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Plotting a Pain Scale

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Pain is a fundamental part of life, and often a very lonely part. Doctors want to understand their patients' pain, and we all want to understand the suffering of our loved ones. But pinning down another person's hurt is a slippery business. Is your relentless lower back pain more or ...

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Sink Your Teeth Into Our Rabies Quiz

Thursday, August 22, 2013

By Derrick Clements

Did you know the phrase "hair of the dog" comes from an old remedy for rabies? Take our rabies quiz for more factoids on the deadly virus.

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Main illustration from the short story 'The Opener of the Way.' Internal Illustration from the pulp magazine Weird Tales (October 1936, vol. 28, no. 3, page 277).

Rodney Versus Death

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

In the fall of 2004, Jeanna Giese checked into the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin with a set of puzzling symptoms ...

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Ally's Choice

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

The complex racial history of two towns in Ohio leads members of the same family to disagree strongly about whether they're black or white.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Thursday, May 30, 2013

This case puts one little girl at the center of a storm of legal intricacies, Native American tribal culture, and heart-wrenching personal stakes.

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Brooklyn Philharmonic musicians pose with Alan Pierson, Jad Abumrad, and Tim Howard

Speedthoven

Thursday, February 21, 2013

By Brenna Farrell / Tim Howard

One blizzardy February afternoon, Jad and a handful of Radiolabbers headed to midtown Manhattan to meet a fleet-fingered string quartet.

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Mr. Bliss

Monday, December 17, 2012

Could a better language bring world peace?

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Inside "Ouch!"

Monday, August 27, 2012

Pain is a fundamental part of life, but pinning down another person's hurt is a slippery business.

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Why Isn't the Sky Blue?

Monday, May 21, 2012

What is the color of honey, and "faces pale with fear"?

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Yellow pigments, including 'gummi gutti' or gamboge

The Perfect Yellow

Monday, May 21, 2012

Jad and Robert wonder if maybe they could add to their color palette.

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fistulated cow, rutgers, tim howard, barry jesse

Into the Abyss

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

By Tim Howard

For our Guts episode, producer Tim Howard bravely headed to Rutgers University to see, feel...and smell...a fistulated cow firsthand. Check out his pictures here.

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Escape Artists

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

By Tim Howard

Tim Howard shares a couple of great getaway stories (including one that didn't actually work) that caught our attention while we were putting together our Escape! show.

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Radiolab Reads: Innocent When You Dream

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

By Tim Howard

Lately the only song I want to hear is "I Don't Want To Grow Up" by Tom Waits.

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Radiolab Reads: Cryptonomicon

Monday, July 11, 2011

By Tim Howard

Cryptonomicon - what a beast! This is a novel that's hard to actually describe but a joy to read.

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Pigeon Wars

Friday, January 28, 2011

By Tim Howard

While I was working on the pigeon piece for the Lost & Found show, fellow Radiolab contributor Douglas Q. Smith took me out to Bushwick to meet George Martin, a man who flies pigeons from a factory roof. This is brief look into his world.

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