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99% Invisible #326-Welcome To Jurassic Art (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Dinosaurs used to be depicted as big, dumb, cold-blooded reptiles. They were thought of as evolutionary failures destined for extinction. And that ...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix

99% Invisible #325-The Worst Way To Start A City (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

In the 1860s and 1870s, white settlers from the areas around Indian Territory — like Kansas and Texas — started to realize that there was vast piec...

99% Invisible #324-Billboard Boys: The Greatest Radio Contest Of All Time (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

For the contest, three people would ascend 30 up a ladder to a platform running under a WSAN billboard. Whoever stayed up the longest would walk aw...

Bought by KHNS

99% Invisible #323-The House That Came In The Mail (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

The thousands of pages in a vintage Sears catalog are like a snapshot of the world as it was a century ago. And starting in 1908, the company that ...

Bought by KZYX

99% Invisible #322-The First Straw (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. Thi...

Bought by PRX Remix

99% Invisible #321-Double Standards (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

In 2017 alone over 12,500 Asian Americans had double eyelid surgery. Given the history of the procedure, it makes sense that some people in the U.S...

99% Invisible #318-Fire and Rain (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

The Thomas Fire burned more than 280,000 acres. It eventually burned into the still-fresh scars from other recent fires and simply put itself out. ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and PRX Remix

99% Invisible #317-Built To Burn (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

When Jack Cohen studied wildfires, he discovered that houses that had burned down were surrounded by green trees. This made him radically rethink h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KPIK-LP

99% Invisible #316-The Shipping Forecast (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Four times every day, on radios all across the United Kingdom, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script. “And now the ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

99% Invisible #314-Interrobang (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

In his article “Making a New Point...," ad man and type nerd Martin Speckter proposed the first new mark of English language punctuation in 300 yea...

99% Invisible #313-Right To Roam (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Young ramblers of Manchester set in motion changes that would transform how England thinks about private property. The Kinder Scout trespass has be...

Bought by ABC and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

99% Invisible #312-Post-Narco Urbanism (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Medellin, Colombia, once overshadowed by drug lord Pablo Escobar, went from being the bloody cocaine capital of the world into a place that’s often...

99% Invisible #311-The Barney Design (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

In hindsight, the notable part of the game wasn’t how the two teams played, but the way they looked. The Bulls were dressed in red jerseys with the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WOUB

99% Invisible #310-77 Steps (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

As the U.S. war effort ramped up in the early 1940s, the needed a chair that was fireproof, waterproof, lightweight and strong enough to survive a ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

99% Invisible #300-Airships And The Future That Never Was (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Today, blimps are mostly just PR gimmicks, but for over a century, lighter-than-air crafts have been backed by large companies and, at times, whole...

Bought by KZYX, WDBM, PRX Remix, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

99% Invisible #308-Curb Cuts (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the ...

Bought by ABC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis

99% Invisible #307-Immobile Homes (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

"Part of the paradox at the heart of manufactured housing is that it's precisely the thing that makes it so affordable that also makes this a highl...

Bought by KZYX and KZMU Moab Community Radio

99% Invisible #306-Breaking Bad News (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

It turns out that one of the first doctors to recognize the challenges of doctor-patient communication wasn’t just a physician — he was also a come...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

99% Invisible #304-Gander International Airport (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Anyone who was anyone stopped by this airport. The Beatles’ first steps on the North American continent weren’t in New York — they were in Gander, ...

99% Invisible #303-The Hair Chart (Director's Cut)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)

Beyond Oprah’s hair, Andre Walker is know for a system that he created back in the 1990s that categorizes natural hair types, often referred to sim...

Bought by PRX Remix

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