Quoctrung Bui/NPR Krulwich Wonders... Is That A Lark I Hear? A Nightingale? Surprise! It's A Bat by Robert Krulwich , Quoctrung Bui October 1, 2014 • There are animals famous for their songs. Whales sing. Birds sing. We humans have Aretha, Elvis, Ray Charles, Pavarotti. But bats — who knew? Tadarida brasiliensis Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/352586936/352587081" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Robert Rauschenberg/SFMOMA Weekend Special 2 Ways To Think About Nothing, One Mo' Time by Robert Krulwich September 28, 2014 • Let's compare two kinds of nothing: an empty patch of deep space and an empty piece of paper that was once beautiful. There's nothing to see in either. Or is there?
Adam Cole/NPR Krulwich Wonders... Everything Dies, Right? But Does Everything Have To Die? Here's A Surprise by Robert Krulwich , Adam Cole September 26, 2014 • Meet two animals. Both are teeny. Both live in water. Both mature extra fast. But while one dies in about a week, the other — well, prepare to be amazed.
Robert Krulwich/NPR Krulwich Wonders... This Blog Is Ending Soon by Robert Krulwich September 24, 2014 • Krulwich and his Wonders are packing up, and before I go, I'd like to shake all your hands, each and every one of you, and say thank you. This is my goodbye.
Courtesy of Matt Inman Krulwich Wonders... 'Murdersquishing' Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous Hornets by Robert Krulwich September 19, 2014 • They are small. They are weak. They are vulnerable. But these little bees take on a humongous predator in the most ingenious way.
iStockphoto Weekend Special Howling Babies Drove Prehistoric Warriors Into Battle? by Robert Krulwich September 14, 2014 • Can a colicky baby's piercing scream be militarized? As in, made (literally) into a weapon of war? Oh, absolutely, says this scholar, smiling ever so slightly.
Courtesy of Tyler Nordgen Krulwich Wonders... What Makes A Star Starry? Is It Me? by Robert Krulwich September 12, 2014 • Draw a planet (a circle, right?). Now draw a star (a pointy thing, yes?). Now ask yourself, aren't stars all round? Our sun is. So why do we make them pointy? Come learn the answer.
BirdCast/YouTube Krulwich Wonders... Souls Tumbling In The Light by Robert Krulwich September 10, 2014 • Every fall, birds head south and, around Sept. 11, New York sends two beams into the sky. When birds and lights collide, that could mean trouble — but New York is surprisingly gentle.
Nature Video/YouTube Weekend Special Mapping What You Cannot See, Cannot Know, Cannot Visit by Robert Krulwich September 7, 2014 • We live on a planet, next to a star that's part of a galaxy that's part of ... ah, here comes the new discovery. We are at the very tip of a giant galactic "supercluster." Take a look.
NIH Human Connectome Project/Science Photo Library/Corbis Krulwich Wonders... Building Me: A Puzzlement by Robert Krulwich September 5, 2014 • I am made of atoms — 7,000 trillion trillion of them. How did I teach them to tie my shoes? Or did they teach me?
Gordon Parks/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Krulwich Wonders... Glenn Gould In Rapture by Robert Krulwich September 4, 2014 • You don't get to see this too often: a man (in this case, a very talented man) totally possessed by his muse. Watch pianist Glenn Gould deep in what psychologists call "a flow state."
Courtesy of Marco Cianfanelli Krulwich Wonders... A Giant Appears At The Edge Of An African Roadway by Robert Krulwich September 3, 2014 • If the task is to think backward, to an important moment in history, here's a stunning way to do it: It's a jewel of a monument alongside a road in South Africa.
Courtesy of Erik Johansson Weekend Special Roadways You Can Install Like Throw Rugs by Robert Krulwich August 24, 2014 • You look. You gape. You can't believe your eyes. Well, take a peek at this image and ask yourself, 'How did they do this?'
Robert Krulwich/NPR Krulwich Wonders... When Venus Was Filled With Venusians — 50 Billion Of Them by Robert Krulwich August 21, 2014 • Look up at the night sky and ask, "Anybody there?" Then consider this answer (from the 1830s): There are 22 trillion individuals in our solar system.
Robert Krulwich/NPR Krulwich Wonders... If You're Born In The Sky, What's Your Nationality? An Airplane Puzzler by Robert Krulwich August 20, 2014 • Suppose two Chinese parents get on an Australian airplane and, while flying over U.S. territory, they have a baby on the plane. Can that baby be an American citizen?
Vi Hart/YouTube Krulwich Wonders... When Snails Lose Their Way by Robert Krulwich August 15, 2014 • There are happy snails. There are lonely snails. And there are lost snails. This one is lost. Totally. But it sings.
Focus Features/YouTube Krulwich Wonders... Stephen Hawking's Dazzling Life Becomes A Movie, But What Sort Of Movie? by Robert Krulwich August 14, 2014 • A new movie turns the physicist into a romantic lead. But how will it handle the not-so-wonderful parts of his marriage? Truthaholics want to know.
Courtesy of Thomas Doyle Krulwich Wonders... Elemental Storytelling by Robert Krulwich August 12, 2014 • Thomas Doyle tells stories with teeny frozen people. They aren't cold. They are frozen in time, but he freezes them with exquisitely suspenseful, Sherlock Holmes-like care.
SmarterEveryDay/YouTube Krulwich Wonders... What A Balloon Shouldn't Do, But For Some Reason Does by Robert Krulwich August 7, 2014 • Tether a balloon to the floor of a car, step on the gas, and watch the balloon do something it shouldn't. Ask why. Then discover the answer. Then feel smart.
Robert Krulwich/NPR Krulwich Wonders... How To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweating by Robert Krulwich August 5, 2014 • Nations need borders for security, for revenue, for defense, for identity. But for fun? Introducing borders that giggle.
Tanaka/Flickr Weekend Special Guess Who's Been Waiting In The Lobby For A Hundred Million Years? by Robert Krulwich August 2, 2014 • The M-Thing. It's patient. It's modest. It's relentless. It stays.
Robert Krulwich/NPR Krulwich Wonders... Where The Birds Are Is Not Where You'd Think by Robert Krulwich July 28, 2014 • Birds are everywhere, but the greatest concentration of different birds — the "bird mecca" of America — is not in our great parks, not in our forests, not where you'd suppose. Not at all.
