Molly Webster

Senior Correspondent, Radiolab

Molly Webster appears in the following:

Elements

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Scientists took about 300 years to lay out the Periodic Table into neat rows and columns. In one hour, we’re going to mess it all up.  

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Stuck in a Student Loan Relief Loophole

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The federal student loan relief included in the COVID aid legislation leaves millions of Americans out — including WNYC's own Molly Webster.

Dispatch 14: Covid Crystal Ball

Friday, March 12, 2021

On today’s episode, doctors witness the worldwide pandemic playing out in a single human body.
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The Ceremony

Thursday, February 25, 2021

WNYC Studios
Today, paranoia sets in: we head to The Ceremony, the top-secret, three-day launch of a new currency, wizards and math included. Halfway through, something strange happens. 
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Dispatch 13: Challenge Trials

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Would you volunteer to get infected with COVID-19 to save someone’s life? Thousands of people already have.
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Insomnia Line

Friday, September 25, 2020

It’s the dead of night, you’re wide awake. And you’re not alone. So we put a phone number on twitter, and spent all night talking to the sleepless among us.
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Bringing Gamma Back, Again

Friday, September 11, 2020

What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes.
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Fungus Amungus

Friday, September 04, 2020

There’s a new bug popping up around the world. Or it might just be an old bug that finally met its moment.
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Invisible Allies

Thursday, July 30, 2020

From the brightest star, to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for covid-19.
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Dispatches from 1918

Friday, July 17, 2020

Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
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Slippery Mystery

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

From a sound rising from a marsh in South Carolina to the estuaries of New York to the darkest part of the ocean, we go in search of the limits of human knowledge.

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Dispatch 3: Shared Immunity

Friday, April 03, 2020

Could a century-old treatment become our best weapon in the fight against Covid-19?
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Goo And You

Thursday, March 26, 2020

WNYC
When producer Molly Webster peers inside a pupa, she witnesses some of the most complex biology happening on earth...and catches sight of an ancient question of change.

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Super Cool

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

WNYC Studios
Walter Murch (aka, the Godfather of The Godfather), joined by a team of scientists, leads us on what felt like the magical mystery tour of super cool science.

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Right to be Forgotten

Friday, August 23, 2019

Today we find ourselves in a room in Cleveland, Ohio, where a group of journalists are challenging the way we think about newspapers—and ourselves.
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Ice Cream Science, Online Language

Friday, July 26, 2019

Are you a fluent texter? We’ll talk with an internet linguist about how online communication has changed the way we write. Plus, the tasty science of your frozen desserts.

Anonymous Data, Birding Basics

Friday, July 26, 2019

A new study found that just 15 pieces of demographic data were enough to identify just about anyone. Plus, how beginner birders can find, identify, and appreciate them.

Science Friday 2019-07-26

Friday, July 26, 2019

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Gender Bias In Research Trials, Antarctica, Tornado Engineering

Friday, June 07, 2019

Why research trials should include both male and female lab rats. Plus, a trip to the longest ongoing climate record in Antarctica.

Science Friday 2019-06-07

Friday, June 07, 2019

A trip to the longest ongoing climate record in Antarctica, gender bias in research trials, and real-life quantum leaps.