The Stuff of Life
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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.

Wired: As Above, So Below

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 uncon...
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Haunted

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, an...
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Studies in Desperation

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. Lea...
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The Nostalgia Factory

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 th...
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Teen Dream

Adolescence: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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Men Dancing

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...
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The Empathy Wall

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 a...
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The Great Escape

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 ...
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The Big Hurt: Hate & Anger

‘Anger in its time and place,’ wrote the essayist Charles Lamb, ‘May assume a kind of grace.’ We look at how anger can be clarifying, even helpful, an...
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