Lulu Miller appears in the following:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contagious Aphrodisiac? Virus Makes Crickets Have More Sex
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Researchers have stumbled upon a virus that makes crickets horny before it kills them. Inducing your host to mate more is a great way for a virus to spread its own genes.
Lu vs. Soo
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Lulu Miller, reporter at NPR and former Radiolab producer, tells us the story of how her entire world view flipped in one scary moment.
Known Unknowns
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Stories of trying to chart the unknown by measuring and making sense of things just beyond our grasp.
The Risks and Rewards of Empathy
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? Lulu Miller introduces us to Jeff Lockwood, a professor at the University of Wyoming, who spent a part of his career studying a ...
Letters Of Heartbreak Find Some Love In Verona, Italy
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Each year, the town of Verona, Italy — home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — receives thousands of letters of heartache and unrequited love addressed to the play's star-crossed heroine.
The tradition of sending letters to Juliet very likely goes back centuries. People started by leaving notes on a local ...
Pies Will Cure Nothing
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Lulu Miller's personal take on pies, in honor of Pi Day.
The Love Secretary Always Writes Back
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Lulu Miller's advice for taking the edge off that unrequited love this Valentine's? Send a letter to Verona, Italy, where an office of 20 volunteers replies to thousands of notes abou...
