Lulu Miller

Lulu Miller is a Peabody Award-winning science journalist. She is the Co-Host of Radiolab (with the wonderful Latif Nasser). And she is the Host/Creator of Radiolab’s podcast for kids, Terrestrials, all about nature. She was Radiolab’s first producer 20 years ago, and it is a thrill to return as Co-Host to the world’s best team.  

Lulu Miller is a Peabody Award-winning science journalist. She is the Co-Host of Radiolab (with the wonderful Latif Nasser). And she is the Host/Creator of Radiolab’s podcast for kids, Terrestrials, all about nature. She was Radiolab’s first producer 20 years ago, and it is a thrill to return as Co-Host to the world’s best team.  

Her book, Why Fish Don’t Exist, is an international bestseller, translated into 11 languages. It was chosen as a Best Book by The Smithsonian, NPR, The Chicago Tribune, Brainpickings, The Washington Post and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Book Prize. Her written work has been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, VQR and beyond. She has also won honors from The National Academy of Sciences, the Associated Press, the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and most recently an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Swarthmore College. 

She reports on a range of scientific topics with a special interest in disability, mental illness, and ecology. Her written work has been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, VQR and beyond. She serves as a Contributing Advisor to nature magazine Orion and she was the co-founder of NPR’s Invisibilia—a radio show about psychology, emotion, and human behavior. She recently published her debut children’s book, Trucky Roads, about trucks and, you’ll never guess this… roads. She lives in the Chicago area with her wife and two sons.

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Lulu Miller appears in the following:

Killer Empathy

Friday, April 04, 2025

Looking to bugs to make sense of senseless violence.

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The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

How discovering lichen quietly changed the course of a life. 

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The Bullseye: Treasure Hunt to Recursive Islands

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Join us on a wild recursive island adventure. 

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An Ocean in Space

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

A poem to represent all of humanity. 

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The Sea Troll: An Everlasting Shark?

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

How to survive for centuries.

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The Crystal Ball: Giant Honeybees Who Predict the Future

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

How to save all the honey bees in the world.

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The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

We learn about the arctic ground squirrel — the only mammal that can survive in a braindead state for weeks.

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The Stumpisode: The Wild World of Tree Stumps!

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

How dead trees sustain the living.

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Lucy

Friday, May 17, 2024

Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. This episode, a mashup of content stretching all the way back to 2010, asks the question ...

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Numbers

Friday, December 22, 2023

Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.
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Radiolab’s Lulu Miller Steals All Her Best Ideas From Her Kids

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Terrestrials host and creator Lulu Miller talks about becoming a parent and being inspired by her kids’ curiosities. Plus, clips from Terrestrials’ “The Water Walker.”

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Talking Terrestrials: Radiolab's New Podcast for Kids

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Lulu Miller talks about Terrestrials, Radiolab's new podcast for kids, which — as the website puts it — 'explores the strangeness that exists right here on Earth.'

The Hybrid: A Miracle Mule

Thursday, October 27, 2022

WNYC Studios
A fantastical mix of two beasts comes together, thrives, and does something scientists thought it could never do

The Water Walker: One Surfer’s Epic Escape

Thursday, October 20, 2022

WNYC Studios
A muscly earthling figures out a way to stand on the waves.

The Unimaginable: How Gravitational Waves (Literally) Rocked Our World

Thursday, October 13, 2022

WNYC Studios
An invisible entity journeys to Planet Earth and literally rocks our world.

The Trio: A Bald Eagle Love Story

Thursday, October 06, 2022

WNYC Studios
Look up in the sky! It is something that scientists thought could never happen.

The Guardian: Tsetse Fly Defenders

Thursday, September 29, 2022

WNYC Studios
A winged creature frightens countless villagers but may be a kind of protector.

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Terrestrials: The Mastermind

Friday, September 23, 2022

Lulu Miller, intrepid host and fearless mother of two boys, went off and put together a little something for kids. All kids: hers, yours, and the one still living inside us all.
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The Mastermind: An Octopus Heist

Thursday, September 22, 2022

WNYC Studios
A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors.

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Radiolab for Kids Presents: 'Terrestrials'

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

We preview the Radiolab for Kids podcast, 'Terrestrials'.

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