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About the podcast
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing.
99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars.
Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org
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Why did it take nearly a decade to redesign a city trash can, and why haven't more bins made the streets cleaner?
Roman and Elizabeth discuss Article V, which lays out the process to amend the Constitution. Jill Lepore is our guest.
What the world's most advanced traffic system can—and can't—do for the city that invented gridlock.
The surprising power of a simple phone number to connect a community.
How one wealthy, amateur astronomer convinced the world Martians were real.
For centuries, the world's greatest minds were stumped by the deadly mystery of longitude, until an obsessive underdog entered the fray and changed navigation forever.
Roman and Elizabeth discuss Article IV, which outlines the relationship between states and between states and the federal government. California Attorney General Rob Bonta is our guest this month.
How a fence meant to protect sheep transformed the entire Australian landscape.
How a small Mexican border town transformed itself into the dental tourism capital of the world, where dental care costs up to 80% less than what it might cost in the United States.
When Idaho put a slogan on their license plates in 1928 it started a trend across all states and this would prove surprisingly contentious.