Simon Adler appears in the following:
The Tapes That Sparked the Iranian Revolution
Friday, November 26, 2021
How one man's voice upended a country's politics and continues to echo around the globe today.
The Wandering Soul
Thursday, November 25, 2021
On many nights during the Vietnam War, if you listened closely, you’d swear you could hear a ghost. Today, The Experiment explores the story of that ghost and how it still haunts us.
Mixtape: Help?
Friday, November 19, 2021
Three stories of cassette tapes as peculiar helpers, carrying self-help, a village's history and lost love.
Mixtape: Cassetternet
Friday, November 12, 2021
How the cassette tape created the internet.
Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Friday, November 05, 2021
Many nights during the Vietnam war, if you listened closely, you’d swear you heard a ghost. Today, the story of that ghost and how it still haunts us today.
Radiolab's New Series: 'Mixtape'
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
Mixtape, a new special series from Radiolab, focuses on the cassette tape, tracing its legacy and the ways it revolutionized how we listen.
Mixtape: Jack and Bing
Friday, October 29, 2021
Bing Crosby and some stolen Nazi technology won his audience back and changed media forever.
Mixtape: Dakou
Friday, October 22, 2021
Cassette tapes trashed as scrap brought western rock music to China and created a cultural remix on the grandest possible scale.
The Supreme Court of Facebook
Friday, February 12, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about free speech to a new body called the Oversight Board. In collaboration with Radiolab, we look at how and why it came to be.
Facebook's Supreme Court
Friday, February 12, 2021
Facebook built its own Supreme Court to decide who or what is banned on the site. Who is on it, how will it work, and — how much power does it really have?
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?
Bringing Gamma Back, Again
Friday, September 11, 2020
What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes.
The Wubi Effect
Friday, August 14, 2020
In the 1980s, as China was modernizing, they ran into a problem. There was no way to fit their 70,000 plus character language on a QWERTY keyboard. Today, the story of how they did it.
Invisible Allies
Thursday, July 30, 2020
From the brightest star, to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for covid-19.
Post No Evil Redux
Friday, June 19, 2020
Breastfeeding, beheadings and bombings, Facebook has rules to handle them all. Today, we explore those rules and ask what they tell us about the future of free speech.
Atomic Artifacts
Friday, April 24, 2020
America represents many different things to many different people. What if you could only choose one thing, one physical object, to represent it all?
Episode 5: Cuba-ish
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay? Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.
The Other Latif: Episode 5
Friday, March 06, 2020
What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay? Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.
Man Against Horse
Saturday, December 28, 2019
An exploration into our very beginnings, of the first strides we took to become us.
Breaking Bongo
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
What happens when a ragtag bunch of freedom fighters troll their despotic dictator from afar?
