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99% Invisible #132- Castle On The Park (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Primitive cancer treatment never looked so good.

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


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #130- Holdout (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A story of steadfastness

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


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 26
99% Invisible #131- Genesis Object (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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In the beginning, there was design.

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


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #128- Hacking Ikea (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
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See a lack, post a hack

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


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 9
99% Invisible #129- Thomassons (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Just as humans have tailbones and whales have pelvic bones, cities have stairs to nowhere, empty telephone poles, and pipes that carry nothing at ...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #125- Duplitecture (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The White House has a china collection and China has a White House collection.

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


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #94- Unbuilt (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The best buildings that never were.

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


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #122- Good Egress (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Locate the exits nearest you

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #120- Skyjacking (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Hijackers robbed the United States of a pleasant airport experience.

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


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 21
99% Invisible #119- Feet Of Engineering (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The agony and ecstasy of the high heel.

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


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 22
99% Invisible #117- Clean Trains (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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There's still graffiti on the New York City subway. We can't see it.

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


  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #115- Cow Tunnels (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The mystery of New York's secret meat hacking district.

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


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #114a- Roger That (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The increasing jolliness of the Jolly Roger.

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


  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #112- Young Ruin (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A building that was ruined, but not spoiled.

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


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #110- Structural Integrity (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When Manhattan was almost flattened.

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


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #102- Icon For Access (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When a universal symbol does not universally apply.

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


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 13
99% Invisible #103- U.T.B.A.P.H. (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The everlasting architecture of Pizza Hut.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMPG, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #109- Title TK (Standard 4:30)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The business of naming businesses.

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


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #108- Barcodes (Standard 4:30)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The inventor of the barcode just so happens to be a delightful person.

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #106- The Fancy Shape (Standard 4:30)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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This shape is everywhere. And it's always fancy.

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #105- One Man Is An Island (Standard 4:30)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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No man is an island. Except for Busta Rhymes.

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
99% Invisible #104- Tunnel 57 (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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You couldn't climb over the Berlin Wall. You couldn't go around it. The only way was under.

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #105- One Man Is An Island (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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No man is an island. Except for Busta Rhymes.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WABE, XRAY.fm, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 4
99% Invisible #101- Cover Story (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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You know the saying: you can’t judge a book by its cover. With magazines, it’s pretty much the opposite.

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 14