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Structural Integrity
Episode 110
When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest buildin…
11 years, 10 months ago
Title TK
Episode 109
The name is important. It’s the first thing of any product you use or buy or see. The tip of the spear. You are bombarded by thousands of names every…
11 years, 10 months ago
Barcodes
Episode 108
When George Laurer goes to the grocery store, he doesn’t tell the check-out people that he invented the barcode, but his wife used to point it out. “…
11 years, 11 months ago
Call Now
Episode 107
When it’s three o’clock in the morning and everything is going wrong in your life, there’s a certain kind of ad you might see on basic cable. Lawyers…
11 years, 11 months ago
The Fancy Shape
Episode 106
Quatrefoil is the name of the four-lobed cloverleaf shape. It’s everywhere: adorning Gothic cathedrals, more modern churches, Rhode Island mansions, …
11 years, 11 months ago
One Man is An Island
Episode 105
A few years ago, reporter Sean Cole was working on a radio story and needed to interview the rapper Busta Rhymes. Sean was living in Boston at the ti…
11 years, 11 months ago
Tunnel 57
Episode 104
At its peak, the Berlin Wall was 100 miles long. Today only about a mile is left standing. Compared with other famous walls in history, this wall had…
12 years ago
UTBAPH
Episode 103
It started with some Pittsburgh humor. Pittsburgh-based comedian Tom Muisal does a bit about a GPS unit that can give directions in “Pittsburghese.” …
12 years ago
Icon for Access
Episode 102
There is a beauty to a universal standard. The idea that people across the world can agree that when they interact with one specific thing, everyone …
12 years ago
Cover Story
Episode 101
You know the saying: you can’t judge a book by its cover. With magazines, it’s pretty much the opposite. The cover of a magazine is the unified ident…
12 years ago