Radiolab

Another meditation on what happens after the moment of death, this time as Shakespeare envisions it. 

We continue our meditations on death with a reading from poet and writer, Mark Doty. This is an excerpt from Doty's 1996 memoir Heaven's Coast.

This week on the podcast, we continue our meditations on death (our After Life episode had eleven). We'll throw a new one at you each day, all week long, culminating in a very special treat at the end of the week.

Eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die.

Robert challenges Richard Dawkins on a number of sticky spots on the subject of biological evolution.

We follow up on our Stochasticity show with an exploration pf whether the little choices we make every day are predictable or not.

How stochasticity -- a wonderfully smarty-pants word for randomness -- drives our lives, and the patterns we see around us.

A look at four unconventional ways to stay alive.

We open up an age old can of worms at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space: which medium is superior -- television or radio? Jad and Robert face off, with This American Life's Ira Glass as referee.  

Sometimes on the podcast, we like to talk about musicians and the music they make. Today we introduce you to Juana Molina. Last season we used some of her of music in the breaks for the Sperm show.

Radiolab examines the connection between your brain and your body -- and what happens when it breaks.

There are some questions that just don't give in to experiments and data. We take on one of those questions.

Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how could you make another one?

Psychologist Walter Mischel explains how one little test involving a marshmallow might tell you a frightening amount about what kind of person you are.

Radiolab throws a birthday party for Charles Darwin! Robert Krulwich invites three experts to toast the birthday boy.