Podcast Episodes

Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud

Episode 647

Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.

What does a betrayed lover’s revenge have to do w…

9 months, 1 week ago

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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…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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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…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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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 t…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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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, …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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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 …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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It's Like ... Radiolab

Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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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-ea…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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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 toda…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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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. S…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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