The Stuff of Life
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. Letâs face it: we need each other.
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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, âDoomocracy.â
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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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Ah, the âgood ol days.â 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? And is thinking it did doing us some serious psychological harm?
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Adolescence: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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The Stuff of Life is packing up its bags and moving to Fridays. Find out why.
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Some men dance, many donât. 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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The antidote to being a jerk is empathy. And thankfully it appears to be hard-wired in the human brain. And yet ⊠weâre increasingly casting off the ability to walk a mile in another person's shoes.
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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. How about through transforming yourself into another species, meditating on your existence, or just laughing your ass off?
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âAnger in its time and place,â wrote the essayist Charles Lamb, âMay assume a kind of grace.â 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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No matter where you fall on the political spectrum we can all agree that more than ever, the world feels broken. In this episode, we take a trip to Washington DC on the day of the inauguration and the eve of the Womenâs March. And we look to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken things, to find out how to mend ourselves.
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