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museums

Podcast: Freud Museum London

Lie back on what might be the world's most famous psychoanalytic couch.
The Podcast Team February 1, 2023
haunted

The Psychology Behind Why Identical Twins Inspire Fascination—and Fear

A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
Sarah Durn November 22, 2022
haunted

Why Horror Is So Damned Fun

We go inside Denmark’s Recreational Fear Lab to learn why our brains crave a good scare.
Samir S. Patel October 26, 2022
haunted

The Spooky Science of Why Mirrors Can Freak Us Out So Much

We reflect on what these shiny surfaces reveal, from the curse of Narcissus to an experiment you can try at home—if you dare.
Kate Golembiewski October 14, 2022
islands

Can You Be Addicted to Travel?

An exploration of wanderlust, compulsive curiosity, and the world’s most traveled persons.
Dave Seminara July 20, 2021
archaeology

The Mystery of Neolithic Slovakia's Rotating Villages

It’s hard to think straight when your brain is asymmetric.
Isaac Schultz February 5, 2020
signs

Meet the Mechanical Engineer Whose Signature Is Instagram Famous in Manitoba

For the past decade, every elevator in the Canadian province has been graced by Cheryl Lashek's name.
Sarah Lawrynuik May 1, 2019
medicine

The French Conquest of Algeria Was Sick With Nostalgia

The long, dark, painful history of an everyday emotion.
Matthew Taub December 21, 2018
food

How to Sell a $300 Chocolate Bar

Follow the wine playbook.
Ximena N. Larkin February 16, 2018
food

The Power of Circles in Food and Drink

Humans consistently associate roundness with sweetness.
Paula Mejia January 18, 2018
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Images of the Unconscious Museum

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.
science

The Secret Chord That Makes Pop Music Sound Happy

The musical formula for good vibrations.
Natasha Frost November 15, 2017
monkeys

Rhesus Monkeys See Faces in Objects, Just Like We Do

Yes, that coffee does look a bit like a face.
Natasha Frost August 28, 2017
toys

Quit Worrying, Fidget Toys Have Been Around Forever

A spin through anxiety gadgets, from worry beads to Baoding balls.
Ali Jaffe June 5, 2017
politics

A Psychic Healer Tried to Hypnotize Soviets to Distract From the Fall of Communism

Pay no attention to the man behind the Iron Curtain.
Sarah Laskow May 23, 2017
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Villa Freud

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.
victorian

The Victorian Belief That a Train Ride Could Cause Instant Insanity

"Railway madmen" were thought to be activated by the sounds and motion of train travel.
Joseph Hayes May 12, 2017
Milledgeville, Georgia

Central State Hospital

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.