Podcast Episodes

Baby Shark

Episode 646

This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills. Drama. Death. Even a coliseum of baby sharks duk…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Mystery Bay

Episode 645

This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Alison Kock was working at a car wash in Cape Town when she made a discovery that completely changed the course of her life. I…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Shark Inside You

Episode 644

This is episode three of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Today, we take a trip across the world, from the south coast of Australia to … Wisconsin. Here, scientists are scouring shark…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Cage

Episode 643

This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Jaws spawned a thousand imitators: sharks in tornados, sharks in avalanches, sharks that battle giant octopuses. Hollywood has …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Making a Monster

Episode 642

Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Rodney Fox went into the ocean one summer day in 1963. He came out barely alive, his body torn apart by a great white shark. At the tim…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks

In the summer of 1975, Jaws scared an entire generation out of the water. The film burned an idea into our cultural memory: they are mindless, man-eating monsters. We set out to tell a different stor…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Double-Blasted

Episode 641

We first aired this episode in 2012, but at the show we’ve been thinking a lot about resilience and repair so we wanted to play it for you again today. It’s about a man who experienced maybe one of t…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Elixir of Life

Episode 640

Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage at a little basement club called Caveat, here in New York. Starting with an ingredient in breastmilk that babi…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

A Flock of Two

Episode 640

Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffers from a problem that not only puts his life at r…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Echo in the Machine

Episode 639

Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew…

Published on 3 months ago