The Stuff of Life

4.1 (8)
SOCIETY & CULTURE
SERIES

Eavesdrop on experts and researchers as they ponder what makes our world so maddening, so strange and so achingly beautiful. Not to mention ridiculous. Join Julie Douglas for this week’s episode of The Stuff of Life, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.com.

EPISODE 1

Broken

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum we can all agree that more than ever, the world feels broken. In this episode, we take a trip to Washington DC on the day of the inauguration and the eve of the Women’s March. And we look to Kintsugi, the

18 min
EPISODE 2

The Big Hurt: Hate & Anger

‘Anger in its time and place,’ wrote the essayist Charles Lamb, ‘May assume a kind of grace.’ We look at how anger can be clarifying, even helpful, and we find out how it can morph into its more dangerous and corrupting form, hate.

36 min
EPISODE 3

The Great Escape

We all want to hit the eject button on reality and look for a different way to live our lives at one point or another. How about through transforming yourself into another species, meditating on your existence, or just laughing your ass off?

31 min
EPISODE 4

The Empathy Wall

The antidote to being a jerk is empathy. And thankfully it appears to be hard-wired in the human brain. And yet … we’re increasingly casting off the ability to walk a mile in another person's shoes.

31 min
EPISODE 5

Men Dancing

Some men dance, many don’t. What are the unspoken rules that govern the ways we move our body, and what does it say about our society and how we treat each other?

29 min
EPISODE 6

Special Announcement: It's All Odin's Fault

The Stuff of Life is packing up its bags and moving to Fridays. Find out why.

1 min
EPISODE 7

Teen Dream

Adolescence: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

34 min
EPISODE 8

The Nostalgia Factory

Ah, the “good ol days.” If America had its own brochure it would depict rocking chairs on front porches, pristine farms and tidy downtowns. But did this America ever exist? And is thinking it did doing us some serious psychological harm?

29 min
EPISODE 9

Studies in Desperation

1963 was a year of chaos and social upheaval. Sound familiar? Time, it would seem, is circular, something the American Survey of Fears proves out.

26 min
EPISODE 10

Haunted

In this episode we look at how we manufacture fear in the mind with a trip back in history to a psyops mission, a visit to to a haunted attraction, and a peek into the political house of horror, “Doomocracy.”

29 min
EPISODE 11

Wired: As Above, So Below

America, the home of rugged individualist. Or not. Each of us is connected to each other, relies on one another, gives and takes, consciously or unconsciously weaving the web of support that it takes to make a society. Let’s face it: we need each other.

34 min

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4.1

out of 5

8 Ratings

good content

23/03/2017

flippybenhop

Good content but please someone explain to me WHY women in America have all taken on this vocal fry for presenting. My god, it's annoying !!!
Brilliant

27/03/2017

Kiwi1795

I love this podcast, it is insightful and interesting. I love the format and the host is great. Keep them coming!
I really liked this

09/10/2016

Iow Tom

Keep these going I really liked them
Good, but why the background noise?

03/04/2016

Billysdad

Having been a fan of the 'Stuff' series for many years , I was disappointed with this recent offering. I enjoyed the content but there seems to be background 'music', sound effects and general noise, it's sometimes difficult to hear what they're saying. I'm not sure whether this documentary style is to keep us more interested, but I don't think I'll be back for a while.

Eavesdrop on experts and researchers as they ponder what makes our world so maddening, so strange and so achingly beautiful. Not to mention ridiculous. Join Julie Douglas for this week’s episode of The Stuff of Life, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.com.

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iHeartPodcasts and HowStuffWorks
Episodes

35
Seasons

2
Rating

Clean
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