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Unusual Practice (UP) explores the human condition through science, spirituality, culture, and consciousness.
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Algorithm Personality Disorder (opens the original)
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You didn't choose your apartment. Or your skincare routine. Or the restaurant you're about to book. Something else did, and it's been running the same script on millions of people at the exact same time, while convincing every one of them it was their idea. This week: the mechanism behind why everyone suddenly looks, talks, and lives the same... and the one uncomfortable question that tells you how much of "you" is actually left underneath it. Visit our hub: https://unusualpractice.carrd.co Othe
5 Psychology 'Facts' You Believe That Are Completely Wrong: How a Lie Becomes a TED Talk (opens the original)
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How a Lie Becomes a TED Talk! The most-watched TED talk of all time is a lie. So is the marshmallow test. So is basically everything you think you know about willpower. This is the episode that ruins your favorite psychology facts, one receipt at a time. Visit our hub: https://unusualpractice.carrd.co Other site: https://unusualpractice.podview.com Main site: https://practicecharli.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/unusual-practice/donations
Blue Zones Debunked: The Longevity Myth Built on Missing Paperwork (opens the original)
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You've been sold a lie wrapped in olive oil and slow drone footage. For twenty years, “Blue Zones” have been the gospel of the wellness world - five magic regions where people supposedly live to 110 on beans, purpose, and good vibes. We follow a UCL demographer who did the one thing nobody else bothered to do - check the paperwork - and unravel a story that runs through a mummified man collecting his own pension for 32 years, a 2025 “Mrs. Doubtfire” scandal in Italy, and the reason Scandinavia n
Your brain decided before you did. Here’s the proof (opens the original)
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In 1983, a neuroscientist discovered something that should’ve ended a philosophical argument dead on the spot: your brain starts acting before you feel like you’ve decided anything. This week, we connect that experiment to a brand-new 2026 discovery that shows even your most basic sensory brain regions are quietly entangled in decisions you think you haven’t made yet, plus what a West African oracle tradition, a 1,000-year-old Indian philosophy, and a Greek Stoic all figured out about this centu
When Money talks, the room goes Silent (opens the original)
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Power or money have to just be enough so that nobody in the room dares say "are you sure about that." This episode is about what happens the moment someone, a billionaire, a president, the imposing voice in your friend group, gets enough authority that people stop correcting them. The psychology of why proven success curdles into blind conviction, why entire rooms go silent at the exact moment they should be arguing, and why we mistake "they won before" for "they're right now." Real cases inside
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