Social Infrastructure is the glue that binds communities together, and it is just as real as the infrastructure for water, power, or communications, although it's often harder to see. But Eric Klinenb...Show More
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 Kassia St. Clair Itโs this amazing collection of s...Show More
Invisibilia is a show that runs on empathy. We believe in it. But are we right? In this episode, we'll let you decide. We tell the same story twice in order to examine the questions: who deserves our ...Show More
Libraries aren't just for books. They're often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber cafรฉ, a place to find answers, a quiet spot to be alone.ย It's actually kind of ...Show More
Maggie Rogers had a breakthrough moment when she was a student at NYUโs Clive Davis Institute. Pharrell Williams visited to her class, and when he heard her song "Alaska," his reaction was dramatic, a...Show More
Co-working spaces might just be the future of work. Take WeWork. It's been cropping up in cities all over the world--borrowing billions to fuel its growth. Now, it's planning to go public.
Two strangers who don't speak the same language meet in Haiti and sparks fly... through Google Translate. Plus, untranslatable words of love, and a pair of robots navigating a tumultuous affair.
Malcolm challenges his assistant Camille to the Law School Admissions Test. He gets halfway through, panics, runs out of time, and wonders: why does the legal world want him to rush? Learn more about...Show More
During the dot com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an online encyclopedia. In 2001, Wales launched Wikip...Show More
Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why he...Show More
This week, Yes Yes No returns with a raid on Area 51, and the very worst name you can call a New York Times writer. Listen to the 1st episode of Mogul Season 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/mogul/z3h...Show More
Debbie talks to author and conflict resolution mediator Priya Parker about meetings and gatherings and why so many of them donโt work.
Baby Shark is an megaviral YouTube video, an unstoppable earworm, a top 40 hit, a Eurodance smash, a decades old campfire song, and the center of an international copyright dispute. This month on Deco...Show More
How the muggle and wizarding worlds collide in the Harry Potter theme.
Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Internet and social media to gain a startling prominence in American politics. One day, he was contacted by a...Show More
John Greenย reviewsย humanityโs capacity for wonder and sunsets.
In November of 2016, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster's apartment in Brooklyn, told her to take her battery out of her phone,ย and beganย to tellย her about The Ceremony, a mo...Show More
If there's one thing that sets people apart from machines, it's creativity, right? Automation may take over certain jobs, but what happens when algorithms start to learn from our work to create their ...Show More
Restaurateur Danny Meyer takes us back to where it all began for him: a family trip to Europe and a simple plate of pasta. That memorable meal sparked a lifetime practice of discovery that continues t...Show More
Actor Tom Hiddleston reminisces about his childhood love of Tchaikovskyโs ballet The Nutcracker and reveals that he still turns to the Russian Dance whenever he needs a shot of vitality in his day.
This is a story about your butt. Itโs a story about how you got your butt, why you have your butt, and how your butt might be one of the most important and essential things for you being you, for bein...Show More
When Barnett Newmanโs painting Whoโs Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was placed in the Stedelijk museum it was meant to be provocative, but one reaction that it received was so intense, so violent,...Show More
When Asma Khan was born it was said her mother cried, but not tears of joy. As a second daughter born in 1960s India, Asma felt she was a disappointment, even a burden, because she could not inherit a...Show More
How did an ancient Roman harbor end up in ruins? Scientists realized the culprit was a long-forgotten natural disaster that left tell-tale geological clues -- and possibly an eyewitness account in an ...Show More
"Disinformation, fake news, online propaganda is a problem that has gotten attention all over the world, and we're seeing very divergent responses," says Schiffrin, author of "Bridging the Gap: Rebuil...Show More
The song โClosing Timeโ by the American rock band Semisonic came out in March 1998. It hit #1 on the Alternative charts, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Song. It gets played in stadiums, ...Show More
In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break.ย K-pop is a global juggerna...Show More
Drake coined โYOLO,โ short for โyou only live onceโ in 2011, and then later apologized for all the douchiness it subsequently engendered.ย But the spirit is ancient, and cross-cultural, speaking deepl...Show More
In 2009, an old man died in a California nursing home. His obituary included not just his given name, but a long list of the pseudonyms he'd been known to use. In this episode, which we originally rel...Show More
Part I: It all started long before a hurricane named Katrina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They wer...Show More
Social Media is not just for modern folk. In ancient Pompeii, people also shared what they thought, who they met with, what they ate... It's just, they had to use different technology. For more inform...Show More
What happens when somebody dies in a country that’s not their home? This week on Kerning Cultures, stories about the group of volunteers who help repatriate the bodies of foreigners after they&r...Show More
The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to ...Show More
