99% Invisible
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 is it so hard to build anything in America?
A dusty surveillance file uncovers the story of love, betrayal, and the fight for Puerto Rico’s freedom.
Shortwave radio opened a portal to the world—then became a weapon in a high-stakes war of propaganda and power.
At the January 6th Capitol insurrection, rioters waved Confederate, MAGA, and Trump-as-Rambo flags. Easy to miss without knowing the design was a bright yellow flag with three red stripes — the flag of South Vietnam.
A goofy Shakira remix, a nervy penalty kick, and 60,000 fans turning banter into legend—welcome to the world of football chants.
John Green uncovers how the world’s deadliest curable disease still thrives—and why everything, from cowboy hats to colonial borders, traces back to tuberculosis.
Take a whirlwind tour of Memphis with the city’s most enthusiastic historian, uncovering duck parades, telecom turf wars, and a street named after a single day in 1934.
In 1991, one of the strangest buildings in America opened — a 32-storey, stainless steel pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee.