Soren Wheeler

Executive Editor, Radiolab

Soren Wheeler appears in the following:

Animal Blessings

Monday, January 11, 2010

During the annual Blessing of the Animals at St. John the Divine Cathedral, the congregation might include any animal from Noah's ark.

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Calculove

Monday, November 30, 2009

Producer Soren Wheeler brings us a story about a friendship between Steve Strogatz and his high school math teacher, Don Joffray.

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Numbers

Monday, November 30, 2009

Love 'em or hate 'em, you rely on numbers every day. We ask how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.

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Killing Babies, Saving the World

Monday, November 16, 2009

Robert ambushes Jad with a question we've all been dying to ask him since he became a father.
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New Baboon

Monday, October 19, 2009

Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer to the question, "Will humans ever stop fighting wars?" To get the answer, we look to our distant past.

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15: Sum

Thursday, August 13, 2009

A reading from David Eagleman's book Sum read by actor Jeffrey Tambor.
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What’s the Difference Anyway?

Monday, July 27, 2009

Meditations on how, when—and even if—we die.

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Are We Coins?

Monday, June 29, 2009

We follow up on our Stochasticity show with an exploration pf whether the little choices we make every day are predictable or not.
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A Very Lucky Wind

Monday, June 15, 2009

An English girl, just shy of 10 years old, didn't realize the strange course her life would take after her red balloon was swept away into the sky.

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Seeking Patterns

Monday, June 15, 2009

Randomness may govern the world around us, but does it guide us?

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Random Rules

Monday, June 15, 2009

The business of life is the business of taking the disorder of the world, little bits of matter scattered here and there, and giving them shape, regularity, order. Or so we all thought.

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Stochasticity

Monday, June 15, 2009

How stochasticity—a wonderfully smarty-pants word for randomness—drives our lives and the patterns we see around us.

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Race

Monday, December 15, 2008

Radiolab asks what race is, and whether it's fixed or fluid, genes or culture?

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Race and Medicine

Monday, December 15, 2008

We want to know what the ramifications are for using skin color as a diagnostic tool for diseases and disorders that can't be seen.

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Climate change and critical thinking

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

NPR’s David Kestenbaum ran a piece yesterday on Morning Edition about a 16-year-old climate skeptic named Kristen Byrnes. This ambitious teenager has set up a website and dedicated huge chunks of her time to arguing that the rise of global temperature is part of a natural cycle and not, as most climate scientists agree, caused by human action.

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The mark of a dedicated scientist

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Not all scientists are the quiet, serious type. Science writer Carl Zimmer offers a unique peek under the lab coat on his site Science Tattoo Emporium.

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(So-Called) Life

Monday, April 07, 2008

The uneasy marriage of biology and engineering raises big questions about the nature of life.

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Mix and Match

Monday, April 07, 2008

To get us thinking about creating new life forms, we tag along with a group of kids on a visit to the American Museum of Natural History exhibit on mythic creatures.

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On the Road Again, in Latvia

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Soren here, one of Radio Lab's worker bees ... With our Pop Music show on the way (the podcast will be released next week), I thought I'd prime the pump with a little personal pop music story:

When I was a kid, my family drove across the country every summer - from Montana, where we lived, to New Hampshire, where my father grew up. There was only one kind of music that played in that ‘74 Pinto station wagon as the great plains rolled by: Willie Nelson. And the favorite song was, of course, “On the Road Again.”

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Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke, the author of the book '2001: A Space Odyssey,' which became a Stanely Kubrick movie, died yesterday. Clarke was a visionary science fiction writer who foresaw the use of satellites for communications and planted a seed of wonder and awe in the universe for many young kids, including me.

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