Lulu Miller

Lulu Miller appears in the following:

Brooke speaks with Lulu Miller about her new book, "Why Fish Don't Exist"

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

The story of a long-heralded, lately-demoted taxonomist of fish and then, notoriously, people. 

Insomnia Line

Friday, September 25, 2020

It’s the dead of night, you’re wide awake. And you’re not alone. So we put a phone number on twitter, and spent all night talking to the sleepless among us.
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Falling

Thursday, September 17, 2020

We plunge into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, and upend some myths about falling cats.

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Lulu Miller on 'Why Fish Don't Exist'

Friday, April 17, 2020

Lulu Miller, Peabody Award–winning science reporter and co-founder of NPR’s Invisibilia, discusses her book, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life.

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Opossums, Hydras And Hummingbirds: What We're Learning About Aging From Animals

Monday, April 06, 2020

Some animals live longer than they should for their size. Some have shorter lives. And others don't appear to age at all.

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'Invisibilia': Tiny Creature Revolutionizes Our Understanding Of Life

Monday, April 06, 2020

From NPR's podcast Invisibilia, the story of a tiny aquatic creature called the Hydra that could provide a clue to staving off some major diseases of aging.

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The L Word is Back

Monday, January 13, 2020

A decade after The L Word ended, The L Word: Generation Q is finally here, so this week we're revisiting the time Kathy watched the original series.

It's Mother Fudging BD Wong!

Monday, January 06, 2020

Consider this episode a gift to start your 2020 off RIGHT: It’s our conversation with the one-and-only BD Wong. Dreams do come true.

Chani Nicholas + Joel Kim Booster

Monday, December 30, 2019

Our holiday gift to you: Chani Nicholas and Joel Kim Booster (our conversation with them, that is, not the actual people...though we wish we could)!

What's Left When You're Right?

Thursday, September 05, 2019

From the stage to the cage, a series of showdowns that leave us wondering about the price of being right ... or coming from the left.

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G: Unfit

Tuesday, June 04, 2019

A journey to one of the darkest sides of humanity’s attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes.
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Are Humans Biologically Programmed To Fear What They Don't Understand?

Thursday, April 05, 2018

In a world increasingly drawn to the black-and-white of defined categories, Allie n Steve Mullen has found living in between those categories to be invigorating. They switch between male and female throughout each day, based on their activities.

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Can You Psych Yourself Into Running A 4-Minute Mile?

Thursday, June 23, 2016

NPR's Lulu Miller tells the story of one runner who always believed he could break the four-minute mile. Then a terrible accident made him question if he would ever be the same runner.

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Don't Fear the Vocal Fry

Monday, June 08, 2015

It's a thing. Or is it?

A Leap Forward In The Science Of Human Locomotion

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

If you have two legs, there are a variety of ways you can get around. Walking, running, leaping, hopping, skipping, prancing, powerwalking, heck, even grape-vining. The list goes on and on. But what is the most efficient?

Not the fastest, but the most efficient: requiring ...

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Can A Computer Change The Essence Of Who You Are?

Friday, February 13, 2015

The latest episode of NPR's Invisibilia takes us online. Some people think interacting with these machines is changing us all — for better and worse.

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Being With People Like You Offers Comfort Against Death's Chill

Friday, February 06, 2015

Iggy Ignatius bet that immigrants from India would long to live with other Indians in his Florida condos. He was right. Psychologists say intimations of mortality make us want to be with our own kind.

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A Blind Woman Gains New Freedom, Click By Click By Click

Friday, January 23, 2015

Blind since birth, Julee-anne Bell learned to get by better on her own with echolocation, a method explored in this week's Invisibilia. But along the way, she found that independence came with costs.

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Trapped In His Body For 12 Years, A Man Breaks Free

Friday, January 09, 2015

Martin Pistorius spent more than a decade unable to move or communicate, fearing he would be alone, trapped, forever. NPR's new show Invisibilia tells how his mind helped him create a new life.

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The Blind Woman Who Sees Rain, But Not Her Daughter's Smile

Monday, May 26, 2014

When Milena Channing was 29 years old she was blinded by a stroke. But the injury left her with connections from her eyes to the part of the brain that detects motion.

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