The Stuff of Life
Eavesdrop on experts and researchers as they ponder what makes our world so maddening, so strange and so achingly beautiful. Not to mention ridiculous. Join Julie Douglas for this week’s episode of The Stuff of Life, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.com.
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- https://www.howstuffworks.com
- Description
- Eavesdrop on experts and researchers as they ponder what makes our world so maddening, so strange and so achingly beautiful. Not to mention ridiculous. Join Julie Douglas for this week’s episode of The Stuff of Life, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.com.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-02 20:38
- last episode published
- 2017-05-19 07:00
- publication frequency
- 14.43 days
- Contributors
- HowStuffWorks
- Author Owner
- applepodcast@howstuffworks.com (HowStuffWorks)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 35
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- Categories
- Society & Culture
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| 2017-05-19 | America, the home of rugged individualist. Or not. Each of us is connected to each other, relies on one another, gives and takes, consciously or unconsciously weaving the web of support that it takes to make a society. Let’s face it: we need each other... |
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| 2017-05-12 | In this episode we look at how we manufacture fear in the mind with a trip back in history to a psyops mission, a visit to to a haunted attraction, and a peek into the political house of horror, “Doomocracy.” |
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| 2017-05-05 | 1963 was a year of chaos and social upheaval. Sound familiar? Time, it would seem, is circular, something the American Survey of Fears proves out. |
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| 2017-04-28 | Ah, the “good ol days.” If America had its own brochure it would depict rocking chairs on front porches, pristine farms and tidy downtowns. But did this America ever exist? |
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| 2017-04-21 | Adolescence: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. |
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| 2017-04-19 | The Stuff of Life is packing up its bags and moving to Fridays. Find out why. |
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| 2017-04-12 | Some men dance, many don’t. What are the unspoken rules that govern the ways we move our body, and what does it say about our society and how we treat each other? |
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| 2017-04-05 | The antidote to being a jerk is empathy. And thankfully it appears to be hard-wired in the human brain. And yet … we’re increasingly casting off the ability to walk a mile in another person's shoes. |
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| 2017-03-29 | We all want to hit the eject button on reality and look for a different way to live our lives at one point or another. In this episode we explore ways of plotting that great escape. |
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| 2017-03-22 | In this episode we look at how anger can be clarifying, even helpful, and we find out how it can morph into its more dangerous and corrupting form, hate. |
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