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Invisibilia NPR
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4.5 • 51 Ratings
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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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The Goodbye Show
In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
Customer Reviews
Wisdom builder
These stories make me think harder and connect deeper with myself. I’m sure they build more wisdom in me.
Re-edited 2 years after last review
Before: It blew me away. Very well edited and informative. And the discussion is very in depth. Great job! And PLEASE keep doing this! I and my brain need it. Thanks!
Now: the quality declines so rapidly it’s unbelievable. First it’s the episode when a girl regrets on confront a much elder man who harassed her in public, thinking “I’m overreacting”. At the same time of me-too movement. When harassed women finally had the courage to speak out but still ppl attacking them for “making a scene” “just didn’t it for their career” etc. seriously invisibles why that episode at that time? Even if it’s a good story why share it now? Even after that I still stayed for your show just cuz how amazing it used to be. Now this time, it’s about empathy for incels?? I’m sure jack turned out to be “not so bad” but incel is an twisted philosophy/ideology that wants women as their property and hurt woman if they obey. It’s not about this one guy turned out to be ok in the end so everything is fine. No! It’s not significant enough to share his story. And also empathy. Yeh good start but then what? You are just gonna stop there? What’s your action? To help? To stop? To empower? Or just one useless comment with least amount of effort “I understand” to make yourself feel good and “wise”? Come on, you are invisiblia not some shallow trashy show, this is not the right depth you should go for a serious topic. Anyway, I’m so disappointed. I was a long time listening since your first episode of season 1. I loved it and recommended to all of my friends and family. I gave you a chance once but not anymore. Bye invisiblia. My empathy ends here.
One of the best podcasts available
I have nothing but good things to say about this podcast. It is thought-provoking and extremely well produced. I look forward to every episode and when a new one appears I put all the other podcasts I listen to aside. (Sorry, NPR Politics Podcast). I recommend this show to everybody.