589 episodes
99% Invisible Stitcher Studios
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4.8 β’ 24.1K Ratings
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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. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.
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530- The Panopticon Effect
The βpanopticonβ might be the best known prison concept in the world. Itβs become the metaphor for the surveillance state, but very few actual prisons were built around this idea. Breda Dome is one of them.
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529- The Wilderness Tool
The rise, fall, and unexpected second life of the crosscut saw is also the story of how America created the very concept of wilderness.
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Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden
Two stories about the transformative power of silence from our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz
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528- A Whale-Oiled Machine
Friction, tribology, and the complex art and science of lubrication
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527- RoboUmp
The surprisingly long history of trying to use robots to call balls and strikes in baseball
Customer Reviews
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I love the show so so much please keep it up. Also the new episode of this has referenced minor league baseball teams names being related to the town or area, another example of this is the Tacoma Rainers which is a reference to the name of Mount Rainierπ²π²π²πͺ¨πͺ¨πͺ¨π±π±π±πͺ΅πͺ΅πͺ΅π―π―π―π―π―π―π―
Great stories, but mostly commercials
This series was great in the beginning! Loved hearing the stories that are behind every day things in our world. BUT, the last few years have been filled with more and more commercials both by Roman and outside produced commercials. This is now at the bottom of my play lists for podcasts. I'll listen to it but only if I have played all other podcasts in my queue.
It was great, but I find it harder and harder to get through an episode with so many commercials.
Went downhill
Painfully woke now.