99% Invisible

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Por Roman Mars
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528- A Whale-Oiled Machine

Back when whale oil was mainly used as a fuel to burn in lanterns and streetlights, an...

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420- The Lost Cities of Geo Redux

 If we’ve learned anything from watching the turnover of tech giants like Yahoo! and MySpace,...

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527- RoboUmp

One study from 2018 found that Major League Baseball umpires blow about 14 calls every game....

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526- Orange Alternative

In the 1980s a Polish anti-communist group called the Orange Alternative used cute images of a...

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525- The Chinatown Punk Wars

When LA punks were looking for a place to play in the late 1970s, Chinatown welcomed the unruly...

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524- The Day the Music Stopped

On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new...

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523- Six-on-Six Basketball

In the 20th century, Iowa high school girls basketball was HUGE but it was not the game we know...

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522- The Comrades

If you live in South Africa, you definitely know someone who runs ultra-marathons, probably lots...

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521- A Sea of Yellow

Back in 2017 we ran an episode about the history of Brazil's iconic, yellow national soccer...

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520- Mini-Stories: Volume 16

We’re kicking off the new year at 99pi with a fresh installment of mini-stories, including: what...

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519- Balikbayan Boxes

This time of year, right in the middle of the holiday season, there's a beloved, frenzied...

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518- Mini-Stories: Volume 15

The whole conceit of this show is that if look at the world in the right way, you’ll see stories...

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517- The Divided Dial

If you’ve ever flipped through the radio dial — not satellite, not podcasts, but good...

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516- Cougar Town

Wildlife and urban development don’t usually go well together. Roads in particular fracture the...

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515- Super Citizens

Los Angeles' El Peatonito is part of a subset of real life superheroes who are more focused on...

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405- Freedom House Ambulance Service: American Sirens

When people ask me what my favorite episode of 99% Invisible is, I have a hard time answering....

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514- Train Set: Track Two

Funiculars are great, which is why the main image from our previous train episode featured one --...

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Articles of Interest: American Ivy

Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear. Host and producer Avery Trufelman investigates...

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513- The Safety Bicycle

The basic mechanics of the bike are pretty simple --- it’s basically a triangle with wheels and a...

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512- Walk of Fame

Even if you haven't made the pilgrimage to Southern California, you can probably already picture...

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