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The Barney Design
Episode 311
Until the early 90s, basketball uniforms were pretty tame. There had been real limits to what could be done with jerseys. All the details—the numbers…
7 years, 8 months ago
77 Steps
Episode 310
As the U.S. war effort ramped up in the early 1940s, the Navy put out a request for chair design submissions. They needed a chair that was fireproof,…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Vault
Episode 309
Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans -- but it is also home to a vault containing seed…
7 years, 9 months ago
Curb Cuts
Episode 308
If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it's easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the si…
7 years, 9 months ago
Immobile Homes
Episode 307
"Part of the paradox at the heart of manufactured housing," explains Esther Sullivan, a sociologist at the University of Colorado Denver "is that it'…
7 years, 9 months ago
Breaking Bad News
Episode 306
When a doctor reveals a terminal diagnosis to a patient -- that process is as delicate a procedure as any surgery, with potentially serious consequen…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Laff Box
Episode 305
For nearly five decades, the laugh track was ubiquitous on television sitcoms, but in the early 2000s, it began to disappear. What happened? How did …
7 years, 10 months ago
Gander International Airport
Episode 304
The Gander Airport in Newfoundland was once the easternmost airfield in North America, so when transatlantic air travel was new and difficult through…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Hair Chart
Episode 303
Andre Walker became famous for being Oprah Winfrey’s hair stylist, but he is also known for something else: a system that he created back in the 1990…
7 years, 10 months ago
Lessons from Las Vegas
Episode 302
To this day, architects tend to turn their noses up at Las Vegas, or simply dismiss it as irrelevant to serious design theory. But as Denise Scott Br…
7 years, 10 months ago