Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials

By WNYC

Kids & Family

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A show where we uncover the strangeness right here on Earth

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Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials episodes:

01.11.2023
Introducing: NPR's Life Kit
NPR’s Life Kit explains a free, simple tool for your parenting toolbox. Called 'special time,' the strategy is widely recommended by children's health professionals to help reduce behavioral issues in young children. Here's a guide on how to do it...
11.24.2022
Introducing: Flip and Mozi's Guide to How to be an Earthling
Mozi is about to turn... 900 years old, and he's having a tough time with it! So, Flip introduces him to some of the oldest earthlings around, the Bowhead Whales! Featuring new songs from the Pop Ups like "How You...
11.10.2022
Introducing: Brains On
Today’s episode is all about one of the most dynamite dinosaurs, the Brontosaurus! This long-necked icon has been featured in books, cartoons, movies, and even logos. But did the Brontosaurus really exist in the first place? We’ll dig into that...
10.27.2022
Terrestrials: The Hybrid
In the game of life, every species is like an action figure. You got your dogs and your dung beetles, your bald eagles and your blueberries. And for a long time scientists believed it was pretty much impossible for those...
10.20.2022
Terrestrials: The Water Walker
The ocean can be a scary place: the waves are so strong, the water so deep. But surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo tells the story of an earthling who figured out how to walk on water and literally defy the...
10.13.2022
Terrestrials: The Unimaginable
Over a billion lightyears ago, in the darkness of outer space, a collision of black holes sent out a fleet of invisible waves that were headed right toward planet Earth. The waves were so powerful they could ripple spacetime but...
10.06.2022
Terrestrials: The Trio
High above the banks of the Mississippi river, a nest holds the secret life of one of America’s most patriotic creatures. Their story puzzles scientists, reinforces indigenous wisdom, and wows audiences, all thanks to a park ranger named Ed, and...
09.29.2022
Terrestrials: The Guardian
A singing entomologist, Dr. Sammy Ramsey, and a biologist with a knack for inventing things, Dr. Paul Mireji, tell us about one of the most fearsome animals on our planet. If you want a SPOILER of what it is, read on:...
09.22.2022
Terrestrials: The Mastermind
A color-changing creature many people assumed to be brainless outsmarts his human captors. SPOILER: The creature is an octopus! Author Sy Montgomery tells the story of one octopus named Inky who makes us question who we consider intelligent (and kissable)...
09.15.2022
Terrestrials: A New Kids Show from Radiolab
Radiolab for Kids and WNYC Studios present Terrestrials, a six-episode miniseries hosted by Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab). Each episode introduces you to a creature or earthly phenomenon that will defy your expectations of how nature is supposed to work. Along the way,...
06.29.2022
Forests on Forests
Hey Radiolab for Kids listeners! We’re back after a long hiatus with one of our favorite episodes from earlier this year. And a surprise... We're cooking up something new and looking to get your feedback. Join our Radiolab for Kids listener panel...
05.15.2020
Octomom
In 2007, Bruce Robison’s robot submarine stumbled across an octopus settling in to brood her eggs. It seemed like a small moment. But as he went back to visit her, month after month, what began as a simple act of...
03.27.2020
Behaves So Strangely
We'll kick off the chase with Diana Deutsch, a professor specializing in the Psychology of Music, who could extract song out even the most monotonous of drones. (Think Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller. Bueller.)For those of us who have trouble...
03.27.2020
Never Quite Now
We kick things off with one of the longest-running experiments in the world. As Joshua Foer explains, the Pitch Drop Experiment is so slow, you can watch it for hours (check out the live cam) and not detect the slightest movement. But...
03.27.2020
The Distance of the Moon
According to one theory, the moon formed when a Mars-sized chunk of rock collided with Earth. After the moon coalesced out of the debris from that impact, it was much closer to Earth than it is today. This idea is...
03.27.2020
Dark Side of the Earth
Back in 2012, when we were putting together our live show In the Dark, Jad and Robert called up Dave Wolf to ask him if he had any stories about darkness. And boy, did he. Dave told us two stories that...
03.27.2020
Poop Train
This all started back when we were working on our Guts show, and author Frederick Kaufman told us about getting sucked in to the mystery of what happens to poop in New York City. Robert and producer Pat Walters decided to take...
03.27.2020
The Septendecennial Sing-Along
While most of us hear a wall of white noise, squeaks, and squawks....David Rothenberg hears a symphony. He's trained his ear to listen for the music of animals, and he's always looking for chances to join in, with everything from...
03.27.2020
For the Love of Numbers
In this short, writer Alex Bellos tells Robert how, from the very first time humans ever used numbers, we couldn’t help but give them human-like qualities. From favorite numbers to numbers that we’re suspicious of, from 501 jeans to Oxy...
03.27.2020
For the Birds
When the conservationists showed up at Clarice Gibbs’ door and asked her to take down her bird feeders down for the sake of an endangered bird, she said no. Everybody just figured she was a crazy bird lady. But writer...
