Trust Forward - A History Podcast - Coming September 1st

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Trust is one of the strangest things about being human. It's completely invisible, entirely made up, and yet it holds all of society together. Every time you hand over cash, cross the road, or click "buy," you're taking a small leap of faith that the whole system will hold. These are systems we've quietly built to make life with strangers possible. But trust is fragile, it has to be maintained or it breaks, and throughout history we've repeatedly had to rebuild it. That's what this series is about: trust, making it and breaking it. Over six episodes, anthropologist and archaeologist Mary-Ann Ochota talks to some of the world's sharpest minds, from poker players and astrophysicists to mafia…