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Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.

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    • 4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.

    The Goodbye Show

    The Goodbye Show

    In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.

    • 50 min
    Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker

    Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker

    Sometimes the holidays are filled with the people you love. Other times, they're marked by an absence. In this special holiday episode, new Code Switch co-host and former Invisibilia producer B.A. Parker tells a story about family, loss and preserving memories before it's too late. Then Parker joins Kia and Yowei to reflect on the making of this story, and what it means to her now.

    • 32 min
    Power Tools

    Power Tools

    Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw seeks answers from a power researcher and a union organizer.

    • 34 min
    Freedom Diving

    Freedom Diving

    After months of working from home and retreating from the world, Kia Miakka Natisse is stuck - in her house, and in her head. In an attempt to break out of the funk, she's searching for wisdom at the bottom of the ocean with South Africa's first Black freediving instructor, Zandile Ndhlovu.

    • 32 min
    Therapy Ghostbusters

    Therapy Ghostbusters

    In San Jose, California, a community clinic was stumped as to why their clients were seeing ghosts. This week, a story about grappling with ghosts of our past and one clinic's attempt to heal intergenerational trauma.

    • 47 min
    A Little Bit Pregnant

    A Little Bit Pregnant

    This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?

    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
2.2K Ratings

2.2K Ratings

Em.hau98 ,

This podcast has me captivated

This podcast is one of my favourites, I love how it flows, I love the hosts, topics and the moments of non zen. Super intriguing, interesting and mind opening.

Neonsally ,

What happened?

The first seasons of invisibilia were mind bending, soul searching, the best kind of podcast made. It was amazing! I don’t know what happened but the last season has slipped. And now rebroadcasting other shows reviews of Real Housewives??? I’m super disappointed and just hanging on hoping in my heart that the production level will come back to what it was at the beginning. That being said, if you are reading this wondering if you should listen, def start at the beginning episodes and work your way to present, the first seasons are absolutely spell binding.

Holyloholy ,

Thank god for change in hosts

Alix and hannah are both extremely brute and entitled “journalists” who make belittling comments to those who they’re interviewing. They also have really annoying voices. Thank god that they don’t host the later episodes. The topics are very social and interesting, so this podcast gets 4 stars

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