It keeps me awake while I'm driving alone at night.

I love this show and the guys that make it brilliant week in and week out.

The sound editing is pretty distracting/annoying and it comes across as very self indulgent. I don't remember an episode where the sound edits had ANYTHING to do with moving the story forward. If you skip past the dreadful opening sequence (super irritating), and the unnerving overproduction, the stories can be pretty interesting.

Radio lab has taught me so much so listen to it

Thanks for explaining issues in-depth and in ways that are relatable, and making us care in the process.

On a consistent basis my mind has been shred to pieces by the story telling, sound editing, and subject matter which this podcast explores. They are the lone pioneers of this genre.

Hosts are very left wing. Podcast is made well but many times go off to the sos box. As soon as that happens I go to the next story and give it a 3. Has the potential of being top 5 if it can get more to the center. Good luck.

I would give 6 stars but the wait between episodes is ridiculous.

I love This podcast and it generally does a good job with most of its episodes, but they should really change host Robert krulwich. He diminishes interviews and conversations with poorly thought out questions and ideas. I don't think he adds anything useful to the show.

Love the variety of topics that they investigate. Always interested to discover whats coming next. They ask the questions that I am thinking, sometimes I think they read my mind as I am listening. They are funny, thought provoking, creative, interesting and enjoyable. I have listened to many of these with my youngest daughter, who is 11 and it have created a space for interesting conversations that would not have otherwise happened, if not for listening to this awesome podcast. My daughters favorite one is, " Colors " :) I love too many of them to pick a favorite,.

It's been a while since My personal beliefs have been so thoroughly torn apart. The most recent episode, focusing on revising the fault line, and the corresponding piece on blame, I listened to both out of curiosity, have made me seriously reevaluate most of my beliefs. Frankly, I should probably thank you for helping me move further from the sort of person who believes things for the sheer convenience those beliefs provide. On the flip side, I must admit that I sort of hate you. You have placed before me two courses of action. I could spend days, weeks, even the rest of my life attempting to consolidate my personal convictions and what I as a logical creature, and an individual who has personal experience with neurological disease, knows to be true. Or I can choose to ignore the inconsistencies I'm faced with, remain conscious of my own hypocrisy and evolve into the sort of person despise. Your program has arguably ruined my life.

Keep up the good work, I look forward to future episodes.

I love Radiolab! Each episode is a journey into the unknown, unexpected, and/or unappreciated.

Best podcasts. Very well produced.

The most incredible podcast ive ever listened to. if i could give it more stars i would. its the podcast that drew me into listening to many many more. forever thankful that i decided to listen!!

This is an amazing podcast, recommended for everyone who likes a wide range of interesting stories!!

Irresponsible

Always in the top five, often in the top three, and, sometimes, better than anything this world has ever seen before. A long-time listener of many podcasts, I was moved by this latest show "Revising the fault line" to chime-in. Free will is the issue. Free will if not meaningless is powerless. Often we see that a little bit of something is functionally equivalent to none at all; and such is definitely the case when it comes to free will.

Creative, inquisitive, and even occasionally provocative. I LOVE this podcast. Keep up the great work!

This podcast never fails to entertain you! It's always engaging and addicting!!

Radio Lab makes up for in content what it lacks in frequency. It truly leaves you wanting more

Hands down best podcast ever!

Thanks for displaying people with epilepsy in the worst possible light. This disease already has so much stigma that most people don't disclose that they have it. Then you do a show about a guy that has it that becomes obsessed with child porn? That really helps.

Podcasting as it should be. Research you can trust and smart reporting. Fantastic.

Asks questions and searches for answers about people, places, things that are unusual- leaving the listener to think about long after the show ends.

For years I have been listening to Radiolab on NPR. Recently my hours at work changed to where I started working on some Saturday afternoons which is when my affiliate played Radiolab! I am so thankful to still be able to keep up by listening to the pod cast on my commute to work. Jad and Robert please keep sharing these stories pertaining to the human condition, our world, our universe, from micro-to-macrocosm because it reminds me of how delicate and at the same time how strong we as people can be.

