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Invisibilia

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About the show

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.

Latest episodes

  • New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast

    July 18, 2026 · 3 min

    In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation in the wake of George Floyd's killing. Antonio arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied…

  • "The Network" from NPR's Embedded

    July 17, 2025 · 42 min

    New from NPR's Embedded: Hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez travel across Latin America and within the U.S. to understand how women in Brazil discovered one of the medications that's used for self-managed abortions, the spread of…

  • Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded

    February 24, 2025 · 26 min

    New from NPR's Embedded: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular arguments, they decided to try…

  • Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature

    August 22, 2024 · 34 min

    We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism…

  • Tested (Ep 1): The Choice

    August 22, 2024 · 39 min

    New from NPR's Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field authorities announced…

  • The Goodbye Show

    April 27, 2023 · 50 min

    In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR…

  • Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker

    December 16, 2022 · 33 min

    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…

  • Power Tools

    October 7, 2022 · 35 min

    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…