Robert Krulwich appears in the following:
Born Wet, Human Babies Are 75 Percent Water. Then Comes Drying
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
A fresh tomato is 93.5 percent water. A fresh baby girl or boy is 75 percent water. A banana, 74 percent. We all start wet, and then, inevitably, dry. A 1-year-old baby carries 10 per...
My Wine Won't Stop Crying — A Mystery In A Wineglass
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Something strange happens when you slosh wine in a wineglass. The wine doesn't just settle. Some of it starts to "cry." That is, little droplets of wine slide down and then mysterious...
Falling Into The Sky And Other Tales Of Gravity
Friday, November 01, 2013
You're high, high up. You lean over and look way, way down. Then you leap. Meet my favorite leapers: An Austrian who falls for 24 continuous miles, a medieval musician who leaps off a...
Falling Into The Sky And Other Tales Of Gravity
Friday, November 01, 2013
For most of us, gravity is the tug that pulls us home.
Every time we slip off a ladder or somersault into a swimming pool, we feel the planet pulling us back. Austrian stuntman Felix Baumgartner took this notion to a crazy extreme last year when he stepped off a ...
Putting On Einstein's Glasses
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Whenever you look at the teeming, rich and oh-so-various world, if you've got the right eyes, if you've got the eyes of a mathematician, you will find patterns — simple, elegant forms...
Putting On Einstein's Glasses
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Whenever you look at the teeming, rich and oh-so-various world, if you've got the right eyes, if you've got the eyes of a mathematician, you will find patterns — simple, elegant forms hiding in everything you see. Those patterns explain why sugar dissolves in a cup of coffee, why clouds ...
Americans Fall Behind In The 'Getting Older' Race
Monday, October 21, 2013
In the 1960s, Americans lived very long lives — among the longest in the world. Since then, we've improved our lot, but not as fast as the French, the Australians, the Swedes, the Bri...
Americans Fall Behind In The 'Getting Older' Race
Monday, October 21, 2013
As we all know, Americans are living longer. Women especially.
But here's what you may not know: French, German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, British, Dutch and Canadian women are living longer too, but their lives are getting longer faster than ours. Take a look at this from the National Academy of ...
Successful Children Who Lost A Parent — Why Are There So Many Of Them?
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Writer Malcolm Gladwell calls them "eminent orphans" — an intriguingly large number of successful politicians, statesmen, poets, scientists who lost a parent when they were young. W...
Watch Daniela. She's Up To Something Big
Monday, October 14, 2013
Daniela Rus' lab at MIT is inventing new, ever more remarkable "reconfigurable robots." Don't know what they are? Well, take a look at what her grad students have made and prepare to ...
Radiolab's Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich on the Meaning of Endings
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
This fall, the staff of WNYC's Radiolab is producing their second multi-city tour, Apocalyptical. In this new live stage performance, Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, ...
A Zoo For You
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Zoos are where you go to look at "them," the animals. But not in this video of a zoo in Amsterdam. Here, differences melt away, and all the animals, including the ones with hats, coat...
Comparing Sperm Whales To Sperm: A Swimming Contest
Friday, October 04, 2013
Ready, get set, go! Let's compare a sperm whale plowing through the ocean to a human sperm plowing through a glass of water: The whale barely notices the water it's in; the sperm — oh...
Doing A Da Vinci — If Only Leonardo Could See This
Friday, September 20, 2013
In the book "Arabian Nights," Prince Husain, the eldest son the Sultan, buys a magic carpet which comes with these instructions: Think of a far away place and "Whoever sitteth on this...
Mama Mia, Mama Mia! A Canadian Bohemian Rhapsodizes About String Theory
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
It's been frustrating, this 100-year search by physicists all over the world for a Unified Theory of Everything, and Tim Blais, physics grad student, a capella singer, Queen fan, feel...
Always, Always There
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Two short tales: One about bad guys in a fishing village in Pakistan, the other about good guys in Baghdad. And the question is posed: in the long arc of time, which side prevails, th...
A Most Delightful Map
Friday, September 13, 2013
What I'm going to say sounds ridiculous, but once upon a time it wasn't ridiculous at all. You could wake up one morning in North America and decide to walk to Morocco, have breakfast...
When The Dutch Keep Secrets, Everybody Notices. A Google Puzzle
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
What is this?
When I saw it for the first time, here's what I knew: It's a Google image found on Google Maps, taken by a satellite, plucked and blogged by photographer/sleuth, Mishka Henner. It's a patch of land near a town called Coevorden, in The Netherlands. There's a ...
When The Dutch Keep Secrets, Everybody Notices. A Google Puzzle
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Suppose you wanted to slip into a space quietly, secretly. Would you wear a dazzling, many-colored ball gown? I think not. So how do we explain what the Dutch government is doing on G...
A New Kind Of 'More'
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
If you care about the environment, if you're a good person, you try (in many little ways) to cut back, do with less, live more simply. But when nobody's watching, when you're feeling ...