Hard to tell how much I enjoy almost every show these folks put out. I wish I could contribute more.

No one has done anything of this quality and no one probably ever will

Seriously. Give it a try.

Happy 15 years!

Great stories and a variety of topics to keep things new.

For years I've listened to Radiolab and have greatly enjoyed the stories. I've recommended this podcast to family and friends, and even provided financial contributions directly to Radiolab through WNYC. It seems like over the last year or so Radiolab has moved away from reporting about science and engaging story telling, and instead has become very politically themed. I've really lost interest more recently with a story about a transgender gondolier and two episodes on police violence. I've already discontinued my financial contributions and if Radiolab fails to find its original content within scientific based discussions and story telling, they'll lose me as a listener. And that makes me sad.

Fascinating and often mind-blowing content presented in an entertaining and engaging way. The fact is that straight up interviews tend to ramble and lose focus – Jad's impeccable editing and sound design keep the episodes on topic and engrossing. I find Robert to be a charming foil to Jad's contemporary sensibility. Radiolab is, hands down, my favorite podcast of all time.

The title speaks for itself.

The show was pretty heavily biased towards the far left (which is

Remember the older episodes? Science! Yeah! But now, it's nothing but politics, Transgender pronouns, and climate change. I'm so sick of this nonsense. Please bring back old radiolab! The "colors" episode is an easy 5 stars. The new stuff, 0 stars.

From the first moment of the first episode I heard, I have been engrossed by the auditory mindscapes explored by Jad and Robert. Each episode explores ideas from complex and varied perspectives. By the end, i find myself wondering and deeply curious.

I love RadioLab. Makes me wish I was on the show. Even when I don't think I'm interested in a topic I always end up enjoying the episode.

Best thing out there

Just wanted to write a quick review to state just how amazing this podcast is! Thanks for all the great content.

I am a over the road truck driver and can't get enough of this podcast. I enjoy it thoroughly.

Radiolab hooked me as a listener during my drive home everyday. Jad and Robert's presentation is unlike any other. Where have you gone? More please.

I love this podcast. I love how nicely each episode is edited and composed. Each pause, interview clip, and mucis clip is artistically edited together. I love how thought provoking or even controversial some of the topics are. Keep up the good work!

My daughter, a fellow science nerd, introduced me to the podcast. I've been hooked ever since I listened to an episode called THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' in which Usain Bolt runs on the planet Venus carrying a rooster.

Thought-provoking, always interesting - love this show.

I love the older radio lab episodes but lately the episodes are few and far between and aren't nearly as in depth. It also seems like they've gotten away from talking about science, which is disappointing.

It's nice to see how education can be provoking, curious, and entertaining (I have an affinity for Oxford commas)

Informative while fun

Great show!

I often listen to it with my adolescent daughters and we regularly have "driveway moments" where we have to sit in the car to finish up a segment. Always informative and entertaining!

Devoured the available episodes during my spring college semester. Recommend to young and old. Stimulating topics and interesting personalities come together to create one of my favorite podcasts.

Listen to this podcast. It is the best. I'm serious.

This used to be a brilliant podcast. It used to have a strong science focus and present complicated in such a unique and creative way so as to make science accessible and fun. It is no longer this. Now it's radio journalism at best. And in a world with too much news and not enough science, Radiolab, the former champion, is now just another mediocre This American Life wannabe.

The show has gone from an excellent and entertaining science show to a bunch of self-serious nonsense that totally doesn't fit the goofy editing techniques. Incredibly disappointing.

I happily and eagerly listened to Radiolab podcasts when they came out. They were often full of thoughtful discussion and interesting facts on subjects that ran the gamut. And then I listened to the episode entitled “Yellow Rain.” Since I was a subscriber, I heard the original episode, which RadioLab would go on to amend and issue a series of apologies for. By the episode’s end, I was made intensely uncomfortable by the hosts’ interrogation of the Hmong guests. I haven’t listened to it since, yet I still vividly recall that original, visceral emotional response whenever I hear anything related to the show or the hosts. (By the end, the writer who was translating for the victim was in tears.) I choose not to comment on any racism, overt or (more probably) otherwise, that permeated the interview. I want to believe the best in people, in their intentions. Actions speak louder than words, and no amount of verbiage could make up for what transpired in the original interview.

