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:
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Artist Ashley Eliza Williams was so shy growing up that they found it hard to speak to people. Instead, they withdrew from the world of humans and found comfort in the forest, where ...
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Have you ever seen an island on a lake? On an island? On a lake? On another island? Josh Calder has. Working in a dusty room of a library, he first saw one on a map, and has been fasc...
Thursday, October 17, 2024
BLAST OFF! NASA just sent a spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, and on the side of that spacecraft, they included a poem. Not just any poem — a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ad...
Thursday, October 10, 2024
The Greenland shark is ugly. Its eyes look cloudy and dead. Its snout and fins are stubby. Its meat is poisonous. And that may be part of why most people have overlooked these sharks ...
Thursday, October 03, 2024
The honeybee. The ever-important pollinator for our plants is disappearing. Some call it the silence of the bees, others call it colony collapse disorder. Dr. Sammy Ramsey, our offici...
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Middle schooler, Aanya, has an up-close encounter with a squirrel in the school yard, which leads her to an obsession with one of North America's most common critters. She tells host ...
Thursday, September 19, 2024
As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. From stumps to snags, deadwood provides habitat for rodents, falcons, insects, and even humans! Stumps hold toget...
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 ...
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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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.”
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.'
Thursday, October 27, 2022
A fantastical mix of two beasts comes together, thrives, and does something scientists thought it could never do
Thursday, October 20, 2022
A muscly earthling figures out a way to stand on the waves.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
An invisible entity journeys to Planet Earth and literally rocks our world.
Thursday, October 06, 2022
Look up in the sky! It is something that scientists thought could never happen.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
A winged creature frightens countless villagers but may be a kind of protector.
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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Thursday, September 22, 2022
A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
We preview the Radiolab for Kids podcast, 'Terrestrials'.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
An introduction to your friendly neighborhood nature show from Radiolab for Kids.