Episodes

  • Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature

    Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature
    Aug 22 2024
    We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism resulted in the first policies requiring sex testing. Tested is a six-part series, you can binge all the episodes now in the Embedded podcast and the CBC feed.

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    34 mins
  • Tested (Ep 1): The Choice

    Tested (Ep 1): The Choice
    Aug 22 2024
    New from NPR's Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field authorities announced new regulations that mean some women can't compete in the female category unless they lower their body's naturally occurring testosterone levels. You'll meet one of those runners, Christine Mboma, a reigning Olympic silver medalist, and hear about the difficult choice she faces. Tested is a six-part series, you can binge all the episodes now in the Embedded podcast and the CBC feed.

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    39 mins
  • The Goodbye Show

    The Goodbye Show
    Apr 27 2023
    In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.

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    50 mins
  • Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker

    Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker
    Dec 16 2022
    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.

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    33 mins
  • Power Tools

    Power Tools
    Oct 7 2022
    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.

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    35 mins
  • Freedom Diving

    Freedom Diving
    Sep 30 2022
    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.

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    33 mins
  • Therapy Ghostbusters

    Therapy Ghostbusters
    Sep 23 2022
    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.

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    48 mins
  • A Little Bit Pregnant

    A Little Bit Pregnant
    Sep 16 2022
    This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?

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    28 mins