Unseen Influences

Unseen Influences launches Feb. 12, 2026 There are hidden forces that shape your choices. Some work to your benefit -- like finding your way through hospital corridors. Others nudge you toward buying products or adopting ideas that may not have occurred to you before. Unseen Influences helps you identify those efforts and make choices that are right for you. You'll learn how to find the right hospital room and why your hotel thermostat lies to you about how low you can set the temperature. We...

Sometimes control is just an illusion. Buttons and signs that tell us we have some control over our movement or environment are there just to make us feel good. They don't do anything. In this episode we'll tell you about those controls, what they do or don't do and why that is. Some of them have secret codes to make them actually work and we'll share those with you. You'll also hear about some efforts to make those useless controls do something beneficial for you and society as a whole...