(Editor's Update: A comment from a Radiolab producer and a link to their follow up interview with the filmmakers is appended.) The award-winning show, hosted by Macarthur fellow Jad Abumrad and ...

For many people, including myself, Radiolab was one of the first podcasts we listened to that introduced us to a whole new world outside of ourselves that we had never considered before. Along the way ...

Socrates once said, “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” As for me, I know I’m intelligent, because I know what Socrates said. But are either of those good metrics for ...

How do we know what we know? What makes us certain of reality? In this hour of Radiolab, we take a look at how doubt and certainty work in the brain and even ask questions about the existence of God.

Ellen Horne, executive producer of WNYC’s Radiolab, is taking a job at Audible as an executive producer. At Audible, Horne joins Eric Nuzum, a former programming v.p. at NPR who left the network in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Not five minutes after I sit down with Jad Abumrad for chorizo eggs and a cappuccino ...

The public radio program Radiolab distanced itself from Jonah Lehrer after the celebrated science writer admitted Monday that he fabricated quotes in his book, “Imagine: How Creativity Works.” Lehrer ...

APPLETON - Everyone starts somewhere. But for "Radiolab" creator Jad Abumrad, his start has been "lost to the internet." And for that, he's grateful. "There's about 50 (episodes) that I made before we ...

From the silent words of a child forming her first thought, to the inner heckler that taunts you when the pressure's on, a look at how the voices in our heads shape us -- for better and for worse.

If history proves correct, Magicicada Brood II will emerge this spring after living underground for 17 years. In many places along the Eastern Seaboard — from North Carolina to Connecticut — the ...

“The simple act of telling a story,” says Jad Abumrad, “feels musical, deeply musical.” The founder and co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Radiolab argues that compelling ...

On the first day of my microbiology class last week, my professor asked if anyone had heard of Ignaz Semmelweis. My hand shot up in the air as I proudly declared that I did, in fact, know who Ignaz ...