Matthew Cloutier
Matthew Cloutier is a producer for TED Radio Hour. While at the show, he has focused on stories about science and the natural world, ranging from Mars rovers and failed telescope launches to exploring Antarctica's hidden life and 3D scans of the planet. He has also pitched these kinds of episodes, including "Through the looking glass" and "Migration."
Cloutier began in January 2020 with an internship for TED Radio Hour, following which he expanded into social media and audience engagement, including a series of activities and lessons to pair with show segments. He began regularly producing segments for the show in the fall of 2020.
Prior to NPR, Cloutier worked for the greatest radio station in the world, the independent WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He graduated from Middlebury College in 2019 with a degree in environmental studies and never outgrew his childhood obsessions with dinosaurs, moths and sea life. Accordingly, he often succeeds in working into conversations that summer he did necropsies on an island owned by unitarians.
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NPR staffers recommend "The Theater," "In Trees," "The Infinity Machine," and "Restrung" for this nonfiction installment of "Books We Love."
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As host of the On Being radio show, Krista Tippett asked guests countless metaphysical questions. But this new year, she recommends tossing the resolutions and turning the big questions on yourself. -
Since childhood, Joshua Roman's life revolved around the cello. But when long COVID forced him to set his cello aside, he had to rethink his approach to life, faith and music. -
Louisiana has two problems: an eroding coastline and limited glass recycling. Engineer Franziska Trautmann is solving both by turning bottles into beach sand. -
A newly discovered species of caterpillar eats other bugs and then wears their dead bodies.
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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reflects on her term and the urgency of connecting to nature through poetry. -
Scientists have discovered a new color... but you can only see it through a laser. How did scientists make the discovery and what could it mean for how we see color?
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Researchers from Rice University imaged the magma underneath Yellowstone and showed how it vents pressure, reducing the likelihood of a massive eruption anytime soon.
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When bats swarm out of caves in the thousands, they almost never crash into each other. Why?
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12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not local cows or sheep, but seals from as far away as Greenland. The find highlights the extent of medieval trade.
