Rachael is a producer for Radiolab. She started on the show’s Special Projects Unit, where she worked on Radiolab Presents: Gonads and Radiolab Presents: G. Now she mostly spends her time writing about herself in the third person, or trying to craft a masterful pun that makes everyone roll their eyes. Before joining Radiolab, she studied food science and worked as a cheese curd flipper, pastry chef, and egg scrambler. She also spent some time hanging out at NPR, Politico, and Slate.
Rachael Cusick appears in the following:
G: Relative Genius
Friday, February 02, 2024
When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for the origin of genius.
The Internet Dilemma
Friday, August 11, 2023
How the law that created the modern Internet may be destroying it—and us.
The Cataclysm Sentence
Friday, June 30, 2023
What’s the one thing you’d pass on if we all disappeared tomorrow?
Alone Enough
Friday, March 24, 2023
Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
The Flight Before Christmas
Friday, December 23, 2022
Tales of the endurance test that is flying on a commercial airliner with your fellow human.
Hello, My Name Is
Friday, April 29, 2022
This week, we're talking names. They're some of the first labels we get, and they can both reveal and conceal. Do they shape us? Or the other way around?
Flop Off
Friday, December 31, 2021
This year was a flop. Here at Radiolab we wanted to flip that flop, so we dredged up the most mortifying, most cringeworthy, most gravity-defying flops as a Flop Off to 2021.
Of Bombs and Butterflies
Friday, October 15, 2021
One man’s battle, and we mean battle, to save a tiny little butterfly before it vanishes.
HEAVY METAL
Friday, September 24, 2021
What happens when you’re the only one who can see something?
When Grief Doesn't Move In Stages
Friday, July 23, 2021
Radiolab producer Rachael Cusick talks together with her grandmother about their shared loss, and about their experiences with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief.
The Queen of Dying
Friday, July 23, 2021
The remarkable story of the woman who showed us all how to stare down death: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
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.
Bringing Gamma Back, Again
Friday, September 11, 2020
What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes.
Dispatches from 1918
Friday, July 17, 2020
Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
The Cataclysm Sentence
Saturday, April 18, 2020
What’s the one thing you’d pass on if we all disappeared tomorrow?
Man Against Horse
Saturday, December 28, 2019
An exploration into our very beginnings, of the first strides we took to become us.
G: The Miseducation of Larry P
Friday, June 07, 2019
More than a million American kids a year get IQ tested, but in the state of California, if your kid is Black, they almost surely won’t be given one.
G: Problem Space
Thursday, June 06, 2019
Can IQ tests ever be used ... for good? This episode, we meet a few people who think they can be.
