";s:4:"text";s:5326:" Best Radiolab Episodes. In this episode we follow Mark on a journey to one of the darkest consequences of humanity’s attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes, following him through history, science fiction and a version of eugenics that’s still very much alive today, and watch as he crusades to restore a dash of moral order to the universe.
Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate. Episode 4: Afghanistan
He traces the government’s story through scrappy training camps, bombed out Buddhas, and McDonald’s apple pies to the very center of the Battle of Tora Bora. Turns out, the tests are all around us. And they’re massive in schools.
Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. That’s because of a little-known case called Larry P v Riles that in the 1970s … put the IQ test itself on trial. This board contains the best & most popular Radiolab episodes.
This week, we meet the families in California dealing with that ban forty years later. A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea.
Back in 2008 Facebook began writing a document. We're thrilled to present a piece from one of our favorite podcasts, Love + Radio (Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker). Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery.
Latif investigates the mystery around Abdul Latif’s classified time in Afghanistan. It has been three years since then, so hopefully, we get another update sometime soon.We go all the way back to May 24th, 2007, for this one. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. This week Jad and Radiolab alum Tim Howard revisit a favorite episode from 2012. So that’s a whole lot of listening.The show features a lot of heavy topics, and can be hard to get into for those podcast fans that are used to listening to a new show in chronological order. So today, we're releasing a separate feed, Radiolab for Kids.
Or a nightmarish prank gone too far? Back in 1995, Claude Steele published a study that showed that negative stereotypes could have a detrimental effect on students' academic performance.
Abumrad and Krulwich don’t claim to be experts on hip hop or even moderately knowledgeable about it, but in this episode they explore various aspects of the genre and what makes it so unique. Given such exciting subject material, it’s no wonder this episode is such a captivating listen.
If you're a fan of the RadioLab podcasts on WNYC (a New York City NPR affiliate), this list of RadioLab episodes is a gold mine of all the greatest bits from RadioLab. And CRISPR. Today, we explore that rulebook. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. This hour, Radiolab revisits the strange things that emerge when something happens, then happens again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and… well, again. While much of this episode is deeply serious and focuses on some of the deadliest pandemics in history, there is also a bit of humor as Abumrad and Krulwich reflect on how disease may have spread through cowboy hats during the 1865 Colorado Gold Rush.
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And can they be used for good? Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. A DUI? Three stories are presented on the topic of blame, both the moral aspects of it and new technology that can help us understand the concept more deeply. Finally, they talk to a woman who got to watch herself think the thought that she was watching herself think the thought that she was watching herself think the thought that ... you get the point. While deeply informative, it is also an episode meant to spark questions and wonder, which is what Thought you knew everything there was to know about sleep? You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: www.nytimes.com/triage
In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Special thanks to Yiyun Huang, lab manager at Yale's Canine Cognition Center. All the while wondering, where exactly is the genius of a man who changed the way we view the world? Alecia Faith Pennington was born at home, homeschooled, and never visited a dentist or a hospital. This episode of Radiolab considers what it might be like to be the goalkeeper and what types of people are drawn to this loneliest of roles on a soccer team.
Special thanks to Savannah Escobar, Nick Reed, Chris Van Deusen, David Glenn, Zen Allegra, Russell Whelan, Rachel Coleman and Lake Travis Zipline Adventures.
The episode ends with a bombshell jailhouse interview with Abdul Latif, the most reliable evidence yet of what was going on in this man’s mind in the months after 9/11.
Radiolab’s “G” is supported in part by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. Correction: An earlier version of this episode's web copy incorrectly stated that Faith Pennington was born on a farm.
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