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G: Relative Genius
Episode 316
Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body,…
6 years, 9 months ago
G: Problem Space
Episode 315
In the first episode of G, Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence, we went back to the 1970s to meet a group of Black parents who put the IQ test on t…
6 years, 9 months ago
G: The Miseducation of Larry P
Episode 314
Are some ideas so dangerous we shouldn’t even talk about them? That question brought Radiolab’s senior editor, Pat Walters, to a subject that at firs…
6 years, 9 months ago
Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Episode 313
How a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has hounded journalists and lawyers for 40 ye…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Good Samaritan
Episode 312
On a Tuesday afternoon back in the summer of 2017, Scotty Hatton and Scottie Wightman both made a decision to help someone in need. They both paid a …
6 years, 10 months ago
Bit Flip
Episode 311
Back in 2003 Belgium was holding a national election. One of their first where the votes would be cast and counted on computers. Thousands of hours o…
6 years, 10 months ago
Dinopocalypse Redux
Episode 310
Using high-powered ballistics experiments, fancy computer algorithms, and good old-fashioned ancient geology, scientists have woven together a theory…
6 years, 11 months ago
Fu-Go
Episode 309
This week we’re going back to a favorite episode from 2015.
During World War II, something happened that nobody ever talks about. This is a tale of m…
6 years, 11 months ago
Americanish
Episode 308
In 1903 the US Supreme Court refused to say that Isabel González was a citizen of the United States. Then again, they said, she wasn’t a exactly an i…
6 years, 11 months ago
For Whom the Cowbell Tolls
Episode 307
When Nancy Holten was 8 years old her mom put her in a moving van. She fell asleep, woke up in Switzerland, and she's been there ever since. Nancy is…
7 years ago