Invisibilia


Invisibilia is a radio program and podcast currently produced and hosted by Alix Spiegel and Hanna Rosin for National Public Radio. Previous seasons were also hosted by Lulu Miller. The show debuted in early 2015, and "explores the intangible forces that shape human behavior—things like ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions." The program's title comes from Latin, meaning "all the invisible things". The Guardian ranked Invisibilia among "the 10 best new podcasts of 2015."

Background

Alix Spiegel was a founding producer of This American Life and freelanced for NPR's Science Desk covering psychology and human behavior. At Chicago's Third Coast International Audio Festival, Spiegel met former Radiolab producer Lulu Miller and asked her to co-produce a piece she was working on. The two began collaborating on radio stories and conceived of a new long-form program that would become Invisibilia. The show's first six-episode season aired from January to February 2015, with excerpts occasionally running on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Radiolab and This American Life. This extra exposure and Miller and Spiegel's track record helped Invisibilia debut at #1 on the iTunes podcast chart and to maintain a consistent top-ten ranking in the months following its launch. Hanna Rosin from The Atlantic joined as cohost for the second season, which premiered in June 2016 and ran for seven episodes. The third season debuted in June 2017 with Spiegel and Rosin as hosts.

Episodes

Season 1

  1. The Secret History of Thoughts
  2. Fearless
  3. How to Become Batman
  4. Entanglement
  5. The Power of Categories
  6. Our Computers Our Selves

    Season 2

  7. The New Norm
  8. The Personality Myth
  9. The Problem with the Solution
  10. Frame of Reference
  11. Flip the Script
  12. The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes
  13. Outside In

    Season 3

  14. Emotions
  15. Reality
  16. The Culture Inside
  17. Future Self
  18. True You

    Season 4

  19. I, I, I. Him
  20. The Other Real World
  21. What Was Not Said
  22. The Pattern Problem
  23. Everything Good
  24. The Callout

    Season 5

  25. The Fifth Vital Sign
  26. Post, Shoot
  27. The Weatherman
  28. The Remote Control Brain
  29. A Very Offensive Rom-Com
  30. The End of Empathy
  31. KraftLand
  32. The Profile
  33. Rough Translation: Liberté, Égalité and French Fries
  34. Back When I Was Older
  35. Love and Lapses
  36. How A Machine Can Predict Who You Click with.

    Season 6

  37. Two Heartbeats a Minute
  38. The Confrontation
  39. An Unlikely Superpower
  40. White v. White?
  41. The Reluctant Immortalist
  42. The Last Sound