Dan Deacon's 'America': A Beautiful Cacophony
Composer and electronic musician Dan Deacon is known for his brilliantly cacophonous sound collages (hello, "Call Me Maybe") and high-energy dance parties. His forthcoming album is called America -...
View ArticlePodcast: Dan Deacon Plays Live, Rock Shows at Sea, and Your Nightmare Cruise
Bespectacled Baltimore musician and composer Dan Deacon performs live music from his new album, America. Plus, we talk with Billboard editor Joe Levy about rock shows at sea - and our listeners chime...
View ArticleApocalypse Very Soon
Archeologists tells us that ancient Mayan documents predict that the world, as we know it now, will be end in five years. Daniel Pinchbeck was a cynical, non-believing journalist when he started...
View ArticleThe End of the World As We Know It?
All this week, we've been talking with our friends from Scientific American about endings — how cultures fade, and natural resources dwindle. Today, we’re focusing on something even bigger: the end of...
View ArticleIs it Human Nature to Predict the End of the World?
Have a great day today, listeners, because for many of you it will be your last — according to Harold Camping, a Californian radio preacher. He says the world will end tomorrow, May 21st. And his...
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Spreading the Judgment Day Message at Union Square
People love to laugh at Michael Aitchison and Julie Baker. They believe in Judgment Day, a theory presented by, among others, the Christian group Family Radio, a broadcasting network using its airwaves...
View ArticleCovering the Apocalypse
Even if you're not among those who believe the world will end on 12/21/2012, it's gotta end sometime right? And if there are still journalists at the end, they'll need a game plan. At a recent...
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More Car Ads For the Apocalypse
It was, presumably, meant to be humorous -- a Chevy can survive anything, even the apocalypse. Or so the message of last night's Super Bowl ad for Chevy Silverados implied. As a driver passes destroyed...
View ArticleCovering the Apocalypse
Even if you're not among those who believe the world will end on 12/21/2012, it's gotta end sometime right? And if there are still journalists at the end, they'll need a game plan. At a recent...
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Krulwich Wonders: U.S. Explodes Atomic Bombs Near Beers to See if They Are...
Mountain Ash via FlickrSo you're minding your own business when all of a sudden, a nuclear bomb goes off, there's a shock wave, fires all around, general destruction and you, having somehow survived,...
View ArticleFact Checking the End of the World
Citing the Mayan calendar, many people believe that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Some of those people email NASA scientist David Morrison who, unlike most scientists, takes their concerns...
View ArticleMayan Time
Jose Barreiro, assistant director for research at the National Museum of the American Indian, offers a fact-based account of the much discussed Mayan calendar and explains how contemporary Mayan...
View ArticleJohn Hodgman on the End of the World
If we’re to believe the movies and what we see on TV, the world will soon be coming to an end. Maybe it will be at the hands of zombies. Maybe it will be the result of selfish human choices. Maybe it...
View ArticleApocalyptical
Cataclysmic destruction. Surprising survival. In this new live stage performance, Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonizingly slow.This hour we celebrate the...
View ArticleDinopocalypse
We’ve all heard the story of what happened on the day the dinosaurs died, right? Well, we thought we had. Turns out, high-powered ballistics experiments, fancy computer algorithms, and good...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End
Not much was left roaming Earth after the Dinosaurs were wiped out. But among the few survivors there was one little creature that crawled out of the ground and gave rise to nearly every mammal on...
View ArticleBait and Tackling
By noon today, members of Northwestern’s football team will have voted on forming a union. You can cast your own ballots on the issue during our call-in segment. Plus: after the end of the world, how...
View ArticleDo You Deserve to Be on Our Post-Apocalypse Team? Convince Us.
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell wrote a serious book about the end of the world and the various environmental, medical, and societal issues that would arise if we had to rebuild civilization on Earth....
View ArticleWhen the Apocalypse Comes, What Will You Have to Offer?
Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist, UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, and the author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch (Penguin Press 2014), explores all...
View ArticleJohn Luther Adams
What's the soundtrack for the end of the world? We go looking for an answer.When Jad started to compose music for our live show Apocalyptical, he immediately thought of John Luther Adams. Adams'...
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