84 episodes
Invisibilia NPR
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4.9 • 19 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
Daring to push boundaries
Invisibilia dares to be vulnerable in their exploration and search to raise questions and seek answers. They don't profess to be experts, but they do engage experts of their field on the show and some may offer a perspective or opinion that not everyone may agree with. But that's what the show is all about - when you try to make sense of a theory or something intangible you're taking risks, in the form of a backlash or people not agreeing. And any show that dares be that vulnerable in its journey to make great stories is one to admire. I love listening to the show for the perspective it offers. Many of the topics have the ability to make us think about our own lives and how we can interact positively with people. Thank you Invisibilia for the work that you do!
Interesting and fact based
At last! A podcast based on facts and not just personal rants. Need to improve the audio quality of some of the audio when talking to the experts via phone.