The New Norm
Invisibilia, June 2016

Invisibilia is consistently the most thought-provoking, ambitious podcast to address the hidden forces shaping human behaviour. In this episode, hosts Alix Spiegel, Lulu Miller and Hanna Rosin present two outlandish, real life stories that seek to interrogate the logic of society’s unwritten rules. The first: McDonalds’ attempt to get employees in Russia to smile. The second: an initiative to teach workers on an oil rig how to cry, because showing vulnerability has been proven to create a safer work environment. Invisibilia has a knack for revealing general life lessons via particular examples. Here, both stories call us to question how sensible certain rules of social behaviour really are by showing the gains that can be made when they are consci...