Radiolab

We went back to your place and listened to the White Album. We ordered in. We fought and made up and got good jobs and got married and bought an apartment and worked out and ate more and talked less.

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—	Have you read Jenny Hollowell’s wonderful short story “A History of Everything, Including You”? Why not let Jenny read it to you?

CICADAS! You may have heard that they are loud. Alert Radiolab listeners Joe, Caroline, Annie and Buddy sent us this adorable video demonstrating exactly how loud.

Joe and his family are in the Hudson Valley. Have cicadas hit your neighborhood yet? Report your sightings here.

Somebody came driving in, social workers, and they got out of the car, and I told my brothers and sisters go hide, and they had to drag us out from underneath the bed.

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—	Have you heard our latest podcast? The troubled history & uncertain future of Native American adoption.

Nobody connected the dots. Everybody thought that it was their own personal tragedy. Nobody realized that this was a pattern and a practice that was decimating these tribes.

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—	Our new Radiolab short explores the history (and future) of Native American adoption.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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—	Ernest Hemingway Truer words were never spoken. If you’re a sleep enthusiast like Ernest, you can learn more about it in our sleep episode.

A peek behind the scenes at Radiolab.

If you’ve been thinking about donating to the show, now is a great time to do it: we have a matching grant, which means, basically, your donation counts for twice as many bucks. Here’s where you can donate and make us very happy radio producers.

What’s so interesting about the cicada sounds is, when you just hear it for the first time you just hear white noise—you just hear ssshhhhhhh. Just noise. But when you know what’s going on, you can hear the different parts of the orchestra.

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—	David Rothenberg teaches you to hear all the parts of the cicada sex orchestra in our brand-new short.

She had all the parts. These long fingers and long feet, delicate little nose, and she had hair and fingernails and eyebrows and, you know, all the things that they’re supposed to have. But she was translucent…You could just see right through her. You could see all the veins running under her skin, you could see her heart thumping in her chest.

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—	The wonderful Kelly Benham French talks about giving birth to a preemie on our new episode, 23 Weeks 6 Days.

After ‘Friday Night Lights’ ended, my wife and I were adrift. I still talk to Coach Taylor and Tami in my head. I think she does, too.

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—	Jad talks to The New York Times about stuff he likes. (For the record, this is 100% true. Jad references Friday Night Lights around the office all the time.)

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I was really upset and I was going to draw some stuff about how upset I was, but then I started listening this wonderful Radiolab reading from Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics—a story which is both beautiful and personally nostalgic—and created some much calmer sketches. Okay. Deep breaths.

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Happy to help!

Jad turns 40, with many balloons and hugs from his Executive Producer (and longtime friend) Ellen Horne, and delightful photos from our intrepid intern Megan Tan.

It’s a nice place to work, Radiolab is.

Now, you will ask me what in the world we went up on the Moon for; I’ll explain it to you. We went to collect the milk, with a big spoon and a bucket.

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—	In our new short, Liev Schreiber reads Italo Calvino’s beautiful, funny story “The Distance of the Moon”