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Radiolab — Documentary
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 science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

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Detective Stories Sep 10, 2007

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Forensics, archeology, genealogy, and genetics are devoted to figuring out what really happened. In this hour of Radiolab, digging up the past leads to some very unexpected finds.

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This is Your Brain On Love Aug 28, 2007

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Radiolab is given the charge to put on a Singles Night. That's right. 'Jad,' they said, 'stand on a stage and make strangers fall in love! Or, at least, you know, exchange a few phone numbers with each other.' So obviously, we turned to science. Jad consults a few experts on the chemistry of a 'brain on love.'

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Emergence Aug 14, 2007

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What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies -- all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. This hour of Radiolab, we ask how this happens.

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Morality Aug 13, 2007

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Where does our sense of right and wrong come from?

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Beyond Time Jul 24, 2007

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This hour, Radiolab goes to the front lines with men and women who are battling against time -- or at least the common-sense view of time.

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Mortality Jun 14, 2007

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This hour of Radiolab: is death a disease that can be cured?

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Memory and Forgetting Jun 07, 2007

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This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.

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Zoos Jun 04, 2007

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In a cruel trick of evolution, humans can stand just three feet from a ferocious animal and still be perfectly safe. This hour, Radiolab goes to the zoo.

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Time May 29, 2007

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Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire." And it’s still as close a definition as we have. This hour of Radiolab, we try our hand at unlocking the mysteries of time. We stretch and bend it, wrestle with its subjective nature, and wrap our minds around strategies to standardize it...stopping along the way at a 19th-century railroad station in Ohio, a track meet, and a Beethoven concert.

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Sleep May 24, 2007

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Birds do it, bees do it...yet science still can't answer the basic question: why do we sleep?

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