Was the final straw, and I unsubscribed. Also, as others have mentioned, what's with all the cutesy noises and the shorts, etc. I don't like being condescended to like I'm either stupid or 12 years old. Marketing does not equal dumbing down for "the masses."

I remember when I found this show. I was so excited. I loved the use of sound and the different angles they took on stories. Then I began to notice that when they did stories I already new something about while the facts were not wrong there was a lot of stretching of the truth. I still listened. I finally stopped listening when they started in with a lot of moralizing and began to leave a bad taste in my mouth, ultimatly detracting from the science.

I subscribed to this podcast for pretty much it's whole existence, and mostly because of it I continued my contributions to WNYC even though I'd moved out of NY. The editing, sound collaging and many of the topics the show took on were fresh and unique. But after a few years this began to get old and predictable, and the show became more interested in it's own voice than in the topics it was covering. It became a sort of parody: science lite with zippy audio. And it turned out the science lite was not even correct: see the "yellow rain" bungle and the Jonah Lerher debacle, which was handled very poorly and without any kind of contrition to listeners. So I removed Radiolab from my podcast IV drip and stopped giving money to WNYC. Six months on, I don't miss it.

The radiolab's belittling of the Hmong guests' yellow rain experience is bias at its worst. Made me unsubscribe frankly.

This podcast covers very interesting topics from a wonderfully accessible perspective and has access to noteworthy and talented guests. So what's the problem? It's done in this very specific style that I guess plenty of people like but makes me want to smash my radio. They edit and sample the audio like it was a rap song - if they're talking about money cash registers ring in the background, if they're saying facts came to light you hear a newsboy yelling 'extra extra' and people incessantly interrupt and finish each other's sentences. Like they ask a question and someone different, who hasn't been in the podcast at all up to that point, answers. It may be just a matter of style, and preference. To me though, the impression it gives is that if you have grown up with five windows open on your tablet and something else playing in your headphones while you text and occassionally interupt or join the conversations going on around you then this show will be a nice puzzle piece for the jagged edges of your addled brain. But if you have ever read a book, listened to someone, or done anything else that involves one single focus for more than three seconds, this show is like fingernails on a chalkboard. The other problem is a lot of these cutesy effects seem very contrived along the path to self-awarded prizes for cleverness. It's like it HAS to be different to prove it's smarter and better, and the shame is the content would do that on its own. Lots of people love it but to me it seems like the podcast squirrels would make if they could, and lived in Brooklyn and could sculpt their fur into ironic handlebar mustaches. It's the official hipster podcast, so I guess it all comes down to which side of that issue you're on.

The topics are very interesting, but I cannot stand to listen to this show with all those annoying sound effects, voice splicing, etc. The production sounds like it was made by a kid who just got a new sound effects computer program. Distracting and unnecessary. Perhaps Radiolab could release a transcript or dictation of the show so we can learn what is covered but not have to listen to the sound effects.

I used to love this show until they just started posting shorts, rebroadcasts of old shows and dumb music shows that no one wants to hear. They gained an audience talking about cutting-edge science in an hour-long format... So logically, their fans want a 20 minute remix show? Change formats and I'll happily 5-star it... Until then, its one-star.

This show is frustrating and disjointed. With an ADD "line by line" approach, it disorients you similarly to skipping through random radio stations covering a similar subject. That it's affiliated with NPR is even more surprising.

As someone who edits audio and video professionally, I understand that this form of presentation is far more difficult than a standard show. I have to give them props for that. But, necessary..?

Studying other reviews I realize that I am a practically solitary voice in the desert with this particular viewpoint. So, this makes me your grain of salt in a bowl of sugar.

The concept of Radio Lab is, as I understand it, exploring modern science and such, correct?

