Social Sciences Podcasts

Sword and Scale

435 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 59.2K ratings
Sword and Scale is a true crime podcast covering the dark underworld of crime and the criminal justice system’s response to it. The first episode launched January 1st, 2014 and feature stories of m...

EconTalk

1,269 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
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 ...

Anything Ghost Show

70 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Since 2006, Anything Ghost has been sharing people's personal paranormal experiences. The stories are sent to Lex Wahl, who reads the experiences and sometimes adds music and effects to the backgro...

SciShow Tangents

478 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to ...

Blurry Photos

427 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
A podcast that explores the unexplained and explains the unexplored, Blurry Photos seeks the facts behind the fiction of the world’s most fascinating, unbelievable, and chilling mysteries and legen...

Inquiring Minds

464 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★ - 821 ratings
Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though scienc...

Decoding the Gurus

139 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 720 ratings
An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream, o...

Consider Before Consuming

145 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 704 ratings
Think about all of the things you consider every day to help keep yourself, your loved ones, and your community happy, healthy, and hopeful. Now consider this: There is an ever-growing body of re...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,531 episodes - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news,...

Science of Reading: The Podcast

222 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 491 ratings
Science of Reading: The Podcast will deliver the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading. Via a conversational approach, each episode explores a timely topic related to...

Inside Mental Health

419 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 446 ratings
Award-winning weekly podcast that approaches psychology and mental health in an accessible way. Listen as our host Gabe Howard speaks candidly with experts, celebrities, and other notables to break...

Origin Stories

84 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 412 ratings
Explore human evolution one story at a time. This award-winning show blends storytelling with science that will change your understanding of who we are.

Very Bad Therapy

152 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 318 ratings
Very Bad Therapy is a closer look at what goes wrong in the counseling room - and how it could go better - as told by the clients who survived.

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

164 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 293 ratings
A unique podcast exploring the life and work of C.G. Jung through in-depth discussions with certified Jungian Analysts. Created and hosted by Laura London in Chicago.

Be Reasonable

165 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 263 ratings
Be Reasonable is a podcast which examines beliefs from outside of the mainstream, exploring how those views are constructed and what evidence people feel supports their case. We believe in approach...

Seven Ages Audio Journal

73 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Archaeology and the Exploration of Human History

Abundant Practice Podcast

593 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 225 ratings
I want you to quit your agency job, & start your life! Stop circling the drain in agencies & have more free time, income, & freedom in private practice. In this podcast, we answer your private prac...

Popcorn Psychology

127 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 222 ratings
Three licensed therapists breakdown and analyze popular movies and characters from the perspectives of an individual, child, and a marriage and family therapist. Become a supporter of this podcast...

Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon

277 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 208 ratings
No Jargon, the Scholars Strategy Network’s monthly podcast, presents interviews with top university scholars on the politics, policy problems, and social issues facing the nation. Powerful research...

Jungianthology Radio

149 episodes - Latest episode: about 17 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 183 ratings
Podcasts published by the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago including Jung in the World, Healing Cinema, Jungian Ever After, and Institute Archives.

Quantitude

192 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 181 ratings
A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without takin...

Science for the People

649 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
Science for the People is a long-format interview podcast that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public policy, to help listeners understand the evidence and a...

Other Life

244 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 170 ratings
I study the lives of the wildest writers who ever lived.

ArchaeoEd Podcast

48 episodes - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 169 ratings
Get ready to embark on a time-traveling adventure with the legendary archaeologist, Dr. Ed Barnhart! Let's unearth the stories of the awe-inspiring civilizations of the Americas. These are the tal...

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

194 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Razib Khan engages a diverse array of thinkers on all topics under the sun. Genetics, history, and politics. See: http://razib.substack.com/

Woman of Valor with Bari Mitzmann

79 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Candid discussions and practical advice for the modern woman

Two Psychologists Four Beers

111 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 151 ratings
Two psychologists endeavor to drink four beers while discussing news and controversies in science, academia, and beyond.

Wise Guy Talks

85 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 139 ratings
This is the podcast where everthing is in bounds. Social, political, philosophical, to the sublime.

Probable Causation

179 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 129 ratings
A show about law, economics, and crime.

Raising Daughters

236 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
This podcast will provide information, awareness, practical tools, and inspiration to parents and other adults who work with elementary, middle, and high school girls.