Robert Krulwich

Robert Krulwich works on radio, podcasts, video, the blogosphere. He has been called "the most inventive network reporter in television" by TV Guide.

Krulwich is a Science Correspondent for NPR. His NPR blog, "Krulwich Wonders" features drawings, cartoons and videos that illustrate hard-to-see concepts in science.

He is the co-host of Radiolab, a nationally distributed radio/podcast series that explores new developments in science for people who are curious but not usually drawn to science shows. "There's nothing like it on the radio," says Ira Glass of This American Life, "It's a act of crazy genius." Radiolab won a Peabody Award in 2011.

His specialty is explaining complex subjects, science, technology, economics, in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining. On television he has explored the structure of DNA using a banana; on radio he created an Italian opera, "Ratto Interesso" to explain how the Federal Reserve regulates interest rates; he has pioneered the use of new animation on ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight.

For 22 years, Krulwich was a science, economics, general assignment and foreign correspondent at ABC and CBS News.

He won Emmy awards for a cultural history of the Barbie doll, for a Frontline investigation of computers and privacy, a George Polk and Emmy for a look at the Savings & Loan bailout online advertising and the 2010 Essay Prize from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Krulwich earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Oberlin College and a law degree from Columbia University.

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Krulwich Wonders...
7:28 am
Tue December 11, 2012

Pigeon Interuptus — A Fish That Hunts Pigeons On Land

Credit YouTube

Originally published on Tue December 11, 2012 3:34 pm

Krulwich Wonders...
7:38 am
Mon December 10, 2012

How About A Little Drive, Hmm? (A Horror Story)

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Originally published on Tue December 11, 2012 5:12 pm

Krulwich Wonders...
9:26 am
Wed December 5, 2012

Strange Looking Tombstone Tells Of Moving Ice, Ancient Climates And A Restless Mind

Originally published on Wed December 5, 2012 11:39 am

With glaciers melting and crumbling all over the world, let me tell you the story of the man who first imagined ice ages, the man buried under this stone in Cambridge, Mass. It's an odd gravestone; a rough, clumpy hunk of granite that doesn't look at all like the other markers at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

That's because it isn't. It's an erratic. A single stone found sitting downhill from a glacier in Switzerland that was lifted, packed, shipped to all the way to Massachusetts to honor this man.

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Krulwich Wonders...
10:47 am
Tue December 4, 2012

New Superhero, 3,200 Years Old, Turns Air Into Wood Superfast

This is for you, Martina Navratilova, for you, Nolan Ryan, for you, Methuselah, for you, Jimmy Carter, and for all of you reading this if you're on the "wrong" side of 50 but still pumping. This week, we've got ourselves a role model, a poster boy for robust old age.

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Krulwich Wonders...
6:08 am
Sat December 1, 2012

Music Video Borrows From 200-Million-Year-Old Artist And Disappears

Originally published on Sun December 9, 2012 8:14 am

Krulwich Wonders...
7:11 am
Fri November 30, 2012

Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee

Originally published on Fri November 30, 2012 10:19 am

We'll start in a cornfield — we'll call it an Iowa cornfield in late summer — on a beautiful day. The corn is high. The air is shimmering. There's just one thing missing — and it's a big thing...

...a very big thing, but I won't tell you what, not yet.

Instead, let's take a detour. We'll be back to the cornfield in a minute, but just to make things interesting, I'm going to leap halfway around the world to a public park near Cape Town, South Africa, where you will notice a cube, a metal cube, lying there in the grass.

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Krulwich Wonders...
8:52 am
Thu November 29, 2012

The Rubik's Cube That Isn't

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This is your brain making things up.

What you see isn't really there.

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Krulwich Wonders...
7:59 am
Wed November 28, 2012

Is Life A Smoother Ride If You're A Chicken?

Originally published on Fri November 30, 2012 10:02 am

Krulwich Wonders...
12:20 pm
Mon November 26, 2012

Ferocious Flowers

Credit Andrew Zuckerman Studio / Vimeo
A screen-grab from Andrew Zuckerman's Flower project.

Originally published on Wed November 21, 2012 8:07 am

Krulwich Wonders...
10:40 am
Wed November 21, 2012

Double Thanks

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monkey

Originally published on Wed November 21, 2012 11:58 am

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