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What's Up, Doc?
Episode 140
Mel Blanc was known as "the man of 1,000 voices," but the actual number may have been closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Barney Rubble -…
13 years, 4 months ago
Seeing in the Dark
Episode 139
John and Zoltan are both blind, but they deal with the world in completely different ways -- one paints vivid pictures in his mind, while the other r…
13 years, 5 months ago
Dark Side of the Earth
Episode 138
200 miles above Earth's surface, astronaut Dave Wolf -- rocketing through the blackness of Earth's shadow at 5 miles a second -- floated out of the M…
13 years, 5 months ago
The Fact of the Matter
Episode 137
Getting a firm hold on the truth is never as simple as nailing down the facts of a situation. This hour, we go after a series of seemingly simple fac…
13 years, 6 months ago
What a Slinky Knows
Episode 136
"Hey kids," said physicist Tadashi Tokieda, "Wanna see a magic trick?" He pulled out a Slinky and did something that amazed the kids, & their dad Ste…
13 years, 6 months ago
Inside "Ouch!"
Episode 135
Pain is a fundamental part of life, and often a very lonely part. Doctors want to understand their patients' pain, and we all want to understand the …
13 years, 7 months ago
REBROADCAST: Space
Episode 134
Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 2 (it rocketed off Earth on 8/20/77 carrying a copy of the Golden Record), and tip your hat t…
13 years, 7 months ago
Argentine Invasion
Episode 133
From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clo…
13 years, 8 months ago
Double Blasted
Episode 132
In early August of 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi had a run of the worst luck imaginable. A double blast of radiation left his future, and the future of his…
13 years, 8 months ago
Radiolab Remixed
Episode 131
Turning ideas into radio is one of the most exciting, frustrating, rewarding, and insanely fun things there is. Which got us thinking--why not ask yo…
13 years, 9 months ago