Nun of Us Are Friends
Invisibilia23 Syys 2021

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?

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A Very Offensive Rom-Com

A Very Offensive Rom-Com

A young woman discovers a pattern in her dating habits that disturbs her - a pattern that challenges her very conception of who she is and what she believes in. The realization sets her off on a quest...

5 Huhti 201958min

The Remote Control Brain

The Remote Control Brain

What would it be like if you could control your mood with a hand held device? Literally turn the device to different settings and make yourself happier and sadder? Alix Spiegel talks to a woman who ha...

29 Maalis 201944min

The Weatherman

The Weatherman

In this episode of Invisibilia, we explore our relationship with uncertainty through the eyes of a chief meteorologist. We wonder: what do you do when you don't know what to do? And how do we handle i...

22 Maalis 201940min

Post, Shoot

Post, Shoot

What is the relationship between the version of you that lives online and the one that walks around the earth? We think of our online selves as shadow versions of us which we can control. But in this ...

15 Maalis 201950min

The Fifth Vital Sign

The Fifth Vital Sign

We look at how our culture's massive effort to address pain has paradoxically increased it. And we follow one young girl as she struggles through a bizarre and extreme treatment program. NOTE: The tre...

8 Maalis 201959min

Season 5 Trailer

Season 5 Trailer

This moment in our culture can feel fraught. From 'fake news' to the opioid crisis, there's a lot of uncertainty about the future. So this season, Invisibilia helps you discern truth from fiction, cur...

4 Maalis 20191min

BONUS: Youth Radio Girl Mystery

BONUS: Youth Radio Girl Mystery

Years ago, producer Yowei Shaw taught high school students how to make radio. And in one of her classes, something bizarre happened with one of her students, something that she's never been able to ma...

21 Joulu 201831min

BONUS: The Prayer

BONUS: The Prayer

Five years ago, Leena Sanzgiri was living her childhood dream... New York city apartment, job at Vogue, and a boyfriend she planned to marry. Until the July day she woke up in the hospital, and everyt...

7 Joulu 201813min

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