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National Sword
Episode 341
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Materials …
7 years ago
The Secret Lives of Color
Episode 340
Here at 99% Invisible, we think about color a lot, so it was really exciting when we came across a beautiful book called The Secret Lives of Color by…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Tunnel
Episode 339
In May of 1990, law enforcement raided a warehouse in Douglas, AZ and a private home across the border in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Connecting the two bui…
7 years, 1 month ago
Crude Habitat
Episode 338
Santa Barbara, California, is a famously beautiful place, but if you look offshore from one of the city's many beaches, you'll see a series of artifi…
7 years, 1 month ago
Atomic Tattoos
Episode 337
In the early 1950s, teenage students in Lake County, Indiana, got up from their desks, marched down the halls and lined up at stations. There, finger…
7 years, 1 month ago
Mini-Stories: Volume 6
Episode 336
99% Invisible is starting the year off with the sixth installment of our staff mini-stories. Kicking off 2019 are a set of tales about a perpetual li…
7 years, 2 months ago
Gathering the Magic
Episode 335
Magic: The Gathering is a card game and your goal is to knock your opponent down to zero points. But Magic: The Gathering also has a deep mythology a…
7 years, 2 months ago
Christmas with The Allusionist
Episode 334
For the holidays this year, we're presenting a two-part Radiotopia feature with friend of the show (and host of The Allusionist podcast) Helen Zaltzm…
7 years, 2 months ago
Mini-Stories: Volume 5
Episode 333
It’s the end of 2018 and time for our annual Mini-stories episodes. These are my favorite episodes of the year to make. Mini-stories are fun, quick h…
7 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Episode- Avery talks Articles of Interest with Roman
Roman talks with Avery about the lessons learned from making Articles of Interest
Don’t buy that new piece of clothing and use a bit of that money to…
7 years, 2 months ago