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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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    • 4.7 • 160 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

4.7 out of 5
160 Ratings

160 Ratings

Holly of NZ ,

Uplifting, Thought-Provoking & Cleverly Executed

One of my favourite things to do is go for a walk somewhere surrounded by nature and listen to an episode of Invisibilia. An extremely clever podcast which is engaging and thought provoking. I end each episode feeling somehow connected to the people interviewed and strangely uplifted despite the often heavy content. Thank you for this podcast and please don’t ever stop making episodes!

kiwi opinion ,

Gone woke

Disappointed that this podcast has gone woke, because is has really great ideas and is very interesting subjects. Unfortunately it has become woke and ideologically driven. :(

Kuskuski ,

Great podcast

I love these episodes. Especially the ones with a cultural basis. Love to know how other cultures work or how some situations arise in other countries and how various groups of people deal with them.

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