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An immersive series of audio documentaries that focus on the forgotten corners of our minds. Beautiful sounds and stories that explore fear, curiosity and the unknown. Episode topics include crow death rituals, flesh eating beetles, internet...

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Podcasts

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An immersive series of audio documentaries that focus on the forgotten corners of our minds. Beautiful sounds and stories that explore fear, curiosity and the unknown. Episode topics include crow death rituals, flesh eating beetles, internet...

Language:

English


Episodes
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HBM Continues as an Independent Podcast

8/13/2020
However, moving forward, HBM will continue as an independent production, and no longer be distributed through the KCRW feed.

Duration:00:13:37

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HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

6/24/2020
Black Tulsans record a rap album in a house that once belonged to a famous Klansman.

Duration:00:48:11

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HBM139: Acceptable Pains

6/10/2020
Is volunteering for pain an unnecessary cruelty? Or is it a fundamental part of being human?

Duration:00:16:45

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HBM138: Did Neanderthals Bury their Dead?

5/27/2020
New research suggests that Neanderthals did many of the things once thought to be exclusively “human.”

Duration:00:30:06

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HBM137: Superhappiness

5/13/2020
David Pearce wants to end all suffering.

Duration:00:22:05

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HBM136: Jacob’s Lost Biography

4/29/2020
Jacob Lemanski tries to write an unreadable book.

Duration:00:18:53

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HBM135: Dying Well

4/15/2020
Amanda Provenzano says people are too afraid of death; that’s why she became a death doula.

Duration:00:19:28

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What Can You Hear? (Love Me)

4/8/2020
A wonderful episode of a wonderful podcast: the CBC’s Love Me. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app.

Duration:00:24:10

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HBM134: Questionable Hobbies of the Socially Isolated

4/1/2020
Jeff makes blackout poetry with cassette tapes.

Duration:00:19:50

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HBM133: Prey of Worms

3/18/2020
Is your body more of a machine, or a garden?

Duration:00:31:46

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HBM132: Moral Enhancement

3/4/2020
If there’s a pill that makes people less racist, should cops be forced to take it?

Duration:00:23:50

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HBM131: A Cure for Carsickness

2/19/2020
The smell of gasoline imparts nausea and a heartfelt nostalgia on HBM producer Bethany Denton.

Duration:00:23:57

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HBM130: Mother Pigeon / Sister Marta

2/5/2020
New York City’s defender of maligned animals enacts “pigilante” justice while dressed as a nun.

Duration:00:19:50

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HBM129: The Underearthlings

1/22/2020
Legends of an underground people on a small Baltic island.

Duration:00:27:16

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HBM128: Seeing Auras

1/8/2020
A childhood loss leads Colby Richardson to meet a man who teaches him to see his dead mother’s aura.

Duration:00:21:33

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HBM127: QALYs

12/25/2019
Would you trade a month of your life to give a decade to a stranger? What if it were four strangers? Or thirty?

Duration:00:37:14

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HBM126: Sounding the Deep

12/11/2019
Most of the ocean floor has never been mapped in detail. Some scientists are trying to change that, using sonar to see what satellites can’t.

Duration:00:16:21

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HBM125: Deepfaking Nixon

11/27/2019
How to make the president say what he never said.

Duration:00:26:22

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HBM124: Banana Softies

11/13/2019
A cancer researcher grows tired of euthanizing monkeys.

Duration:00:17:20

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HBM123: Water Witches

10/30/2019
What moves the rods of a water dowser? Is it magic, science or imagination?

Duration:00:48:34