
80 episodes

Invisibilia NPR
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4.5 • 21.1K 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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Uncomfortable with power? Tell us about it!
Invisibilia is seeking stories about discomfort with power. Stories about leaders denying their power, organizations with supposedly flat power structures and invisible hierarchies, or personal relationships with difficult power dynamics. If you have a story about power – at a workplace, in a band, on a high school basketball team, etc... – send a short summary with the subject line – POWER – to invisibiliamail@npr.org. The deadline is March 11th.
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Therapy, with Friends
Would you ever consider going to therapy with a friend?Two best friends who call themselves brothers were drifting apart, so they asked psychotherapist Esther Perel to help — and we listened in. This episode was recorded in collaboration with Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel and a companion episode can be heard on her podcast.
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Poop Friends
Sh*t happens. So why is it so hard to talk about? This week, the ways that poop divides and binds us in our friendships.
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Friends with Benefits
A lot of us think that it's a bad idea to get physical with friends. We worry it'll get messy, maybe even ruin the friendship. But if physical intimacy between friends weren't so taboo, what could our friendships look like? In this episode, we explore the gray zone of sex and friendship, following a man who deliberately kept his friendships with women hazy and now wants to apologize, and a pair of BFFs who became close through sex.
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International Friend of Mystery
You know the old saying--keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell the difference? In this episode, the story of two friends who got caught up in a Top Secret operation that tested their assumptions about trust, betrayal, loyalty, and power.
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Nun of Us Are Friends
It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a summer program with unusual rules. What do we lose and what do we gain when we give up our preferences and try to make friends with everyone equally?
Customer Reviews
Always been a fan and love the new hosts!
The hosts are smart and funny, and the stores they tell have been great. Loved the friends’ therapy- who can’t relate to that?
New hosts took great show and ruined it
This podcast was amazing before the new hosts took over.It is one thing to take a Podcast in new direction, it is another thing to do a 180 and change the core of the show completely. They should’ve given the new hosts a new podcast completely instead of running a great one into the ground.
Renewed
I used to listen to this pod sometimes and I liked the original hosts. I’ve picked it back up and now I LOVE it! I think the new hosts are fantastic and I’m really liking what they’ve done with it. Avid listener now