If I'm mistaken, can I really be blamed, because the way every show is done is terrible and sloppy. The hosts constantly talk over the interviewee, without completely muting them. Audio clips are spliced so that the hosts end up telling more of the story, with the interviewee saying one or two short words in there.

Radio Lab also assumes its listeners have terribly short memory (or they know that their current format is so confusing), because the hosts give constant reminders to the audience regarding details in the story (an example is during the episode "Lost and Found" where Emily's mom mentions Emily needing hearing aids, and not 2 minutes later, the host interrupts the story to remind the listener that Emily needs hearing aids).

All in all, it is a terrible show to listen to. Episodes become nothing more than a splice of random people saying different things that somehow form a sentence, and no interviewee can get a word in edgewise. As soon as they, do the hosts lower their audio levels and just summarize the interview!

Either let the interviewee say waht they need to, or summarize. Don't do both! I'm glad I unsubscribed.

While the content of Radio Lab is usally fairly interesting, the presentation is incredibly annoying. They almost never allow their interviewees to finish what they are saying, instead playing a few seconds of the interviewee speaking and then switching to Jad or Robert telling you what they said instead. For god's sake, JUST LET THEM TALK!

I just find it too affected. Though the information is valuable, the presentation is just....trying too hard. I want to love you, Radio Lab. But I can't.

Few podcasts flow like a song. Radio Lab floods the senses with rich description, in depth interviews, and seamless sound editing. It must be heard to be appreciated. Kudos to the producers!

p.s. Check out the one entitled "Where am I?" It will trip you out...

Radio Lab is so entertaining that I actually look forward to performing mindless, repetitive tasks in a (non-radio) lab, as long as I've remembered to bring my iPod to work. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich's investigations pull together fascinating stories, illuminating interviews, even poetry. It brings science out of the realm of technical jargon and weaves it into everyday human experiences: It'll move you as surely as the sappiest soap opera, but will leave you with much more to think about. As someone with a science background I find it refreshing, but it would be accessible and entertaining even if you'd never taken a science class in your life.

This is a consistently good podcast, I definitely recommend it.

Then you will love this science show for those of us who like to be talked down to. This (Boing!!) podcast (Grrr....) will interrupt itself (swish!!!!) every few seconds to keep the audience (*Zing*) interested. Others like me (*zzapp) just find it annoying.

More than any other reason, Robert Krulwich is why I stopped listening to NPR and took up podcasts years ago. He thinks he's cute: don't encourage him.

This is by far my favorite podcast, including the 4 podcasts I produce. The quality of the material is perfectly matched to the highest production values, with a great blend of humor and truth mixed in.

By using collage and digital sound mixing, these people think they've arrived at some slick new way of telling a story. Instead, it's just simply a series of tics that inhibit the transmission of any actual information. The more you listen, the more you're bored by their facile but repetitive approach.

Jad and Robert foray into great science topics with an intellectual eye and the curiosity of a child. They both have differing ways of looking at things and finding common ground comes about from the learning process. This show is about that process, and we get to learn along with them. Superbly constructed, every show is a story that develops from a question, and that story branches out into many avenues of thought. There are no wrong turns and around every corner there is more to explore. Sometimes you don't quite get a definite explanation, but that's just the state of the art as far as science is concerned, and its design to inspire us to continue that discovery process after the show is over. Thankfully all of the shows are still available from the subscription - I may just have to go listen to them again...

This podcast / radio show is absolutely brilliant and thought-provoking. I have yet to hear one 'uninteresting' hour, and I have downloaded each and every podcast to my IPOD and have spent many pleasurable hours listening to this 'ear candy' for the intellect. Try it -- you will absolutely love it!

This podcast is for your ears what high definition video is for your eyes. Radio Lab is a mix of magnificent sound editing that combines multiple elements into a beautiful flow of sound and stimulating information. I downloaded and listened to their entire collection and loved every single one. Since then, I have searched for a podcast that even comes close to the quality that Radio Lab contains but I have not succeeded.

