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99% Invisible #18- Check Cashing Stores (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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One could argue that check cashing stores do a lot of things that are just plain wrong. But given so many people use them, what are they doing right?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #17- Concrete Furniture (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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In 1965, the people of Toronto were revolting against City Hall. Over furniture. Made out of concrete.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #16- A Designed Language (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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In the language that means hope, the sky is blueing.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #14- The Periodic Table (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, WMUU-LP, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #13- Maps
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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I’m sorry, but if you don’t love maps, I don’t think we can be friends anymore.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #12- 99% Guilt Free
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A new streetlamp offers more by giving less.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #11- 99% Undesigned
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Almost everything in modern life is designed to waste energy. If you feel OK about this--well, that's also by design.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 21
99% Invisible #10- 99% Sound and Feel (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Even though he was deaf, Beethoven wrote some of the greatest works of music of all time. So when Chris Downey started losing his sight, he didn't...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #09- 99% Private (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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If a public space is owned by a corporation, just how "public" is it?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, New Hampshire Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #08- 99% Free Parking (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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No one's favorite part of living in an urban area is finding a place to park your car. But a re-designed parking system in San Francisco may take ...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #07- 99% Alien (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When it comes to designing livable habitats in outer space, engineers have long figured out how to provide astronauts with the basics. But how do ...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #19- Liberation Squares (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WUTC, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 15
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...

Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create The World We Want
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Compound
From: William Wright
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look into a warehouse turned multi-use, self sufficient communal space.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
Gems of Bluegrass #1202 Bluegrass Lonely and Bluegrass lonesome. For regular users, piece for Jan 7-13, 2012. Others use any time.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Lonesome and lonely. Two little words that are easily confused. But in bluegrass, they embody meanings more than a few shades apart.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 06:56
Bluegrass Review # 1202. Program for Jan 7-13, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
On our Gem of Bluegrass, we investigate the difference between bluegrass lonesome and bluegrass lonely. That discussion is the springboard to playi...

Bought by WEZU, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1201 2011 in Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
On today's show, we focus on important trends n bluegrass, and play the cream of the crop.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 48.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
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We introduce Six French Singer/Songwriters in English and invite you to listen when they interpret one of their songs in French. It may be habit-fo...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 25:08
  • Purchases: 2
The Promise and Perils of Nanotechnology
From: A World of Possibilities
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Today, nano particles are in our food, cosmetics, and hundreds of other items. And this is just the beginning of what is projected to be a $1 trill...

Bought by WZEN.org, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WRPI, WDSE, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 5
Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 47.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
Caption: Saint-Tropez
Six Francophone artists interpret one of their songs in French. We'll tell you about them and their songs in English.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 27:09
  • Purchases: 2
Congress Needs to Do What It Knows is Right
From: Obama for America
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People called in from all over the country to voice their support for President Obama's payroll tax cut. Here's what a couple of folks said.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: :54
Exit 31: The Unbearable Amstel Lightness of Being
From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Road 2 Shambala
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The epic struggle between giants and cowboys. An excerpt from Sam Dingman’s Reasonable Doubt, as performed at the People’s Improv Theater earlier ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 15:41
StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop
From: StoryCorps
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Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3

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