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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, 5 months ago
Higher And Higher
Episode 100
Like the best of these stories, the two bitter rivals started out as best friends: William Van Alen and Craig Severance. They were business partners.…
12 years, 5 months ago
The View From The 79th Floor
Episode 99
On July 28, 1945, an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building. A B-25 bomber was flying a routine mission, chartering servicemen from Massachu…
12 years, 6 months ago
Six Stories- the memory palace
Episode 98
Elevators are old. They would have to be. Because it is in our nature to rise. History is full of things that lift other things. In ancient Greece, a…
12 years, 6 months ago
Numbers Stations
Episode 97
If you tune around on a shortwave radio, you might stumble across a voice reciting an endless stream of numbers. Just numbers, all day, everyday. The…
12 years, 6 months ago
DIY Space Suit
Episode 96
Cameron Smith is building a space suit in his apartment. He’s not an astronaut. He’s not even an engineer. Cameron Smith is an archaeologist–on facul…
12 years, 7 months ago
Future Screens are Mostly Blue
Episode 95
We have seen the future, and the future is mostly blue. Or, put another way: in our representations of the future in science fiction movies, blue see…
12 years, 7 months ago
Unbuilt
Episode 94
There is an allure in unbuilt structures: the utopian, futuristic transports, the impossibly tall skyscrapers, even the horrible highways, all captur…
12 years, 8 months ago
Revolving Doors
Episode 93
The story goes like this: Theophilus Van Kannel hated chivalry. There was nothing he despised more than trying to walk in or out of a building, and l…
12 years, 8 months ago
All the Buildings
Episode 92
I love those moments when you’re walking in your neighborhood and suddenly nothing is familiar. In a good way. Sean Cole began seeing his neighborhoo…
12 years, 8 months ago