Simon Adler

Senior Producer, Radiolab

If my memory serves me, the first time I was asked the proverbial What do you want to be when you grow up? The answer was, “An astronaut.” Later it became a drawer. Then a guy who makes television commercials. By middle school I decided I wanted to be an environmental engineer, before stints hoping to be a photographer and then filmmaker. In high school, after dreaming of being a teacher, I was certain I’d be a professional jazz saxophone player. In college, I jumped from humanitarian aid worker, to psychotherapist, to indie rock musician. After graduating I wanted to be a writer. Now, I make radio. Email me at sadler@wnyc.org

Simon Adler appears in the following:

Shell Game

Friday, September 06, 2024

One man secretly hands off more and more of his life to an AI voice clone.

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Human vs Horse

Thursday, August 08, 2024

The Summer Olympics are in full swing. Humans are racing against other humans from all across the globe. But you know the one race they don’t have? The one where a human competes agai...

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Mixtapes to the Moon

Friday, May 24, 2024

They promised to change you. They ended up changing all of us. On July 20, 1969, humanity watched as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. 

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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...

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Hold On

Friday, March 01, 2024

The quest for the highest-stakes hold music of all time.

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Death Interrupted

Friday, December 15, 2023

An ICU doctor promotes accepting death, then his dad gets terminal cancer.
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Toy Soldiers

Friday, November 03, 2023

The story of how a tiny device is having a huge impact on the war in Ukraine.
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The Internet Dilemma

Friday, August 11, 2023

How the law that created the modern Internet may be destroying it—and us.
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Man Against Horse

Friday, July 07, 2023

How butts make us human.
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The Cataclysm Sentence

Friday, June 30, 2023

What’s the one thing you’d pass on if we all disappeared tomorrow?
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The Library of Alexandra

Friday, April 07, 2023

One woman's quest to make all knowledge free.
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The Flight Before Christmas

Friday, December 23, 2022

Tales of the endurance test that is flying on a commercial airliner with your fellow human.
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The Weather Report

Friday, October 28, 2022

The story of how one man and one woman changed the weather forever.
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Neanderthal's Revenge

Friday, June 10, 2022

A tale of guts, genes, and gratitude. Also, watching videos on your phone while on the toilet.
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La Mancha Screwjob

Friday, May 20, 2022

We push through the fourth wall and travel 400 years into the past to unmask our obsession with authenticity and our desire to walk the line between reality and fantasy.

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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?
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How the Cassette Tape Helped Create the Internet

Friday, April 15, 2022

It started in 1983 with British programmer Simon Goodwin.

The Tapes That Sparked the Iranian Revolution

Friday, April 15, 2022

How one man's voice upended a country's politics and continues to echo around the globe today.

Did Cassettes Help Bring Down the Iron Curtain?

Friday, April 15, 2022

Explaining 'Sneakernet.'

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Friday, April 15, 2022

A story about folks who’ve disappeared and the computers that deleted them.
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