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Dispatch 6: Strange Times
Episode 357
Covid has disrupted the most basic routines of our days and nights. But in the middle of a conversation about how to fight the virus, we find a place…
5 years, 10 months ago
Speedy Beet
Episode 356
There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven m…
5 years, 10 months ago
Octomom
Episode 355
In 2007, Bruce Robison’s robot submarine stumbled across an octopus settling in to brood her eggs. It seemed like a small moment. But as he went back…
5 years, 10 months ago
Why Fish Don't Exist
Episode 354
Our old friend Lulu Miller — former Radiolab producer, co-creator of Invisibilia — has been obsessed by the chaos that rules the universe since long …
5 years, 10 months ago
David and Dominique
Episode 353
David Gebel and Dominique Crisden have a couple of things in common: they both live in New York, they’re both gay, and they’re both HIV-positive. But…
5 years, 10 months ago
Dispatch 5: Don't Stop Believin'
Episode 352
Covid-19 has put emergency room doctors on the frontlines treating an illness that is still perplexing and unknown. Jad tracks one ER doctor in NYC a…
5 years, 10 months ago
Atomic Artifacts
Episode 351
Back in the 1950s, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, federal officials sat down and pondered what American life would actually look like aft…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Cataclysm Sentence
Episode 350
One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate …
5 years, 11 months ago
Dispatch 4: Six Feet
Episode 349
Since the onset of the pandemic, we exist in a constant state of calculation, trying to define our own personal bubble. We’ve all been given a simple…
5 years, 11 months ago
Space
Episode 348
One of the most consistent questions we get at the show is from parents who want to know which episodes are kid-friendly and which aren’t. So today, …
5 years, 11 months ago