The 8 Best Social Science Podcasts
A list of the Best Social Science Podcasts handpicked by our community on Podyssey.
Last Updated: Dec 28th, 2021
1. Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.
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When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
49:05 | Feb 13th, 2018
21 RECOMMENDATIONS
Marriage is hard — and there are signs it's becoming even harder. This week on Hidden Brain, we examine how long-term relationships have changed over time, and whether we might be able to improve marr...Show More
2. Invisibilia
Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.
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52:13 | Apr 12th, 2019
21 RECOMMENDATIONS
Invisibilia is a show that runs on empathy. We believe in it. But are we right? In this episode, we'll let you decide. We tell the same story twice in order to examine the questions: who deserves our ...Show More
3. TED Radio Hour
Exploring the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Host Manoush Zomorodi inspires us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves.Get more brainy miscellany with TED Radio Ho...Show More
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52:27 | Dec 1st, 2017
11 RECOMMENDATIONS
Sometimes, being truthful can be uncomfortable — even risky. But can radical honesty and openness change things for the better? This hour, TED speakers take transparency all the way to its limit. Gues...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4. On Being with Krista Tippett
A season of big, new, beautiful On Being conversations is here. Adventures into what can replenish and orient us in this wild ride of a time to be alive: biomimicry and the science of awe; spiritual contrarianism and social creativity; pause and poet...Show More
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Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath
51:25 | Apr 30th, 2020
9 RECOMMENDATIONS
Krista interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong on March 8 in a joyful room full of podcast makers at On Air Fest in Brooklyn. None of us would have guessed that within a handful of days such an event would...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5. On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stori...Show More
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49:19 | Apr 29th, 2022
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
After news broke that Elon Musk is likely to purchase Twitter later this year, the billionaire began sharing a controversial vision for the app. On this week’s On the Media, hear why Musk’s plan to tu...Show More
6. Rough Translation
How are the things we're talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world? Gregory Warner tells stories that follow familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory. At a time when the world seems small but it's as hard as ever to escape ...Show More
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34:07 | Sep 30th, 2020
16 RECOMMENDATIONS
How does India's caste system play out in the hiring practices of Silicon Valley? And what happens when dominant caste people in the U.S. grapple with their own inherited privilege for the first time?
7. Mysterious Universe
Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy as they investigate the latest in futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.
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1:52:25 | Nov 3rd, 2017
1 RECOMMENDATION
After discussing the latest in genetic advances, the future of IVF manipulation, new Giza discoveries, and the fried chicken bath bomb we are joined by experienced Theosophist Pedro Oliveira. Oliveira...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8. EconTalk
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosop...Show More
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Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of Economics
1:33:36 | Nov 9th, 2020
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best know...Show More
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