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Baby Shark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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