Latif Nasser is co-host of the award-winning WNYC Studios show Radiolab.
Latif Nasser is co-host of the award-winning WNYC Studios show Radiolab, where he has reported stories on everything from snowflake photography to medieval robots to a polar bear who liked to have sex with grizzly bears. Earlier this year, he hosted the miniseries The Other Latif, about his Moroccan namesake who happens to be Detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay.
In addition to his work in audio, Latif is the host and executive producer of the Netflix science documentary series, Connected. He has also given two TED talks, and written for the Boston Globe Ideas section. He has a PhD from Harvard's History of Science department.
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Shows:
Latif Nasser appears in the following:
Staph Retreat
Friday, March 08, 2024
In the war on devilish microbes, our weapons are starting to fail us. What if the only way forward is backward?
Our Little Stupid Bodies
Friday, January 12, 2024
A series of energetically uneasy investigations into the temple of our souls.
Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence
Friday, October 13, 2023
An anthropologist finds something macabre in the desert. High schoolers challenge the Border Patrol. Part One of our Border Trilogy.
Baby Blue Blood Drive
Friday, July 08, 2022
We look at a half-billion-year-old secret: a superpower that helped this unassuming organism outlive the dinosaurs and survive all the Earth’s mass extinctions
Return of Alpha Gal
Friday, December 10, 2021
Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops - with a side of genetic modification.
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.
Oliver Sipple
Friday, October 01, 2021
In a flash of heroism and humanity, Oliver Sipple saved a life and became something he never wanted to be.
What Up Holmes?
Friday, April 02, 2021
Today, a Supreme Court mystery. How one judge changed his mind about free speech, how that changed all the rest of our minds, and whether it’s time to change our minds again.
Elements
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Scientists took about 300 years to lay out the Periodic Table into neat rows and columns. In one hour, we’re going to mess it all up.
A Terrible Covid Christmas Special
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
A terrible Christmas special befitting a terrible year.
Breaking Benford
Friday, November 13, 2020
The internet says an obscure mathematical law can tell us something about the 2020 US election. It can't. But it can tell us about us.
Baby Blue Blood Drive
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Horseshoe crabs harbor a half-billion-year-old secret: a superpower that helped them outlive the dinosaurs. But it hasn’t just been saving their butts, it’s been saving ours too.
Dispatches from 1918
Friday, July 17, 2020
Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
Episode 6: The United States of America
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Despite being cleared for transfer home in 2016, Abdul Latif Nasser is still stuck at Guantanamo. Why? Latif digs for answers, and spoiler: it goes all the way to the top.
The Other Latif: Episode 6
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Despite being cleared for transfer home in 2016, Abdul Latif Nasser is still stuck at Guantanamo. Why? Latif digs for answers, and spoiler: it goes all the way to the top.
Episode 5: Cuba-ish
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay? Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.
Episode 4: Afghanistan
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Latif investigates Abdul Latif’s classified time in Afghanistan, and amidst the explosions and rubble, finds a jailhouse interview that changes how he sees his namesake.
Episode 3: Sudan
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Abdul Latif Nasser gets a job working on a sunflower farm in Sudan. What on earth could be suspicious about that?
Episode 2: Morocco
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Latif travels to Morocco to trace his namesake's possible onramp into extremism and is surprised by what he finds.
Episode 1: My Namesake
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Radiolab’s Latif Nasser is stunned to find he shares his name with detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. This man was cleared to leave Gitmo in 2016, so why is he still stuck there?
