» Therapy, with Friends
11/04/21 17:07 from Invisibilia
Would you ever consider going to therapy with a friend?Two best friends who call themselves brothers were drifting apart, so they asked psychotherapist Esther Perel to help — and we listened in. This episode was recorded in collaboration...

» 09/24/21 PHD comic: '...Said No Academic Ever.'
09/27/21 03:04 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " ...Said No Academic Ever. " - originally published 9/24/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!

» Proposed $7 billion Purdue settlement advances; leaves Sacklers exposed
06/20/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog

» Back When I Was Older
10/25/19 03:03 from Invisibilia
As a parent, what do you do when your four-year-old starts telling you about memories that can't possibly be his? Memories that he says are from a past life?

» 10/22/21 PHD comic: 'Current Status'
10/25/21 05:09 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " Current Status " - originally published 10/22/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!

» Freedom Diving
09/30/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
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...

» Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature
08/22/24 12:21 from Invisibilia
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 resul...

» Archiving an Island Nation: The Maldives Government Web Archive
04/02/25 09:00 from The Signal
In this interview, Charlotte Giles discusses the Maldives Government Web Archive — how it was created, what it preserves, and why it is an important addition to the Library’s Asian Division. She shares examples of how the arc...

» The P-Word
09/09/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
Alex is a comic who feels perfectly comfortable commanding a packed, rowdy audience, but consistently submits to what other people want in everyday life. This week, a look at how uncomfortable feelings about power can backfire on ourselv...

» Nun of Us Are Friends
09/23/21 15:16 from Invisibilia
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 g...

» The Chaos Machine: Wrathful Lord
05/06/21 14:40 from Invisibilia
The man behind 209 Times is not who you'd expect. In Part 2, co-host Yowei Shaw discovers the website's surprising origin story, and ends up at the frontlines of a revolt against the mainstream media and a fight over who gets to own the ...

» Documenting Industry in a Changing World: Inside the Industry Associations Web Archive
04/30/25 09:00 from The Signal
In this interview, Natalie Burclaff describes the Industry Associations Web Archive and the variety of content it preserves. She also offers insights into the challenges of curating the collection and explains why it serves as a crucial ...

» The Friendship Season
09/14/21 11:53 from Invisibilia
Friendship gets the Invisibilia treatment.

» The Last Sound
03/08/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
Bernie Krause was a successful musician as a young man, playing with rock stars like Jim Morrison and George Harrison in the 1960s and '70s. But then one day, Bernie heard a sound unlike anything he'd ever encountered and it completely o...

» The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2
12/14/23 20:01 from anthro{dendum}
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but really something that we’d been talking about for the past few years. Back in 2021 we al...

» U.S. Forest Service chief says it is ready for fire season; some staff disagree
06/17/25 12:45 from The Rural Blog

» Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker
12/15/22 21:01 from Invisibilia
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 ...

» Announcing Anywhere Adventures Locations
03/31/25 09:05 from The Signal
The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois, who currently lives in Seattle. This is the second blog post in a series following Vivian’s pr...

» Helene flooded an Appalachian town’s Post Office; residents are fighting to get it reopened.
06/06/25 11:35 from The Rural Blog

» Eat The Rich
04/22/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Invisibilia explores a social experiment with money, focused around a contentious topic: reparations. What happens when you demand white people give up their wealth?

» Marketing Is a Code Word
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Marketing is a go-to solution but sometimes masks deeper issues.

» Trump pauses raids on farms, service businesses, but many sweeps continue
06/17/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog

» Analysis: Consumer utility bills may climb as data centers get special deals
06/20/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog

» The Chaos Machine: A Looping Revolt
05/13/21 15:52 from Invisibilia
Is 209 Times helping or hurting the community it claims to serve? What does the site mean for the future of local news in America? And what can be done about it? In the final installment of "The Chaos Machine" series , Yowei finds hersel...

» The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
12/05/23 18:26 from anthro{dendum}
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In short, there aren’t too many these days. This is due to what w...

» The Digital Learning Summit at Notre Dame as Template for Academic Convenings
04/04/23 21:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Seven ingredients for gathering well.

