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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
Explosion Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Gottfried
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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 #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 #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
99% Invisible #100- Higher and Higher (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A battle for supremacy in the New York skyline.

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #93- Revolving Doors (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Join a revolution.

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 13
99% Invisible #92- All the Buildings (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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An artist draws New York. And vice versa.

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 10
99% Invisible #84a- Ladislav Sutnar (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The man who put parentheses around area codes.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:26
99% Invisible #85- A Noble Effort (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The man behind the background.

Bought by KPIK-LP, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #83- Heyoon (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Bored and disaffected and angry, Alex longed for a place to escape to. And then he found Heyoon.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #80- An Architect's Code (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Some architects say there are just some buildings that should never have been built: buildings that violate human rights by design.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #77- Game Changer (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The two tweaks to basketball that made it the sports juggernaut it is today.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #75- Secret Stairs
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Wherever there is sufficient demand to move between two points of differing elevation, there are stairs.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #74- Hand Painted Signs
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The last practitioners of disappearing art form that's poised to make a comeback

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A poet makes a city.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16