There are many ways to communicate with the dead, we examine one of them. A footnote to our episode Haunted.
There are many ways to communicate with the dead, we examine one of them. A footnote to our episode Haunted.
How Radiolab took 7 classic songs and transposed them, then translated them into 7 foreign languages.
This week: the inhumanly fast world of high-speed trading, an excruciatingly slow experiment, and a physicist plays Zeus. Check out our station map to find out where you can hear Speed on the air near you.
In our Speed episode, we learn just how outdated our idea of the stock market is. Producer Andy Mills helps us picture the modern-day market with some beautiful depictions of high frequency trading, from technicolor graphs to frantic piano riffs.
SPOILER ALERT: if you haven’t listened to our Speed show yet, go do that right now, before you read any further. Then, take a look at some mind-bending behind-the-scenes images from the physicist in our "Master of the Universe" story.