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99% Invisible

Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. ... Read more

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429- Stuccoed in Time

429- Stuccoed in Time

Santa Fe is famous in part for a particular architectural style, an adobe (mudbrick) look that came to be called Pueblo ... Read more

2 Feb 2021

43mins

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327- A Year in the Dark

327- A Year in the Dark

Early on the morning of September 20th, 2017, a category four hurricane named Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico. It wa... Read more

31 Oct 2018

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167- Voices in the Wire

167- Voices in the Wire

This week on 99% Invisible, we have two stories about the early days of broadcasting and home sound recording, produced ... Read more

3 Jun 2015

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199- The Yin and Yang of Basketball (Repeat)

199- The Yin and Yang of Basketball (Repeat)

In 1891, a physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts invented the game we would come to know as basketbal... Read more

7 Jun 2017

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316- The Shipping Forecast

316- The Shipping Forecast

Four times every day, on radios all across the British Isles, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipher... Read more

25 Jul 2018

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304- Gander International Airport

304- Gander International Airport

The Gander Airport in Newfoundland was once the easternmost airfield in North America, so when transatlantic air travel ... Read more

25 Apr 2018

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168- All In Your Head

168- All In Your Head

People who make horror movies know: if you want to scare someone, use scary music. Some of the most creative use of musi... Read more

10 Jun 2015

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344- The Known Unknown

344- The Known Unknown

The tradition of the Tomb of the Unknowns goes back only about a century, but it has become one of the most solemn and r... Read more

6 Mar 2019

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281- La Sagrada Familia

281- La Sagrada Familia

There are a lot of Gothic churches in Spain, but this one is different. It doesn’t look like a Gothic cathedral. It look... Read more

25 Oct 2017

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303- The Hair Chart

303- The Hair Chart

Andre Walker became famous for being Oprah Winfrey’s hair stylist, but he is also known for something else: a system tha... Read more

17 Apr 2018

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296- Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)

296- Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)

After World War 2, city planners in Amsterdam wanted to design the perfect “City of the Future.” They decided to build a... Read more

21 Feb 2018

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318- Fire and Rain

318- Fire and Rain

Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, right next to Santa Barbara, sits Montecito, California. The region endures... Read more

8 Aug 2018

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430- The Doom Boom

430- The Doom Boom

Bradley Garrett is the author of Bunker: Building for the Times. People have always built underground survival shelters ... Read more

9 Feb 2021

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251- Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut

251- Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut

Logos used to be a thing people didn’t really give much thought to. But over the last decade, the volume and intensity o... Read more

14 Mar 2017

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341- National Sword

341- National Sword

Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorte... Read more

13 Feb 2019

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313- Right to Roam

313- Right to Roam

In the United Kingdom, the freedom to walk through private land is known as “the right to roam.” The movement to win thi... Read more

27 Jun 2018

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306- Breaking Bad News

306- Breaking Bad News

When a doctor reveals a terminal diagnosis to a patient -- that process is as delicate a procedure as any surgery, with ... Read more

9 May 2018

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Roman Mars on ZigZag

Roman Mars on ZigZag

This is a special presentation of episode #4 of Radiotopia's newest show ZigZag. Manoush and Jen give themselves 36 hour... Read more

5 Jul 2018

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Judas and the Black Messiah, Episode 1: The Chairman

Judas and the Black Messiah, Episode 1: The Chairman

Proximity, 99% Invisible, and Warner Bros. present the “Judas and the Black Messiah Podcast,” an official film companion... Read more

12 Feb 2021

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295- Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar

295- Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar

The Chase logo was introduced in 1961, when the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company merged to form... Read more

13 Feb 2018

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