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:

The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen

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 ...

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The Bullseye: Treasure Hunt to Recursive Islands

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...

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An Ocean in Space

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...

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The Sea Troll: An Everlasting Shark?

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 ...

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The Crystal Ball: Giant Honeybees Who Predict the Future

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...

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The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic

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 ...

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The Stumpisode: The Wild World of Tree Stumps!

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...

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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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Terrestrials: A New Kids Show from Radiolab

Thursday, September 15, 2022

WNYC Studios
An introduction to your friendly neighborhood nature show from Radiolab for Kids.