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Invisibilia

Invisibilia

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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.Copyright 2014-2025 NPR - For Personal Use Only Best of 2025 Science Social Sciences
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  • "The Network" from NPR's Embedded

    "The Network" from NPR's Embedded
    Jul 17 2025
    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 this method across the world, and how this approach is shaping the future of abortion in the U.S.

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    42 mins
  • Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded

    Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded
    Feb 24 2025
    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 something new, an attempt to pull each other out of the spell each of them thinks the other is under. Can one family live in two realities?

    This is episode 1 of a three-part series. To hear the rest, head to NPR's Embedded podcast.

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

    Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature
    Aug 22 2024
    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 resulted in the first policies requiring sex testing. Tested is a six-part series, you can binge all the episodes now in the Embedded podcast and the CBC feed.

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    34 mins
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