» Collections Digitization Enhances Access: An Interview with Hanna Fogle
04/10/25 10:04 from The Signal
Today’s blog post is an interview with Hanna Fogle, a 2024-25 Librarian-in-Residence here at the Library of Congress. Carlyn: Hi Hanna, could you tell us a bit about what you do as a Librarian-in-Residence (LIR)? How would you explain yo...

» The Chaos Machine: An Endless Hole
04/29/21 18:47 from Invisibilia
Yowei gets a tip about Russian trolls in Stockton, California and falls down a hole of swirling conspiracy theories. At the center is a scrappy, controversial website that has become one of the most popular sources of local news in town....

» The Goodbye Show
04/27/23 18:40 from Invisibilia
In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.

» Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
12/04/23 18:17 from anthro{dendum}
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work. I tried to take an open approach with it all to try to head off any potential pro...

» Microgrant deadline extended for reporting on opioid settlement funds
06/17/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog

» National Weather Service hiring to cover field offices left shorthanded after DOGE cuts
06/06/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog

» Tested (Ep 1): The Choice
08/22/24 11:48 from Invisibilia
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 announc...

» Sunset
12/13/23 07:25 from anthro{dendum}
Dear readers, We are sorry to say that after eighteen years, we are going to be shutting down this blog at the end of the year. We will write a longer farewell post later on, but we wanted to announce that we are closing this site and pr...

» Season 6 Trailer
03/02/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
You hear the train barreling towards you and you're tied to the tracks. It's an impossible situation. Most people would panic, and then a tiny handful would think up improbable workarounds. This season on Invisibilia: inventors in desper...

» The Talk of the Office
04/05/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Reckoning with a reckoning.

» Why Worry?
04/05/23 12:26 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
8 reasons to worry about higher education’s future.

» WSJ EDITORIAL: Ukraine's drone attack is a 'wake-up call' to U.S. about potential vulnerability
06/06/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog

» An Unlikely Superpower
03/27/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
What if you had a superpower that allowed you to see part of the world that was to come? At the age of 60, a Scottish woman named Joy Milne discovers she has a biological gift that allows her to see things that will happen in the future ...

» There and back again
12/31/23 15:38 from anthro{dendum}
It’s fitting that I’m writing my last post for this site in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, where I’d did all my doctoral fieldwork. That was back between 2009-2012. I joined the previous incarnation of this site, Savage Minds, after a guest bloggin...

» Cooling off from summer sizzle will cost nearly 4% more this year
06/17/25 12:40 from The Rural Blog

» The Reluctant Immortalist
03/16/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
Daniel Martinez discovered the unthinkable: a creature that breaks one of the most fundamental laws of life. In the wake of his discovery--which has been widely confirmed by the scientific community--all kinds of people have thrown thems...

» Two Heartbeats A Minute
04/10/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
The strange story of an unlikely crew of people who band together to take on one of our largest problems using nothing but whale sounds, machine learning, and a willingness to think outside the box. Even stranger, several of the world's ...

» Season 7: New Stories. New Hosts.
04/19/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Invisibilia is back! Stories that help you see the world differently, with new hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw.

» What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2025
05/29/25 11:44 from The Signal
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across ...

» Caring Across Distance—One Call at a Time
06/04/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist explores how a phone call home may seem simple but carries layers of meaning for migrating nurses and… The post Caring Across Distance—One Call at a Time appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Parents of agriculture graduate ready to 'turn her loose' on their 4,500-acre farm
06/17/25 12:35 from The Rural Blog

» The Great Narrative Escape
05/20/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Imagine a TV show with no plot, no characters, no tension... and yet, it went viral! In this episode, we have a story that questions storytelling as we know it. Plus, co-hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw take a spectacularly unspec...

» Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded
02/24/25 11:05 from Invisibilia
New from NPR's Embedded : Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular arguments, they decided to tr...

» The Profile
09/20/19 03:03 from Invisibilia
A mysterious profile pops up on a dating app - leading to a bubble of chaos and confusion. A story about trying to sort fact versus fiction, how destabilizing that can be, and a very strange confrontation with the truth. NOTE: Since this...