The Great Lemming Lie

Long before TikTok dances, there was the Dougie. In 2010, Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How to Dougie” went worldwide, and for the decade-plus since, people have been trying to learn the viral moves. More than 15 years later, a Korean TikTok creator went viral for doing the Doug ...  Show more

Kurt Gödel was a genius mathematician and logician, considered by many scholars to be as influential as Aristotle. He was also buddies with fellow geniuses Albert Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern, the co-creator of Game Theory. In 1947, Gödel told Morgenstern and Einstein he had id ...  Show more

Lies, liars, and lie catchers. This hour of Radiolab asks if it's possible for anyone to lead a life without deception.

What we see or hear may not always be what it seems. Often there are obscuring tricks of the light or ghostly whispers that sound like whistles on the wind. It comes down to the mind’s eye to believe in the stories that reveal horrors that can deceive. All of it hides behind the ...  Show more

“Someone is lying. And it’s hard to know who’s lying and who’s not.” 

In most wildlife films, the sounds you hear were not recorded while the cameras were rolling. Most filmmakers use long telephoto lenses to film animals, but there’s no sonic equivalent of a zoom lens. Good audio requires a microphone close … <a href="http://99percentinvisible. ...