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99% Invisible

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

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Remember when grocery shelves went bare and cargo ships clogged the California coast? That chaos was

Every fall, a vacant Toronto storefront is possessed by Spirit Halloween, the pop-up shop haunting 1

This is the tenth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Br

Today, we have three stories about designs meant to fool you. Camouflage meant to fool U-boats. High

In this bonus episode, Roman unearths the surprising story behind the 99% Invisible's name and delve

In the heart of Copenhagen, a former military base transformed into Christiania, a self-proclaimed a

The unexpected story of how Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite—designed to build the world—was co-

What started as Emily Nussbaum’s “guilty pleasure” of watching Big Brother became a deeper dive into

This is the ninth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Br

Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Q

Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s

The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like

Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weat

All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of

Insurance companies are not climate activists, but they know more about climate risk than just about

In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city o

Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate have

This is the eighth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power B

This is the eighth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power B

This week we're highlighting a couple of series that live inside the 99pi production tent.We’ve got