music her own. We follow Harry's grandkids and great grandkids as they grapple with his legacy in their own The story of the post Black Swan years.
Harry Pace founded Black Swan Records exactly years ago. Second, cassettes filled with history make an epic journey across Africa with a group of Lost Boys.
And finally, Simon meets up with fellow Radiolabber David Gebel to dig through an old box of mixtapes and rediscover the unique power of these bygone love letters. Mixtape was reported, produced, scored and sound designed by me, Simon Adler, with music throughout by me. Unending reporting and production assistance was provided by Eli Cohen. In , Simon Goodwin had a strange thought. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software over the radio?
If so, could listeners record it off the air and onto a cassette tape? This experiment and dozens of others in the early 80s created a series of cassette fueled, analog internets. They copied and moved information like never before, upended power structures and created a poisonous social network that brought down a regime. In tape four of Mixtape, we examine how these early internet came about, and how the societal and cultural impacts of these analog information networks can still be felt today.
Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler with original music throughout by Simon. Top tier reporting and production assistance was provided by Eli Cohen.
And to Arash Aziz for helping us every step of the way with our story about Khomeini. And Simon Goodwin for making us that secret code. And to Micah Loewinger to tipping me off to these software radio broadcasts.
As the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in their North Vietnamese enemy. In , they found it. It was an old Vietnamese folktale involving a ghost, eternal damnation and fear - a tailor made weaponizable myth. And so, armed with tape recorders and microphones, the military set out to win the war by bringing this ghost story to life. Today, the story of these efforts and their ghosts that still haunt us today.
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