Radiolab's intriguing topics and examples are already enough to catch the every-day listener's attention, but perhaps its greatest 'ear-candy' achievement is its fresh use of audio sound bridges and other unconventional (for radio) sound-editing techniques, which continue to progress as each new episode begins. More than any other public radio program, Radiolab accomplishes the difficult task of using experimental design while still keeping more than just the artists and college students entertained. It may start new trends and eventually set the pace for later radio shows competing for the attention of younger audiences who prefer the Internet or television for their sources of informative entertainment. Though its seemingly ‘mind-blowing’ discussions may be nothing new to the more erudite radio listeners, Radiolab exceeds more scholarly radio programs in its ability to cover a broad array of thought-provoking topics in a simple, understandable manner and remains relatively open-ended. Thus it stimulates interest to the general public on topics that wouldn’t normally be considered interesting. This in itself is a feat worthy of five stars. It’s a program whose episodes you may not want to delete after listening to them for the first time!

i love their show, the sound is like a third player in this conversation.

highly educational, and with personality, the best science radio show i've ever heard.

even people i know who don't retain info from solely audio input follow these guys as they expand and twist subjects, and watch as they return to shape, but not the same.

i learned of this show from ira glass and T.A.L.

i haved turned many on to this show, if you havn't.....you should.

The only downside is that it will ruin you for all other podcasts and radio shows! Seriously, this is genius at work. Do them a favor and make a pledge! I'd love to see this show turn in to a weekly feature like This American Life, which this show puts to shame.

The program is primarily a science program, and extremely well done. The hosts convey a child-like wonder, but it does not seem contrived or cheesy. I am still awed after a couple of listens to the "memory" show. Why this program isn't on nation-wide programming is beyond me. It's easily one of the best shows I've heard (or seen). Ever.

It's like This American LIfe, but with science. Some shows leave you convinced that the Meaning of Life will be revealed by the time the program is over. Every episode I've heard contains at least one jaw-dropping moment of profound beauty or truth or knowledge.

Listen to the program with headphones, in a darkened room. Drift away for an hour. It's an amazing trip.

Having been a fairly devoted NPR listener for years I feel I can safely say this is one of the very best programs to come across their airwaves. It combines the intellect and curiosity of NPR's science and news shows with the whimsy and playfullness of This American Life for a completely unique experience that draws you in as it teaches. Yet another success story from the minds of public radio!

After listening to an episode you feel like you were blind and can now see. They take everyday functions and things we take for granted and seem monotonous and give it a whole new perspective. You do not really have sight until they explain the complexeties of what goes into it.

I am serious with my title and actually hope they will cover boredom, because I know their explanation and research will make my life better because I understand myself and appreciate me more after listening to them.

Cheers to you!

A case of how the hosts and excessive editing can get in the way of the material. The stories are compelling: "Zoos" was a fine example. But the needless audio effects and the incessant banter of the hosts (as if Click and Clack took over This American Life-- I shudder to think) takes away from the experience. Its just not worth having to wade through the dumbed-down presentation to get to the nuggets of good content.

This podcast is one of the most intellectual, spiritual and philosophical segments of audio out there. It's something for everyone, and everything for each. They way they tie the facts and intellect to the whole of a person and life is great work. You will be completely absorbed when listening to it, so take especial care if listening while driving.

The hosts take you on a journey, detouring here and there with dissonant vibrations, echoing back to the central theme. The show will draw you in and open your mind. Great fun!

The host banter is great, the ideas are amazing and thorough, but what puts this show over the top is the production and editing. I honestly haven't heard anything like it. Bravo WNYC!

This is without a doubt my favorite podcast. I listen to this often on my commute home from work, and the many intriguing topics that presented are a great way to wind down and stretch my mind a bit. I often find myself sitting in my car for 15 mintues after I get home just so I can finish listening. I sometimes cant tear myself away from it! What really needs to be mentioned is the incredible production quality. The sound effects, editing, sound levels, etc... are all perfect. These guys do an amazing job. I've recommended this podcast to everyone I know.

the integration of science, art and sociology is brilliant...i can listen to the programs over and over and never get tired of them. well done jad and robert...bring us a new season soon.