03.26.2020
Goo And You
On a quiet, warm summer day, somewhere in the soil beneath your feet, tucked into a nearby plant, or at the edges of a pond, a tiny little cataclysm is happening: an insect is transforming, undergoing metamorphosis. The chrysalis is...
03.24.2020
Space
We begin with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, with a story about the Voyager expedition, true love, and a golden record that travels through space. And astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson explains the Coepernican Principle, and just how insignificant...
03.24.2020
Zoos
What's with our need to get close to "wildness"? We examine where we stand in this paradox--starting with the Romans, and ending in the wilds of Belize, staring into the eyes of a wild jaguar. --- We're cooking up something new and...
03.24.2020
Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom
When Ian Frazier was a kid, he (like most 6-year-olds) mastered the art of tic tac toe. Pretty soon, every match was a draw, and the game lost its magic. Then one day, many years later, he met a 6-year-old named...
03.24.2020
The Times They Are a-Changin'
With the help of paleontologist Neil Shubin, reporter Emily Graslie and the Field Museum's Paul Mayer we discover that our world is full of ancient coral calendars. Each one of these sea skeletons reveals that once upon a very-long-time-ago, years...
03.24.2020
A War We Need
Reporter Ari Daniel visits with Willie Wilson, who studies phytoplankton--aka microscopic plant-like creatures--at Bigelow Laboratory in Maine. There's a war in Willie's test tubes. A certain sort of phytoplankton known as coccolithophores are engaged in a surprisingly complicated arms race with deadly viruses....
03.24.2020
Super Cool
When we started reporting a fantastic, surreal story about one very cold night, more than 70 years ago, in northern Russia, we had no idea we'd end up thinking about cosmology. Or dropping toy horses in test tubes of water....
03.24.2020
Animal Minds
When we gaze into the eyes of a wild animal, or even a beloved pet, can we ever really know what they might be thinking? Is it naive to assume they're experiencing something close to human emotions? Or is it...
03.24.2020
Bite the Dust
Whatever your feelings on Disco, it's hard not to root for the resurgence of one particular track that started taking CPR classes by storm. Producer Ellen Horne explains how one aptly named 70s mega-hit could help you save someone's life. Then,...
03.24.2020
Parasites
Could parasites be the shadowy hands that pull the strings of life? We explore nature's moochers, with tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe). And we examine claims that some parasites may actually be good...
03.24.2020
Mischel’s Marshmallows
Psychologist Walter Mischel explains how one little test involving a marshmallow might tell you a frightening amount about what kind of person you are. And Radiolab favorite Jonah Lehrer helps us make sense of the results. This one's all about our will power (or...
03.24.2020
Everything and Nothing
Math can get pretty loopy, at least when we try to explain it. But according to author Alex Bellos, the most straightforward mathematical concept might be the loopiest. Then producer Mark Philips introduces us to William Basinski, a composer who loops analog tape to...
03.24.2020
Loop the Loop
For most of human history, flight was an impossible dream. In this short, the dizzying rise and fall of a pilot whose aeronautic feats changed aviation forever and turned chancy stunts into acrobatic mastery. Lincoln Beachey is one of the most...
03.24.2020
KILL EM' ALL
They buzz. They bite. And they have killed more people than cancer, war, or heart disease. Here’s the question: If you could wipe mosquitoes off the face of the planet, would you? Ever since there have been humans, mosquitoes have been...
03.24.2020
Is Laughter Just A Human Thing?
Aristotle thought that laughter is what separates us from the beasts, and that a baby does not have a SOUL, until the moment it laughs for the first time. Historian Barry Sanders, author of Sudden Glory, says that according to Aristotle, this...
03.24.2020
Holey Cow
Not long ago, writer Mary Roach got a real hands-on lesson on the gut: she got to stick her hand inside a real live cow stomach, and experience digestion from the inside. When we heard about her adventure, we had to try...
03.24.2020
Ghosts of Football Past
It's the end of the 19th century -- the Civil War is over, and the frontier is dead. And young college men are anxious. What great struggle will test their character? Then along comes a new craze: football. A brutally violent game where...
03.24.2020
Colors
To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds? We start with Sir Isaac Newton, who was so eager to solve this very mystery, he stuck a...

What's Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials episodes:

Introducing: NPR's Life Kit

Introducing: Flip and Mozi's Guide to How to be an Earthling

Introducing: Brains On

Terrestrials: The Hybrid

Terrestrials: The Water Walker

Terrestrials: The Unimaginable

Terrestrials: The Trio

Terrestrials: The Guardian

Terrestrials: The Mastermind

Terrestrials: A New Kids Show from Radiolab

Forests on Forests

Octomom

Behaves So Strangely

Never Quite Now

The Distance of the Moon

Dark Side of the Earth

Poop Train

The Septendecennial Sing-Along

For the Love of Numbers

For the Birds

Goo And You

Space

Zoos

Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom

The Times They Are a-Changin'

A War We Need

Super Cool

Animal Minds

Bite the Dust

Parasites

Mischel’s Marshmallows

Everything and Nothing

Loop the Loop

KILL EM' ALL

Is Laughter Just A Human Thing?

Holey Cow

Ghosts of Football Past

Colors