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99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 5
Searching Space
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #57- What Gave You That Idea (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What Charles Dickens has to do with those insurance commercials on TV.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #56- Frozen Music (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Composer Jon Brion reminds us the difference between a performance and a song.

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


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #55- The Best Beer in the World (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They made it perfect--but not for you.

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


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #54- The Colour of Money (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Australia made its money better. Why can't the US?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 18
Define Life
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is life? In the first installment of our "origin of life" topic, hear various attempts to define life and ponder the life of the internet.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 2
Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress Photo/ Matt Raymond
What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 6
99% Invisible #46- Vulcanite Dentures, or When Patent Violators Strike Back (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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These false teeth were to die for. To kill for, even.

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #45- Immersive Ideal (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The closest one could ever hope to get to dancing about architecture.

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #43- The Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Sometimes it's an object's imperfections that makes you fall in love with it. And sometimes that object is an escalator.

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 22
99% Invisible #42- Recognizably Anonymous (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A group accidentally created what ad execs dream of: a unique brand identity that rapidly achieved world-wide appeal and renknown. Except this gr...

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #41- The Human-Human Interface (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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We're used to interacting with objects. But we're not used to objects that teach us how to interact with each other.

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
Clever Apes: The happiness machine
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Philip Janicak of Rush University Medical Center adjusts his TMS machine. , Credit: WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer
Host Gabriel Spitzer explores how doctors are using magnets to tweak the brain's machinery and treat depression. Plus, how magnets and radio waves ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, KISU, KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 6
99% Invisible #30- The Blue Yarn
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Better (and less expensive) cancer treatment started with a sensei and ball of blue yarn...

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #40- Billy Possum (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The children's fad that has never swept the nation

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Not the kind of place that makes your divorce or custody battle any easier.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #38- The Sound of Sport (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Dennis Baxter and Bill Whiston are so good at doing their job, you probably don’t even know that their job exists at all.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #37- The Steering Wheel (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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I bet you think could pantomime changing lanes with an imaginary steering wheel. But you'd be very, very wrong. You’d probably kill a bunch of imag...

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #36- Super Bon Bonn (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What happens to a city when its purpose is stripped away virtually overnight?

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #35- Elegy for WTC (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A building’s worth is an infinitesimal fraction of the worth a person’s life. But a building is still a living thing in a way.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 10
99% Invisible #34- The Speed of Light for Pyramids (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What we can learn from architects who lived thousands of years ago: make buildings last longer.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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This simple graphic design has saved thousands of lives.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
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
Part 2, Wind and Water
From: Ross Chambless
Caption: The Stairs hydroelectric dam in Big Cottonwood Canyon, one of the oldest sources of electricity for Salt Lake City., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:12