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.
98 Available Episodes (98 Total)Average duration: 00:37:10
Mar 29, 2023
One Last Callout
00:02:30
We need your help to say goodbye.
Mar 03, 2023
It's Been A Minute: The molten center of 'The Real Housewives' multiverse
00:34:44
This week, we're running an episode from our friends at It's Been a Minute that digs into the cultural phenomenon that is Real Housewives...and why so many of us can't look away.
Jan 13, 2023
Life Kit: What's your attachment style?
00:19:30
The new year is a time to be reflective and make changes - maybe to yourself or how you relate to others. With resolutions in mind, we bring you this NPR Life Kit episode exploring what attachment styles reveal about your relationships. Reported and guest hosted by our own Kia Miakka Natisse.
Dec 16, 2022
Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker
00:32:44
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.
Oct 07, 2022
Power Tools
00:35:27
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.
Sep 30, 2022
Freedom Diving
00:33:10
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.
Sep 23, 2022
Therapy Ghostbusters
00:48:32
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.
Sep 16, 2022
A Little Bit Pregnant
00:28:19
This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?
Sep 09, 2022
The P-Word
00:42:14
Alex is a comic who feels perfectly comfortable commanding a packed, rowdy audience, but consistently submits to what other people want in everyday life. This week, a look at how uncomfortable feelings about power can backfire on ourselves and the people we love. We get the help of a power expert - a dominatrix - to untangle Alex's power dynamics, and find out what it takes to treat a power allergy.
Sep 06, 2022
Invisibilia Takes Control
00:01:40
2022 feels like walking a tightrope. We're grappling with control of our bodies, our time, the direction of our country - while trying to not spin out and just doomscroll. So this season, Invisibilia takes on control. The narratives we have about what's in or out of our control. Invisible tools of control. The crutches we use to FEEL in control but that might not be helping.
Mar 29 | 00:02:30
One Last Callout
Mar 03 | 00:34:44
It's Been A Minute: The molten center of 'The Real Housewives' multiverse
Jan 13 | 00:19:30
Life Kit: What's your attachment style?
Dec 16 | 00:32:44
Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker
Oct 07 | 00:35:27
Power Tools
Sep 30 | 00:33:10
Freedom Diving
Sep 23 | 00:48:32
Therapy Ghostbusters
Sep 16 | 00:28:19
A Little Bit Pregnant
Sep 09 | 00:42:14
The P-Word
Sep 06 | 00:01:40
Invisibilia Takes Control
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