Category: wnyc

The WNYC science show Radiolab, hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, has been justly acclaimed for its novel approaches to telling science stories. (Earlier this month, Abumrad was awarded a Macarthur Foundation "genius" award. It was welcome recognition, I'm sure, but how Macarthur thought it could fairly give the award to one of the two hosts is beyond me.) Radiolab doesn't always succeed--I lost interest in the latest podcast, Loops, when it lingered too long on a "horsey dance" that I couldn't see.

It was a surprise to me to discover, however, that one of Radiolab's stories had prompted a filmmaker to produce a short video. I got the heads-up from Robert...