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Episodes
Sight Unseen
4/28/2015
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario captured something that happens all the time but few of us get to see, a soldier fatally wounded on the battlefield.
Duration:00:29:12
The Living Room
4/9/2015
Producer Briana Breen and the podcast Love + Radio bring us a story about a very eventful year in the life of an accidental voyeur.
Duration:00:28:18
Los Frikis
3/24/2015
The story of how punk rock’s arrival in Cuba allowed a small band of outsiders to sentence themselves to death and set themselves free.
Duration:00:31:37
La Mancha Screwjob
2/24/2015
This episode we pierce the spandex-ed heart of professional wrestling, and travel 400 years into the past to walk the line between reality and fantasy.
Duration:00:51:37
The Trust Engineers
2/9/2015
How a tiny group of social engineers are making our online relationships kindler and gentler, whether we like it or not.
Duration:00:30:36
American Football
1/29/2015
The most popular sport in the US is savage, creative, brutal & balletic. Love it or loathe it, it’s a touchstone of the American identity.
Duration:01:16:12
Radiolab Presents: Invisibilia
1/9/2015
The lines between boy and girl can be blurry but NPR's Invisibilia introduces us to someone with a very new idea of how blurry they can be.
Duration:00:31:32
Worth
12/23/2014
We’ve gathered a handful of stories that show how every time we think we’ve settled on a price for something, it slips out of our grasp.
Duration:01:13:57
Buttons Not Buttons
12/12/2014
A quartet of buttons that may just leave you stuck, rich, ugly, or dead. Confused? Push the button marked “Play”.
Duration:00:26:09
Outside Westgate
11/29/2014
After a public tragedy, a reporter looks at the space between the stories of the people who experienced it and the official narrative.
Duration:00:36:25
Patient Zero - Updated
11/13/2014
The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center, Patient Zero. We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.
Duration:01:09:54
Haunted
10/30/2014
How a group of paranormal investigators made one man realize what it really means for a house, or a man, to be haunted.
Duration:00:30:12
Translation
10/20/2014
How the right words can have the wrong meanings, and the best translations lead us to an understanding that's way deeper than language.
Duration:01:18:16
John Luther Adams
10/3/2014
What's the soundtrack for the end of the world? We go looking for an answer.
Duration:00:25:10
Juicervose
9/18/2014
Ron and Cornelia Suskind had two healthy young sons, thriving careers and a brand new home when their youngest, Owen, started to disappear.
Duration:00:43:39
In The Dust Of This Planet
9/8/2014
Horror, fashion, and the end of the world ... the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, philosophers, Jay-Z and True Detective.
Duration:00:41:34
Hello
8/21/2014
It's tough to make small talk with a stranger—especially when that stranger doesn't speak your language. (And he has a blowhole.)
Duration:00:45:48
Shorts: Happy Birthday Bobby K
8/7/2014
For Robert’s birthday we celebrate with some classic Krulwich and a peek into the spirit and sensibility that, in many ways, drives our show.
Duration:00:29:30
Shorts: For the Birds
7/24/2014
Today, a lady with a bird in her backyard upends our whole sense of what we may have to give up to keep a wild creature wild.
Duration:00:14:30
Galapagos
7/17/2014
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 happening?
We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.
Duration:01:05:45
