Beyond Time
This hour, Radiolab goes to the front lines with men and women who are battling against time -- or at least the common-sense view of time.Einstein's Theory of Relativity may have implications on the...
View ArticleMojave Road
Finally, producer Ben Adair takes us on a tour of the Mojave desert and, in the process, confronts his own brevity in the face of geological time.
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Krulwich Wonders: Obama's Secret Weapon in the South - Small, Dead, but Still...
Look at this map, and notice that deep, deep in the Republican South, there's a thin blue band stretching from the Carolinas through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. These are the counties that went...
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Krulwich Wonders: Strange-Looking Tombstone Tells Of Moving Ice, Ancient...
With glaciers melting and crumbling all over the world, let me tell you the story of the man who first imagined ice ages, the man buried under this stone in Cambridge, Mass. It's an odd gravestone; a...
View ArticleAre You Sure?
This hour, we walk the tightrope between doubt and certainty, and wonder if there's a way to make yourself at home on that razor's edge between definitely...and not so sure.We meet a geologist whose...
View ArticleRocked by Doubt
In 2010, Lulu Miller was biking across the country, taking some time to clear her head for a new phase of life. And somewhere in Nevada, she ran into a guy named Jeff Viniard who was on a similar...
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A Most Delightful Map
Think about this: You wake up in New York City, decide to go for a stroll, head east after breakfast, and a short time later, still on foot, you find yourself in Morocco. Three hundred million years...
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Is Planet Earth Under New Management?
A hundred million years from now, when we're all dead and gone, a team of geologists will be digging in a field somewhere ...Robert Krulwich/NPR ... and they will discover, buried in the rocks below, a...
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