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The 20 Best Episodes of Radiolab

Radiolab was one of the first podcasts I ever listened to and it's been really good for a very long time. When people ask for a podcast recommendation, I usually send them to Radiolab first. So I put together this list of the best episodes of Radiolab. I'll update this list as I listen to new episodes.

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Reginald

Created July 27, 2021

Updated October 22, 2023

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  1. Best Radiolab Podcast Episodes

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    Juicervose

    1
    13Sep 18th, 201443m 39s
    Ron and Cornelia Suskind had two healthy young sons, promising careers, and a brand new home when their youngest son Owen started to disappear. 3 months later a specialist sat Ron and Cornelia down and said the word that changed everything for
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    The Rhino Hunter

    1
    1Sep 7th, 201552m 17s
    Back in 2014, Corey Knowlton paid $350,000 for a hunting trip to Namibia to shoot and kill an endangered species.  He’s a professional hunter, who guides hunts all around the world, so going to Africa would be nothing new.  The target on the ot
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    Colors

    17
    15May 21st, 20121h 5m
    Our world is saturated in color, from soft hues to violent stains. How does something so intangible pack such a visceral punch? This hour, in the name of science and poetry, Jad and Robert tear the rainbow to pieces.
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    Shorts: 9-Volt Nirvana

    3Jun 26th, 201424m 27s
    Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe.Sally Adee, an editor at New Scientist, was at a conference for DARPA - The Defense Advance
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    Galapagos

    1
    2Jul 17th, 20141h 2m
    Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from ha
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    Apocalyptical

    1
    2Dec 10th, 2013
    Cataclysmic destruction. Surprising survival. In this new live stage performance, Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonizingly slow.
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    The Gondolier

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    44Jun 15th, 201754m 35s
    What happens when doing what you want to do means giving up who you really are? We travel to Venice, Italy with reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice,
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    Playing God

    5
    26Aug 22nd, 20161h 1m
    When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in
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    The Cathedral

    4
    21Dec 28th, 201531m 24s
    Ryan and Amy Green were facing the unfaceable: their youngest son, Joel was diagnosed with terminal cancer after his first birthday. Producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how Ryan and Amy stumble onto an unlikely way of processing thei
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    The Great Vaccinator

    5
    11Dec 3rd, 202041m 59s
    Until now, the fastest vaccine ever made - for mumps - took four years. And while our current effort to develop a covid-19 vaccine involves thousands of people working around the clock, the mumps vaccine was developed almost exclusively by one
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    The Bad Show

    4
    21Jul 28th, 20181h 9m
    With all of the black-and-white moralizing in our world today, we decided to bring back an old show about the little bit of bad that's in all of us...and the little bit of really, really bad that's in some of us.  Cruelty, violence, badness...
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    Escape!

    2
    22Feb 21st, 20121h 5m
    Stories about traps and getaways ... about getting stuck, and breaking free.
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    Guts

    2
    1Apr 2nd, 2012
    A look at the messy mystery in our middles, and what the rumblings deep in our bellies can tell us about ourselves.
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    Shorts: Unraveling Bolero

    1
    13Jun 19th, 2012
    In this podcast, a story about obsession, creativity, and a strange symmetry between a biologist and a composer that revolves around one famously repetitive piece of music.
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    Inheritance

    2
    1Nov 20th, 20121h 3m
    Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Or is it? This hour, we put nature and nurture on a collision course and discover how outside forces can find a way inside us, shaping not just our hearts and minds, but the basic bi
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    Blame

    1
    1Sep 12th, 20131h 2m
    We've all felt it, that irresistible urge to point the finger. But new technologies are complicating age-old moral conundrums about accountability. This hour, we ask what blame does for us -- why do we need it, when isn't it enough, and what ha
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    Black Box

    2
    1Jan 17th, 20141h 5m
    This hour, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s clear what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but what happens in-between is a mystery. From the darkest parts of metamorphosis, to a sixty yea
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    Hello

    Aug 21st, 201445m 48s
    It's hard to start a conversation with a stranger—especially when that stranger is, well, different. He doesn't share your customs, celebrate your holidays, watch your TV shows, or even speak your language. Plus he has a blowhole.In this episo
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    In The Dust Of This Planet

    2
    Sep 8th, 201441m 34s
    Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective.Today on Radiolab, a puzzle. Jad’s brother-in-law wrote a book
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    Worth

    1Dec 23rd, 20141h 11m
    This episode, we make three earnest, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. We figure out the dollar value for an accidental death, another day of life, and the work of bats and bees as we try to keep our careful calculat
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