Best of Radiolab

Radiolab is a podcast with masterful journalistic storytelling on science, history, politics and more. Here are our favorite moments.

Radiolab is a podcast with masterful journalistic storytelling on science, history, pol... more

Curated byJorge Patino, Hark Editor

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Why Trees and Fungus Need Each Other

Radiolab host Robert Krulwich and producer Annie McEwen investigate the coexisting interplay between mycelium and trees with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard and mycologist Roy Halling.

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Fungus' Role in Human Temperature

Reporter Molly Webster and microbiologist Arturo Casadevall explain the role fungus may play in the behavior of reptilians and our body temperature of 98.6 Fahrenheit.

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RBG's Fight for Women

Producer Julia Longoria on how RBG, as a young ACLU lawyer, convinced an all-male Supreme Court to take discrimination against women seriously.

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Dr. Maurice Hillman, The Vaccine Man

Dr. Maurice Hillman has saved more lives than any other person in history and is responsible for more than 40 vaccines, including the Mumps vaccine, the second fastest vaccine ever developed. Radiolab hosts tell us how that happened.

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The Carlisle Indian School vs. Yale

Radiolab host Jad Abumrad on how, in 1892, American Football was used at The Carlisle Indian School as one of many ways to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream Euro-American culture.

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Hurricane Katrina

New York Times reporter, Sheri Fink, recounts how the medical staff at the New Orleans Memorial Medical Center had to struggle to keep patients alive after Hurricane Katrina killed all of the hospital’s generators.

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When Candid Camera Went Very Wrong

Candid Camera was a hit television show in the 60s and 70s, but in1969 a plane is hijacked and passengers mistakenly think it's a Candid Camera bit. Hear how it all went down on the podcast Radiolab.

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Curated byJorge Patino

7 CLIPS43 MINS

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Best of Radiolab

Why Trees and Fungus Need Each Other

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

Fungus' Role in Human Temperature

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

RBG's Fight for Women

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

Dr. Maurice Hillman, The Vaccine Man

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

The Carlisle Indian School vs. Yale

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

Hurricane Katrina

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

When Candid Camera Went Very Wrong

Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab)

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