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Krulwich Wonders: Two Plates. One Herbivore. One Omnivore. Which Is Which?
One night, somewhere, they won't say where, but I'm guessing it was a Manhattan loft with a big kitchen, a food anarchist named Mike Lee got 40 people to perform a daring experiment in food...
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Back in 2009, Jon Reiner was feeling as healthy as he ever had. Jon has Crohn's disease--an autoimmune condition that affects his gastrointestinal system--but it had been in remission for a year. He...
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Mr. Bliss
First: a perfect moment. On day 86 of a 3-month trek to and from the South Pole, adventurer Aleksander Gamme discovered something he'd stashed under the ice at the start of his trip. He wasn't...
View ArticleThe Man Behind the Maneuver
In the 1970s, choking became national news: thousands were choking to death, leading to more accidental deaths than guns. Nobody knew what to do. Until a man named Henry Heimlich came along with a big...
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Have You Heimliched?
Have you been saved, or saved someone else, from choking using the Heimlich maneuver? Let us know. And be sure to listen to The Man Behind the Maneuver, our short about the man who invented the move....
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An Illustrated History of Heimlich
Inspired by our short The Man Behind the Maneuver, an infographic to map some key moments in the history of the Heimlich maneuver. Plus a bunch of Heimliched celebrities.Click to ZOOM
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The Dinner Buzz
What seasonal delicacy will be in abundance this spring? The Brood II periodical cicada. For a short time after the little critters emerge along the Eastern Seaboard, they'll be ripe for the...
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Do Bugs Make Your Mouth Water?
Sizzling Chili Cicadas? How About Some Cicada-Rhubarb Pie? Bugs will be bursting from the ground in patches along the East Coast this spring when the 17-year Brood II cicadas emerge. Will you sink your...
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Watts For Lunch? (Or Why Humans Are Like Light Bulbs)
There's a new lunch place down the block, so like you do when the menu looks interesting, I walked in and ordered something mysterious, which for me was the "Red Lentil and Edamame Salad," mostly...
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In the 1970s, choking became national news: thousands were choking to death, leading to more accidental deaths than guns. Nobody knew what to do. Until a man named Henry Heimlich came along with a big...
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What Happened On Easter Island — A New (Even Scarier) Scenario
We all know the story, or think we do.Let me tell it the old way, then the new way. See which worries you most. Robert Krulwich/NPR First version: Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land...
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Finding Grandpa On My Dinner Plate (Part 2)
I could tell you stories about guys who sit down to lobster dinners (there are several; I've even done one myself ) and the waiter says, "May we suggest ..." and he shows the man a very, very large...
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Go Where Raisins Swell Into Grapes, And Lemons Light The Sky
There's a book by the novelist China Mieville that describes two cities plopped one on top of the other. One is large-scale, the other smaller-scale, and while they live in entangled proximity, both...
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How Chocolate Might Save The Planet
When you unwrap it, break off a piece and stick it in your mouth, it doesn't remind you of the pyramids, a suspension bridge or a skyscraper; but chocolate, says materials scientist Mark Miodownik, "is...
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Logic and emotion aren't the only forces that guide our decisions. This hour of Radiolab, we turn up the volume on the voices in our heads, and try to make sense of the babble. Forget free will, some...
View ArticleIs Free Will Really Free?
It's scary to think that choice might just be an illusion. Perhaps we are not so in control as we would like to be. In a conversation at the 92nd St Y, Malcolm Gladwell talks to Robert about the common...
View ArticleYou Are What Your Grandpa Eats
Lars Olov Bygren, a professor at Umeå University in Sweden, grew up in a remote village north of the Arctic Circle. It wasn't an easy place to be a kid, and he has cold, hard data to back him up: book...
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