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100 Objects #18: Hair Relaxer
Somewhere between 85 to 95 percent of Black women in the United States have used a chemical hair relaxer at least once in their lifetime. It is a ubi…
6 hours ago
Doves Type
Episode 683
A legendary typeface, a spectacular friendship breakup, and one extremely committed act of revenge.
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3 days, 5 hours ago
100 Objects #17: M43 Field Jacket
Articles of Interest host Avery Trufelman joins Roman to tell the incredible story of the American military’s jacket problem: How should the military…
1 week ago
Kobuk the Destroyer
Episode 682
Every product has to be tested somehow, and sometimes that means finding increasingly creative ways to break it.
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1 week, 3 days ago
100 Objects #16: Wheel of Fortune Dalmatian
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If you watched Wheel of Fortune in the 1980s, …
2 weeks ago
1-800-PODCAST
Episode 681
This week, two stories about the strange power of the 1-800 number.
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2 weeks, 3 days ago
100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock
In 1888, Willard Bundy created the first employee "time clock" — essentially a souped-up grandfather clock that could, for the first time, produce an…
3 weeks ago
Spolia
Episode 680
Spolia, from a Liverpool neighborhood to ancient Rome.
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3 weeks, 3 days ago
100 Objects #14: Basketball Sleeve
Producer and reporter Ramtin Arablouei (co-creator of the NPR show, Throughline) has a simple question: why are so many NBA players wearing a compres…
4 weeks ago
The Bone Wars
Episode 679
Two rival paleontologists turn a hunt for dinosaur bones into an all-out scientific war.
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1 month ago