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Play It Again And Again, Sam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH45A6ek45s A couple of years ago, music psychologist Elizabeth Margulis decided to make some alterations to the music of Luciano Berio . Berio was one of the most...

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Mind Over Milkshake: How Your Thoughts Fool Your Stomach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIfhxt0JCok It was late, almost 9 at night, when Justin Holden pulled the icy pizza box from the refrigerator at the Brookville Supermarket in Washington, D.C. He stood...

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How A Woman's Plan To Kill Herself Helped Her Family Grieve

This story is in no way an endorsement of suicide. It's a description of one woman's choice and what came of it. Five years ago, after doctors told her that she had Alzheimer's disease that would...

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The Secret History Behind The Science Of Stress

The modern idea of stress began on a rooftop in Canada, with a handful of rats freezing in the winter wind. This was 1936 and by that point the owner of the rats, an endocrinologist named Hans Selye,...

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Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests

One Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. Their goal was love, or maybe sex, or maybe some combination of the two. They were there for speed dating. The...

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What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits

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By Making A Game Out Of Rejection, A Man Conquers Fear

Fear is one of the strongest and most basic of human emotions, and it's the focus of Fearless, the second episode of Invisibilia , NPR's new show on the invisible forces that shape human behavior. This...

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By Impersonating Her Mom, A Comedian Grows Closer To Her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZnJJMoPE1w In this episode of Invisibilia, NPR's new show about human behavior, we wanted to explore entanglements: the invisible ways we're entangled with each other....

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To Conquer Fear, A Man Turns Rejection Into A Game

Editor's note: This story first ran on Jan. 16, 2015 , as part of NPR's Invisibilia podcast. It's about a man who decided he no longer wanted to be ruled by fear. Without realizing it, he used a...

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Invisibilia: Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mWc1Y2dpmY Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the latest episode of the Invisibilia podcast and program, which is broadcast on participating public radio stations....

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Invisibilia: An Experiment Helps One Woman See The World In A New Way

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now a story from the new season of our program Invisibilia. It's about a woman who participated in an experiment. It gave her a whole new frame...

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What An Hour Of Emotion Makes Visible

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the latest episode of the Invisibilia podcast and program, which is broadcast on participating public radio stations. Until she was 54 years old, Kim was totally...

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She Offered The Robber A Glass Of Wine, And That Flipped The Script

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWseEycdXS8 This week's Invisibilia podcast and show explore what happens when people flip the script, responding to situations in ways that are completely unexpected....

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Invisibilia: A Man Finds An Explosive Emotion Locked In A Word

Welcome to Invisibilia Season 3! The NPR program and podcast explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior, and we here at Shots are joining in to probe the often tenuous line between...

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Eager To Burst His Own Bubble, A Techie Made Apps To Randomize His Life

This week, the podcast and show Invisibilia examines the nature of reality, with a Silicon Valley techie who created apps to randomize his life, a psychologist who trains herself to experience the...

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How Much Can A Vision Of Your 'Future Self' Motivate You To Achieve?

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit NOEL KING, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia started a new season this summer examining the forces that shape who we are and who we will become. Today, Invisibilia co-host...

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Invisibilia: Inspired By 'American Idol,' Somali TV Show Aimed To Change The...

Welcome to Invisibilia Season 4! The NPR program and podcast explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior, and we here at Goats and Soda are joining in for the podcast's look at how a...

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Invisibilia: They Risked Their Lives To Bring Music Back

Welcome to Invisibilia Season 4! The NPR program and podcast explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior, and we here at Goats and Soda are joining in for the podcast's look at how a...

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Invisibilia: For Some Teens With Debilitating Pain, The Treatment Is More Pain

Update 3/13/2019: This story has been updated throughout to include more context that we believe is of service to readers, specifically information about the state of research into pediatric chronic...

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Are We Ready For An Implant That Can Change Our Moods?

Our thoughts and fears, movements and sensations all arise from the electrical blips of billions of neurons in our brain. Streams of electricity flow through neural circuits to govern these actions of...

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