Becca is a producer for Radiolab. She was born and raised in the Bay Area, where she graduated without honors from UC Berkeley. There, she studied cognitive science, worked on a documentary film, and obsessed over Mad Men. Before entering the world of radio, she worked in film production at Pixar Animation Studios. She spends much of her free time (and occupied time, frankly) thinking about her next meal.
Becca Bressler appears in the following:
The Menopause Mystery
Friday, August 08, 2025
What do orcas, chimps and humans have in common? A puzzling pause.
Growth
Friday, March 14, 2025
The mysterious, awe-inspiring and sometimes uncontrollable forces that make things get big.
The Moon Itself
Friday, April 05, 2024
There’s a total solar eclipse coming. On Monday, April 8, for a large swath of North America, the sun will disappear, in the middle of the day. Everywhere you look, people are talking...
Our Little Stupid Bodies
Friday, January 12, 2024
A series of energetically uneasy investigations into the temple of our souls.
Little Black Holes Everywhere
Friday, July 28, 2023
Today, one of the strangest things ever to hit planet Earth. Maybe.
Half of My Parents, All of Me
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Folashade Olatunde, a WNYC Radio Rookie, shares a series of open and honest audio diaries, inviting listeners on her journey to rebuild a relationship with her dad.
Gigaverse
Friday, August 26, 2022
The gig economy is an entire universe. What is it like working inside of it?
Frailmales
Friday, May 13, 2022
This week, we bring you two stories about little guys trying to do big big things.
Hello, My Name Is
Friday, April 29, 2022
This week, we're talking names. They're some of the first labels we get, and they can both reveal and conceal. Do they shape us? Or the other way around?
A journey to reconnect with an incarcerated father
Friday, April 08, 2022
Folashade Olatunde shares her journey to rebuild her relationship with her incarcerated father, following her first visit to the prison in more than a decade.
HEAVY METAL
Friday, September 24, 2021
What happens when you’re the only one who can see something?
Kleptotherms
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
We break the thermometer watch the mercury spill out as we discover temperature is far stranger than it seems. Five stories that run the gamut from snakes to stars.
More Money Less Problems
Friday, January 15, 2021
A trillion dollar platinum coin sends us down a wormhole, re-examining a classic question: why can’t we just print more money?
Bloc Party
Monday, November 02, 2020
Who are the soccer moms of the 2020 election? We set out to find them.
Slippery Mystery
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
From a sound rising from a marsh in South Carolina to the estuaries of New York to the darkest part of the ocean, we go in search of the limits of human knowledge.
Blood and Beauty
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Today we explore a different way of looking at evolution and what it may mean for the course of science.
