Live In Studio: Braids
The members of Braids have been playing together since they were young — really young. In fact, founding members Raphaelle Standell-Preston and Austin Tufts first met as children hanging out in a...
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This Pioneering Cosmonaut Will Be Your New Heroine, Thanks to "Orange is the...
One of the loveliest and strangest things about Orange is the New Black is the way obscure little factoids are sprinkled through every episode. Would the average inmate be able to describe a pangolin,...
View ArticleTo Kill a Childhood Hero
You've probably heard about this new book that came out this week: it's called Go Set a Watchman, it's by Harper Lee — her second novel ever to be published, after To Kill a Mockingbird— and its...
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How to Make a Moth
If you have a light outside your front door — even a dim, flickery light — you probably already have moths in your life. Maybe you've got a cabbage moth out there, or a tiger moth. But do you have a...
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The Bird and the Bee Live In-Studio
Every Friday, Inara George and Greg Kurstin (who perform and record as The Bird and the Bee) meet up to make music. At times, other obligations and opportunities have threatened to pull them away —...
View ArticleInfinite Jester: Jason Segel Plays David Foster Wallace
Jason Segel brings a goofy, authentic sweetness to almost every part he plays: a lovesick drummer on the TV show Freaks and Geeks, a forlorn composer in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Despite his...
View ArticleLily Tomlin’s Audacious Life
Few performers have had careers as long or as extraordinary as Lily Tomlin has. While a lot of actresses find themselves cast in the same ingénue roles over and over — until they're old enough to be...
View ArticleShaken and Stirred by a Black 007
If you’re a fan of the James Bond films, your ears perk up whenever a new 007 is announced. Since his cinema debut in the 1960's, Bond has been played by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby,...
View ArticleAlice Cooper Will Not Stop Dying
No musician has died more often or more dramatically in front of more people than Alice Cooper. His highly theatrical rock shows have variously ended with depictions of him being electrocuted,...
View ArticleEat, Pray, Work: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Secret to Creativity
Elizabeth Gilbert is best known for her best-seller-turned-Hollywood-blockbuster Eat, Pray, Love. But she hasn’t just been hanging out in Bali and gorging on pasta in the afterglow of that success:...
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Extra Credit: Learning from the Popsicle Stick Master
David Hrobowski is a master crafter. His medium of choice? The humble popsicle stick. David has pushed the limits of this craft store staple, using it to build tables, sculptural chairs, and even an...
View ArticleBetter Chemistry Through Beauty
I hated every single endless minute of my high school chemistry class. I'd stare at the chemical equations on the chalkboard, waiting to be balanced, all their little subscripts and arrows and...
View ArticleBrace Yourself — There's a Lot of TV Coming Your Way
This fall, you can spend your after-work hours (or, heck, all day if you have your own office) watching the revamped Muppet Show on ABC, singing along to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on the CW, or glued to The...
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“Victoria,” the One-Shot Wonder
Sebastian Schipper has worked in film for almost three decades, appearing in some of Germany’s most well-known foreign releases, including Run Lola Run, as well as writing and directing his own...
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A Story You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
The Story of My Teethis the latest novel from writer and world-traveler Valeria Luiselli. Born in Mexico City, Luiselli spent her childhood and early adulthood moving from one place to the next, living...
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What Is the Multiverse (Or, How Can There Be Two Mr. Spocks)?
The parallel universe is a staple of science fiction. These other universes — almost like one we know and love, but with subtle, uncanny differences — started showing up in programs like “The Twilight...
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The Theoretical Physicist Wore a Toga
It’s a basic human impulse to ask ourselves “what if?” What if I had made other decisions? Would things have turned out better, worse, or just different? Questions like that make the idea of multiple...
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Yo La Tengo Takes It Higher
Yo La Tengo knows how to cover a song. On past albums, they've brought their signature sound to everything from Cat Stevens to Jackson Browne to Petula Clark. So, in celebration of their newest album...
View ArticleAt The Rijksmuseum, Old Paintings Get New Names
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently made headlines when it removed offensive words, like "negro" and "dwarf," from the titles and descriptions of artworks in its collection. For example, a portrait...
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My GIFy Valentine
Valentine’s Day is all about feelings. Sweet feelings, romantic feelings … or the kind of feelings you bury in a pint of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.Studio 360 wants you to express those...
View ArticleJoan Shelley Live In Studio
Singer/songwriter Joan Shelley might have written her songs a century ago, though her latest album was released this fall. Reminiscent of the past without being retro, Shelley’s songs are simple but...
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Samantha Hunt Wants You to Believe
Samantha Hunt’s new novel, “Mr. Splitfoot,” is part ghost story, part twisted tale of a religious cult, part crazy road trip. It’s an exploration of love, motherhood, and our wish to make sense of the...
View ArticleThe Good Show
In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?The...
View ArticleAn Equation for Good
In a brief snippet from a conversation Robert had with Richard Dawkins at the 92 Street Y in New York City, we learn that natural selection is often a brutal arms race, inherently full of suffering and...
View ArticleRadiolab Reads: Room Temperature
This whole novel takes place in a few minutes, in a quiet room drenched with late-afternoon sun. As the narrator of Room Temperature feeds his baby daughter, he lets his mind wander—and you get to...
View ArticleEverything and Nothing
Math can get pretty loopy, at least when we try to explain it. But according to author Alex Bellos, the most straightforward mathematical concept might be the loopiest. Then producer Mark Philips...
View ArticleThe Most Horrible Seaside Vacation
In 1906, a rich family vacationing in Oyster Bay, NY started to get sick. Very sick. It turns out they'd come down with typhoid, a disease forever associated with one woman: Typhoid Mary. You think you...
View ArticleHome is Where Your Dancing Robot Lives
I’ve never really wanted a house. Whatever gene makes people crave white picket fences, stainless steel appliances and perfectly manicured lawns, I don’t have it. And OK, sure, there’s a little corner...
View ArticleIs There an Edge to the Heavens?
Edward Dolnick tells an escape story involving God, humanity, and a huge rewrite of cosmic laws. It began in 1665. A plague hit Cambridge University. All of the students were sent home. One of them is...
View ArticleVoyager Is Such a Tease
So, yesterday my heart skipped a tiny beat. If you heard my story about the Voyager Interstellar Mission in our Escape! episode, you know I’ve been patiently waiting for the moment when one of the...
View ArticleIf You Prick Us...
Shakespeare was really into blood. It saturated his work and literally soaked the floorboards in many of his productions. James Shapiro explains what blood meant to The Bard, in a time when the world...
View ArticleVoyager OUT
NASA is reporting that Voyager 1 has finally left the heliosphere and is now cruising through interstellar space!Read the NASA press release.Hear the sound of interstellar space:Listen to a Radiolab...
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Fluffier, Brighter, Weirder Dinosaurs
John Conway paints pictures of old dead things. But he doesn't paint them like they're old and dead—he paints them like maybe they’re outside your window right now, looking at you. I got interested in...
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The Lost Mushrooms of Oceania
Steve Axford’s photographs seem to come from a slightly enchanted place. It’s a place where the pale brown lumps I think of as "mushrooms" have been transformed into a host of strange new...
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The Timekeeper's Things
On my way to the workshop, I pass a haunted house. It's not October, not even close, so I'm pretty surprised to see scarecrows and plastic skeletons and—is that a hearse? Yes it is. It takes all my...
View ArticleHello
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...
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