Simon Adler

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.

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.

From the brightest star, to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for covid-19.

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.  

America represents many different things to many different people. What if you could only choose one thing, one physical object, to represent it all? 

What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay?  Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.

What happened to Abdul Latif at Guantanamo Bay?  Latif visits the “legal equivalent of outer space,” and manages to see his namesake … maybe.

An exploration into our very beginnings, of the first strides we took to become us. 

What happens when a ragtag bunch of freedom fighters troll their despotic dictator from afar? 

A scientist launches a controversial genetic test for intelligence: what does it really tell us?

What do a hacked Belgian election, a falling airplane and a fleet of runaway cars all have in common? The answer just might lie in the stars.

Parasitic genes, public poop, and the eerie sound of a subway train. What is ... the answer to your stupid question?

This might be a stupid question, but...

When someone hurts you, what do you really want from them? From the Canadian House of Commons to a California hospital, we go looking for the right way to say you’re sorry.  

On the eve of the midterm elections, we look at one tweak to voting that could help bring democracy back from the brink …

We decided to shake things up at the show...bear with us.

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.  

As the line between technology and humanity becomes blurrier, we wonder, are we becoming more or less human? 

When Robert Mueller released his indictment a few days ago, alleging that 13 Russian nationals colluded to disrupt the 2016 elections, we had a lot of questions.

Today, we're back with Part 2 of our questions episodes. This time, we're chasing down answers to some bigger, little questions.