Podcasts
Wild Thing
A narrative podcast about the topics people obsess over, and what science can and can’t tell us about them. Each season is a standalone story. 5 million downloads, #7 on Apple Podcasts, and one of The Atlantic’s 50 best podcasts of 2018 and 2020.
Season 1 · 2018
Bigfoot
Believe in Bigfoot? Think it’s total BS? Laura spent a year in the woods and in the lab trying to answer that question, starting with a surprise: her long-lost cousin Grover Krantz was a tenured anthropologist and one of the world’s preeminent Sasquatch experts. What she found might surprise the staunchest non-believers.
Season 2 · 2020
Space Invaders
Think there are aliens out there? You’re not alone. Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings and alien encounters abound, and the scientific search for extraterrestrials has never been more serious. Laura turns our collective gaze skyward: What’s the likelihood of life on other planets? Or that aliens have already made the trip to visit us? And why do we want to find them?
Season 3 · 2022
Going Nuclear
In 1961, an experimental reactor called SL-1 exploded at a federal research site in Idaho, killing three men. It’s still the deadliest nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history, and it happened not far from where Laura grew up. Using science, history and culture, she sizes up the real risks and promise of atomic energy, and asks whether we’re responsible enough to use it.
Other shows
Laura also reports, edits and produces for other people’s series.
- Blood VinesWondery / Foxtopus · producer
- Master PlanThe Lever · producer & reporter
- The SyndicateImperative / Foxtopus · producer & editor
- Sidedoor · Air/SpaceSmithsonian / PRX · editor