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99% Invisible

Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped n

Episodes

Total: 753

Reversing the Grid

2017/5/2

For most people, electricity only flows one way (into the home), but there are exceptions — people w

Sounds Natural

2017/4/18

In most wildlife films, the sounds you hear were not recorded while the cameras were rolling. Most f

Los Angeles is rich with architectural diversity. On the same block, you could find a retro-futurist

Containers

2017/4/4

We’re based in beautiful downtown Oakland, CA which is a port city in the San Francisco Bay. Massive

Manzanar

2017/3/28

When Warren Furutani was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s, he sometimes heard his parents refe

The Falling of the Lenins

2017/3/21

On the night of December 8, 2013, a huge crowd gathered on a tree-lined boulevard in downtown Kiev,

Logos used to be a thing people didn’t really give much thought to. But over the last decade, the vo

In the 1980s, the United States experienced a refugee crisis. Thousands of Central Americans were fl

In the 1980s, Rev. John Fife and his congregation at Southside Presbyterian Church began to help Cen

As the world entered the Atomic Age, humankind faced a new fear that permeated just about every aspe

Usonia the Beautiful

2017/2/15

Frank Lloyd Wright believed that the buildings we live in shape the kinds of people we become. His a

Usonia 1

2017/2/7

Frank Lloyd Wright was a bombastic character that ultimately changed the field of architecture, and

The Eponymist

2017/2/1

Eponym (noun):  A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be n

The Revolutionary Post

2017/1/24

Winifred Gallagher, author of How the Post Office Created America: A History, argues that the post o

On January 3, 1979, two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department went to the home of Eulia Ma

Mini-Stories: Volume 2

2017/1/10

Part 2 where host Roman Mars talks to the 99pi producers about their favorite “Mini-Stories.” These

Mini-Stories: Volume 1

2016/12/20

Host Roman Mars talks to the 99pi producers about their favorite “Mini-Stories.” These are little an

Plat of Zion

2016/12/14

The urban grid of Salt Lake City, Utah is designed to tell you exactly where you are in relation to

Guano Island

2016/12/6

In 2014, President Obama expanded the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, making it the

NBC Chimes

2016/11/29

The NBC chimes may be the most famous sound in broadcasting. Originating in the 1920s, the three key