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99% Invisible #143- Inflatable Men (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
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They are men. Men made of tubes. Tubes full of air.

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


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 7
99% Invisible #140- Vexillonaire (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Never tolerate a mediocre flag.

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


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 21
99% Invisible #139- Edge Of Your Seat (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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"Sitting is the new smoking"

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rhythm & News Service, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #135- For Amusement Only (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The long battle to legalize... pinball.

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
Yaupon Tea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #137- Good Bread (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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It's not about white or wheat. It's everything else.

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


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 20
Defending Beef
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #138- O-U-I-J-A (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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"It's just a game...isn't it?"

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
Mosquitoes & People
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A black forest female Aedes aegypti formosus (left) bites animals and a brown domestic female Aedes aegypti (right) bites humans. , Credit: Photo credit: Lindy McBride
Thousands of years ago, the mosquitoes that now transmit dengue fever made the switch from biting forest animals to seeking out humans.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #134- The Straight Line Is A Godless Line (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The straight line is godless and immoral.

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


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 23
The Monkeys of New Guinea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos inhabit the rainforests of New Guinea., Credit: (Liquid Ghoul/Wikipedia)
Tree kangaroos hop up trees instead of swinging through them like monkeys.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Human Gut Powered Fuel
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Isaac Cann, Credit: L. Brian Stauffer
Human gut microbes could break down grasses into sugars for biofuel production.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Less materialistic people are happier...plus it's better for the environment.
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dick Swanson spoke with Dr. Miriam Tatzel, a psychologist at Empire State College in New York, about why true happiness involves personally ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:47
Anti-Cancer Venom
From: Susanne Bard
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Researchers are developing a technique to attack cancer cells with animal venoms.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Domestication Syndrome
From: Susanne Bard
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A new hypothesis ties domestication in mammals to “cute” physical features.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Birds on Life Support
From: Susanne Bard
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Hawaii’s birds face multiple threats, but one small thrush on the island of Kaua’i is a success story – so far.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Dead Ants & Wasp Nests
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: (A) Overview of a nest. Individual brood cells are separated by thin walls of soil material. (B) The nest is closed by a vestibular cell filled with dead ants. (C) Contents of a vestibular cell. (D) Female bone-house wasp. , Credit: Merten Ehmig (A, B), Michael Staab (C, D).
Bone house wasps place dead ants in their nests to ward off predators and parasites.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00