99% Invisible

Episodios

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  Doves Type 15.09.2026 37m

  A legendary typeface, a spectacular friendship breakup, and one extremely committed act of revenge.
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  100 Objects #17: M43 Field Jacket 11.09.2026 41m

  How should the military outfit its soldiers to make them as safe and effective as possible?
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  Kobuk the Destroyer 08.09.2026 38m

  Every product has to be tested somehow, and sometimes that means finding increasingly creative ways to break it.
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  100 Objects #16: Wheel of Fortune Dalmatian 04.09.2026 46m

  How the ceramic Dalmatian became the mascot for one of America's most popular game shows.
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  1-800-PODCAST 01.09.2026 43m

  This week, two stories about the strange power of the 1-800 number.
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  100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock 28.08.2026 37m

  How the time clock not only ignited a revolution in workplace efficiency and surveillance, but transformed our relationship to time itself.
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  Spolia 25.08.2026 28m

  Spolia, from a Liverpool neighborhood to ancient Rome.
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  100 Objects #14: Basketball Sleeve 21.08.2026 41m

  Producer and reporter Ramtin Arablouei has a simple question: Why are so many NBA players wearing a compression sleeve on their arm?
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  The Bone Wars 18.08.2026 44m

  Two rival paleontologists turn a hunt for dinosaur bones into an all-out scientific war.
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  100 Objects #13: The Sand Letters 14.08.2026 48m

  Comedian Elliott Kalan joins Roman Mars to tell the story of how a politician who owed so much to a corrupt government system became the one to dismantle it, thanks to one woman: Julia Isabella Sand.
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  Bamboo Is Innocent 11.08.2026 32m

  A devastating fire put one of Hong Kong's oldest building traditions on trial, but the real story runs much deeper.
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  100 Objects #12: "Negro Cloth" 07.08.2026 37m

  Roman Mars and historian Seth Rockman trace the strange life of so-called "Negro cloth" — a textile category defined by nothing but who it was worn by.
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  The Borrowed Nature of Biomimicry 04.08.2026 31m

  Behind every perfect nature-inspired design is a far more complicated story.
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  100 Objects #11: Brannock Device 31.07.2026 27m

  In 1925, the world saw the birth of what just might be the greatest gadget in American History: the Brannock Device.
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  The Finnish Baby Box 28.07.2026 33m

  A simple cardboard box helped transform Finland into one of the best places in the world to raise a child.
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  100 Objects #10: Nunchaku 24.07.2026 36m

  In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee made nunchaku (nunchucks) cool, but the nunchucks craze coincided with something much bigger: the birth of a radical new Asian American identity.
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  The Original 100 Objects 21.07.2026 44m

  Neil MacGregor reflects on creating the landmark series that changed how people think about history. Then, revisit the Rosetta Stone, the artifact that unlocked ancient Egypt.
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  100 Objects #9: Missing Children Milk Carton 17.07.2026 33m

  In 1982, a twelve-year-old paperboy, Johnny Gosch, vanished from a quiet Iowa street and sparked an unlikely campaign: the faces of missing children printed on milk cartons by the billions.
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  If Mosquito Hawks Can Fly 14.07.2026 41m

  A Louisiana man born into slavery designs an airship with hopes to take flight. Those plans are interrupted, but maybe not forever.
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  100 Objects #8: Billy Possum 10.07.2026 36m

  The teddy bear was a huge hit, and sparked an idea…maybe every president from then on should have their own viral stuffed animal.