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Radiolab (New York Public Radio)

Radiolab

Since 2002, Radiolab has been devoted to investigating a strange world.

Teacher's Recommended Episodes
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"Juicervose" A family with an autistic son walks us through his evolution from mostly uncommunicative to chatty and nearly independent man -- achieved by parroting Disney movies.
Bringing Gamma Back A new discovery: prodding the brain with light, a group of scientists were able to turn back on a part of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
Object Anyway (More Perfect) Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - Object Anyway - On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse
Mirror Mirror Changing one's hair part and entirely change the way people view us because what we see isn't what others see.
The Girl Who Doesn't Exist In today’s episode, we meet a young woman from Texas, born and raised, who can’t prove that she exists.
Playing God When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god?
The Buried Bodies Case How far should lawyers go to provide the best defense to the worst people? A murder mystery story…
K-poparazzi K-poparazzi - In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break.
The Fix Addiction … and the pills that just might set free those who suffer from it.
Eye in the Sky Eye in the Sky - Ross McNutt has a superpower — he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve crimes in a shutter-flash. But should he?
60 Words How one sentence -- just 60 words written in the hours after the September 11 attacks -- became the legal foundation for the "war on terror."
Neither Confirm Nor Deny Neither Confirm Nor Deny - How a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has hounded journalists and lawyers for 40 years and embodies the tension between the public’s desire for transparency and the government’s need to keep secrets.
What's Up, Doc? What's Up, Doc?- Mel Blanc was known as "the man of 1,000 voices," but the actual number may have been closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Barney Rubble -- all Mel. His characters made him one of the most beloved men in America, and they may have also saved his life.
Seeing in the Dark Seeing in the Dark - John and Zoltan are both blind, but they deal with the world in completely different ways -- one paints vivid pictures in his mind, while the other refuses to picture anything at all. In this short, they argue about the truth of a world they can't see.
Inside "Ouch!" Pain is a fundamental part of life, and often a very lonely part. Doctors want to understand their patients' pain, and we all want to understand the suffering of our friends, relatives, or spouses. But pinning down another person's hurt is a slippery business.
23 Weeks 6 Days When Kelley Benham and her husband Tom French finally got pregnant, after many attempts and a good deal of technological help, everything was perfect. Until it wasn't. Their story raises questions that, until recently, no parent had to face… and that are still nearly impossible to answer.

Invisibilia - NPR (National Public Radio) Podcasts

Invisibilia

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

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How to Become Batman This episode is about Daniel Kish, a blind man who can "see" by clicking like a bat. Kish believes that the blind don't reach their full sense potential because they rely too much on those that care for them.
Fearless Fearless - Half of this episode is about a woman with a calcified amygdala who doesn't feel fear. The other half of the episode explores why people have a fear of snakes: the way they move. And finally, the last part is about how human can actually smell fear.
The Personality Myth This episode tacks an age old question: what makes us, us over time? The main story is about a man in prison and how he completely changed himself for the better. However, people still don't perceive him as a changed person. One psychologist tells us that who we are depends on our environment
Entanglement Entanglement - This is an episode I found insane, but captivating. Part of the episode is about a woman who has Mirror Touch Synestesia. She is an empath to an extreme where she physically and mentally feel other people and their emotions. She can't even eat with her family because it feels like they are shoving food in her mouth.
The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes This episode is about the affect clothes have on the way others see you. One story is about a guy named Cas that started wearing sunglasses when he was young to stop the bullies. Surprisingly enough, it worked. Another story was about the work of Professor Adam Galinsky. His experiment asked the question if wearing a doctor's white coat increased performance.
The Problem with the Solution This episode is about how humans look for solutions to all problems. This episode of Invisibilia begs the question if all problems need to be solved. The NPR reporters talk to people in a small town in Belgium where families take in mentally ill patients. Instead of trying to fix them, they coexist with them.
Flip the Script In this episode, Invisibilia explores "noncomplementary behavior", which is shown best by the first segment of the episode: a robber shows up to a small gathering and makes a fuss. One of the people at the party offers the robber a glass of wine. They talk to him for a little bit, then he leaves peacefully. One of the main stories for this episode is how the police in one small town in Europe stopped Muslim teenagers from going to Syria by treating them with kindness.

The Psychology Podcast

The Psychology Podcast
talks "...with inspiring and thought-provoking guests who will stimulate your mind, and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in. Hopefully, we’ll also get a glimpse into human possibility! "

Other NPR Podcasts

Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections – and injects soundscapes and conversations that bring these ideas to life.

The Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves.Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

You Are Not So Smart (Boing Boing Network)

You Are Not So Smart

"The central theme of You Are Not So Smart is that you are unaware of how unaware you are. There is an old-and-still-growing body of research across several disciplines with findings that suggest you have little idea why you act or think the way you do. Despite this, you continue to create narratives to explain your own feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and these narratives – no matter how inaccurate – become the story of your life."

Selected Episodes
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Tribal Psychology In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, we spend time with political scientist Lilliana Mason and psychologist Dan Kahan, two researchers exploring how our tribal tendencies are scrambling public discourse and derailing so many of our best efforts at progress — from science communication, to elections, to our ability to converge on the truth and go about the grind of building a better democracy.
The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind [Backfire Effect, part 1 of 4] In this episode, we explore ]the Backfire Effect's] neurological underpinning as two neuroscientists at the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute explain how their latest research sheds new light on how the brain reacts when its deepest beliefs are challenged.
Memory Illusions Julia Shaw’s research demonstrates the fact that there is no reason to believe a memory is more accurate just because it is vivid or detailed. Actually, that’s a potentially dangerous belief.
Why We are Unaware of How Unaware We Are [Dunning-Kruger effect, with David Dunning] https://youarenotsosmart.com/2016/04/08/072-why-we-are-unaware-of-how-unaware-we-are/
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When you are unskilled yet unaware, you often experience what is now known in psychology as the Dunning-Kruger effect, a psychological phenomenon that arises sometimes in your life because you are generally very bad at self-assessment.
Naive Realism [with Lee Ross] In psychology they call thinking that you see the world as it truly is, free from bias or the limitations of your senses, naive realism. According to our guest in this episode, famed psychologist Lee Ross, naive realism also leads you to believe you arrived at your opinions, political or otherwise, after careful, rational analysis through unmediated thoughts and perceptions. In other words, you think you have been mainlining pure reality for years, and like Gandalf studying ancient texts, your intense study of the bare facts is what has naturally led to your conclusions.
The Science of Misremembering Constructed and false memories. With Julia Shaw and Dan Simons.
Enclothed Cognition In this episode of the YANSS Podcast we explore enclothed cognition, and I interview one of the researchers who discovered the phenomenon. Hajo Adam, a professor of management and researcher at Rice University’s School of Business, explains how he and Adam Galinsky, a business professor at Columbia University, conducted the studies that showed people wearing lab coats perform better on tests of mental ability than people wearing street clothes.
Blind Insight Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Ryan Scott, a cognitive psychologist who is adding to a growing body of evidence revealing that our guesses and our confidence in those guesses don’t come from the same place in our minds, and separate still is our conscious awareness of these loops of thought feeding forward and back upon each other.
How Search Engines Make Us Feel We Are Smarter than We Are The more you use Google, it seems, the smarter you feel without it. In this episode we explore what happens when a human mind becomes aware that it can instantly, on-command, at any time, search for an answer to any question, and then, most of time, find it.

Psychology: Psychology Podcasts