99% Invisible

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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The Return of Con Law

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

We heard you. The chorus of voices asking “where is Con Law? Where is Professor Elizabeth Joh to guide us through this madness? We need it now more th...

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Adapt or Design

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

A debilitating injury forces 99PI's Kurt Kohlstedt to confront new everyday challenges and seek out accessible design solutions for one-handed living....

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Foreign in a Domestic Sense

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

A dusty surveillance file uncovers the story of love, betrayal, and the fight for Puerto Rico’s freedom.Foreign in a Domestic Sense Subscribe to Siriu...

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Fishing In The Night

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

Shortwave radio opened a portal to the world—then became a weapon in a high-stakes war of propaganda and power.The Divided Dial is a podcast series ab...

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😅⚖️

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

A single 👍 emoji sent over text was meant to say “got it”—but instead, it kicked off a $62,000 legal battle and raised the question: can an emoji sea...

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Changing Stripes Revisited

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

At the January 6th Capitol insurrection, rioters waved Confederate, MAGA, and Trump-as-Rambo flags. Easy to miss without knowing the design was a brig...

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One-Nil to the Arsenal

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

A goofy Shakira remix, a nervy penalty kick, and 60,000 fans turning banter into legend—welcome to the world of football chants.One-Nil to the Arsenal...

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I've Got 1099 Problems...

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

If you're one of the millions of Americans struggling with your tax forms today, you're not alone. Even Albert Einstein allegedly found income taxes t...

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Everything Is Tuberculosis

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

John Green uncovers how the world’s deadliest curable disease still thrives—and why everything, from cowboy hats to colonial borders, traces back to t...

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The Great American Pyramid

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

In 1991, one of the strangest buildings in America opened — a 32-storey, stainless steel pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee.The Great American Pyramid Subs...

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Secret Mall Apartment

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

A group of artists explored the back hallways of a mall in Providence, RI, and found the perfect place to build a private hangout. We interviewed the...

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What We're Reading

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

After we finished up The Power Broker, a bunch of people were asking us what other books we’d been reading. A group of us got together and presented s...

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A Beetle By Any Other Name

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

A tiny, unremarkable beetle hiding in the caves of Slovenia has an infamously unfortunate name—one that has sparked heated debates in the scientific w...

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The Brutalists

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

A film about a struggling architect, a style the world loves to hate—The Brutalist and Brutalism itself share more than just a name. Is it bold vision...

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The Nazi Block

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

In the heart of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district sits a hulking, crumbling concrete cylinder—an abandoned relic of a Nazi plan to rebuild the ci...