99% Invisible
99% Invisible
Roman Mars
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.
100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock
How the time clock not only ignited a revolution in workplace efficiency and surveillance, but transformed our relationship to time itself.
Aug 28
37 min
Spolia
Spolia, from a Liverpool neighborhood to ancient Rome.
Aug 25
28 min
100 Objects #14: Basketball Sleeve
Producer and reporter Ramtin Arablouei has a simple question: Why are so many NBA players wearing a compression sleeve on their arm?
Aug 21
41 min
The Bone Wars
Two rival paleontologists turn a hunt for dinosaur bones into an all-out scientific war.
Aug 18
44 min
100 Objects #13: The Sand Letters
Comedian Elliott Kalan joins Roman Mars to tell the story of how a politician who owed so much to a corrupt government system became the one to dismantle it, thanks to one woman: Julia Isabella Sand.
Aug 14
48 min
Bamboo Is Innocent
A devastating fire put one of Hong Kong's oldest building traditions on trial, but the real story runs much deeper.
Aug 11
32 min
100 Objects #12: "Negro Cloth"
Roman Mars and historian Seth Rockman trace the strange life of so-called "Negro cloth" — a textile category defined by nothing but who it was worn by.
Aug 7
37 min
The Borrowed Nature of Biomimicry
Behind every perfect nature-inspired design is a far more complicated story.
Aug 4
31 min
100 Objects #11: Brannock Device
In 1925, the world saw the birth of what just might be the greatest gadget in American History: the Brannock Device.
Jul 31
27 min
The Finnish Baby Box
A simple cardboard box helped transform Finland into one of the best places in the world to raise a child.
Jul 28
33 min
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