I'm admittedly an NPR junkie. I almost didn't get an iPod for want of a radio tuner... Radio Lab is just about the absolute pinnacle of what Public Radio can hope to achieve. It's up there with This American Life, A Prairie Home Companion, and Car Talk as radio shows that, not only are great to listen to live, but to go back to again over the years. The only problem with this show is that there is not more. Please donate with the request that they make more Radio Lab.

Without a doubt the absolute best podcast out there. I find myself checking back all too frequently to see if another release is available. Thought provoking, and perpetually interesting. Jad and Robert work together marvelously and their interviews are wonderful. Do not pass this up!

I'm not kidding. I am obsessed with this show. What others have said - that it's the best show on radio, that this is what radio should be, that they come home hitting refresh repeatedly on iTunes to see if new episodes are out - is absolutely the truth.

This show is at once educational, stimulating, and entertaining. The editing may be one of my favorite things about it, actually. It definitely keeps you on your toes, and it's most definitely not one of those podcasts you sit through for an hour and suddenly realize you haven't been paying attention to any of it.

Jad and Robert make one of the greatest teams radio has ever seen. This is one of the few podcasts that deserve repeated listens. Informative, innovative, artistic, scientific ... what else can one say? Radio at its greatest.

Sort of science-y but presented in a really unique way. Popular science and philsophy presented by two really interested non-experts. Shows with multiple segments grouped around a interesting, non-fiction theme. The production is quite quirky; outtakes and distored clips mixed in just enough for fun but not too much to detract from the real content. I wish more podcasts were like this.

the host's voices are beautiful, especially Jad Abumrad's voice. the production is so smooth, the transitions are effortless, and the entire episodes have such amazing flow you'll find yourself just slipping away from w/e you're doing so your brain can focus on what they're talking about; speaking of which, the subject matter of each program is always interesting/informative/infotaining.this podcast pretty much just rules all around!

Please, please make more episodes! This, without exaggeration, is the best radio show ever made. I'd be willing to pay a handsome sum for it.

RadioLab gets funding from NPR, and I wish NPR would support more creative and original programming like this. Each episode is very thought-provoking and surprising. My only complaints are that Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich's interactions are sometimes too obviously scripted but made to sound spontaneous, and that the sound editing sometimes can be distracting (ex: often Abumbrad or Krulwich will introduce someone after they introduced themselves--"Hi, my name is Jane Doe" "This is Jane Doe, a professor...") in trying to be too clever.

The only thing this series is lacking is more episodes -- i can't wait until next season!

This is great! Whenever I open iTunes, I'm hoping to see a new episode. Having left New York years ago, WYNC is one of the things I've really missed. Being able to hear programs like this is what Podcasting is for. Jad and Robert are great hosts--they facilitate the show without becoming the show. Can't wait for mor episodes!

Exceptional radio on many levels. Deep, insightful and always entertaining. I can't get enough. Please Please PODCAST THE ARCHIVES.

I've been listening to Radiolab for over a year, and even requested they add it to their offering of podcasts. It's so exciting to see it finally available. Wonderful show for listening while driving, and with podcasts now I can catch up on all the missed episodes! Radiolab is like that book you can't put down, turning page after page, it's almost disappointing when you get to the end of an episode.

This podcast stands out as pretty much constantly astounding. As someone who writes about science for a living, the 'scientific' concepts here are rendered in an enviably fascinating and pretty much idiot-proof way. It's a testament to the skills of the hosts in their use of the audio format that they can cruise through really complex stuff and give the ordinary listener entertainment and learning in a single scoop. This is the best. Now if they would only get season one on itunes....

Thank you WNYC and all who made this show available as a FREE podcast. Late for work, late for school my family can't t get enough of such a well thought out creative radio delight. My mind is till tingling with shock and awe.

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich captivate the imagination with the best original topics and discussion in a the most fun sounding experience found on radio or online. From broad topics like "outer space" to "understanding basic Music language", each show takes the listener on an exploration into the overlooked of the everyday. This is a really great show that is extremely well produced.