How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art. * *Donโt miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. โTheyโre just gone. And thatโs implausible because wolves donโt just disappea...Show More
We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. Weโre tryi...Show More
Host and co-creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, Dolly Partonโs America, and more, Jad Abumrad has inspired the sounds of thousands of podcasts and radio shows around the world (Kerning Cultures Network...Show More
Our worlds have contracted; once expansive, our orbits are now measured by rooms and street blocks. But there are still ways to travel. Today, escape to the worlds contained in three letters โ one abo...Show More
The world of high end perfume is surprisingly lucrative, considering that scent is often the most ignored of our senses. But one can't judge a scent solely by the brand and shape of the bottle. With t...Show More
The day that Amy Sherald heard that she had been chosen to paint the official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, she called her mom to tell her the news, and then she told her dog. But soon after,...Show More
In 2016,ย weย produced an episode about the ginkgo tree titled "Ginkgo Stink." With its fan-shaped leaves and golden fall foliage, the Ginkgo biloba is a beautiful tree with an incredible history dating...Show More
Brian Droitcour is a professional art critic, and a Yelp user. In 2012 he started using the popular review site to post his reactions to galleries and museums, using a distinctly un-art world-y voice....Show More
Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., speaks with four distinguished podcasters who work with true crime: Justin Ling, host of Uncover: The Village, Connie Walker, host of Missing & Murdered, N...Show More
One Friday night, a young woman headed out with friends in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a night on the town. She left the bar in the wee hours of the morning, meandering down the street. Then -- she disapp...Show More
For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to surviveโand thriveโin the violently anti-black South. He became one of the largest land-owners on the Arkansas Delta, ran several businesses, and was a...Show More
Is Richard Rosario an innocent man? Or is he a murderer? Dan Slepian begins his investigation at a prison in upstate New York, and at the scene of the crime in the Bronx.Learn more about your ad choic...Show More
Sick of aiming for excellence and feeling miserable when you fall short? Youโre not alone. Explore the upsides of imperfection, lowered expectations, and outright failure with philosopher Daniel Milo,...Show More
All his life, Eugene Shoemaker dreamed of stepping foot on the moon. A geologist and planetary scientist known for his work with craters, Gene worked tirelessly in the hopes of becoming an Apollo astr...Show More
Three boys kick over a mysterious barrel in the woods. A small town cop fishes for answers. Evidence is buried, and the case goes cold. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Bear Brook...Show More
Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon chats about growing up in Queens, what he learned from Abe Lincoln, and how he went from losing his job to becoming one of the top bankers in the w...Show More
โEqual protection of the lawsโ was granted to all persons by theย 14th Amendmentย in 1868. But for nearly a century after that, women had a hard time convincing the courts that they should be allowed to...Show More
“A party without a cake is just a meeting.” – Julia Child It’s our birthday!! Today, The Land of Desire kicks off itsย fifth year and what better way to celebrate than with a...Show More
The Bright Sessions | Season 1, Episode 1 - Session 1 with Samantha Barnes, a young woman with a Level 10, Class D ability. atypicalartists.co/support
Sometimes an illusion is the hardest thing to let go of. For Pucciniโs Madama Butterfly, that illusion comes in the form of a distant ship on the horizon, carrying her long lost husband. Benjamin Fran...Show More
Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the...Show More
The introduction to Jia Tolentinoโs Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, hit me hard. In her investigation of how American politics and culture had collapsed into โan unbearable supernova of pe...Show More
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcont...Show More
A man obsessed with meet-cutes falls for all the wrong men and winds up in one mind-boggling situation after another. Will his dream of a fairy-tale romance come true? Plus, a poetic reflection on hom...Show More
This week, a special collaboration with one of our all time favourite podcasts: Radiolab. We produced the episode - Lebanon USA - last year, and Radiolab have taken that original story and elevated it...Show More
From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules โ big and little โ governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can't abide by. In a pitched moment of rule-questio...Show More
A lifelong friendship filled with care, love and personal growth takes a shocking turn in the aftermath of a brutal act of violence
Deep within the Prado in Madrid, an art historian restores Velรกzquez's famous Las Meninas painting while society crumbles outside. A drama by Governor General Award winner Jordan Tannahill.
Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago? This episode originally aired in January 2018. Further reading: Planet Money's bitco...Show More
We all know that computers and networks are vulnerable to hacking and malicious actors, but what about us, the humans who interface with these devices? Con games, scams, and strategic deception are fa...Show More
As scientists have been scrambling to find new and better ways to treatย covid-19, theyโve come across some unexpected allies. Invisible and primordial, these protectors have been with us all along. An...Show More
This Food Non-Fiction episode tells the incredible true story of nachos. This snack was created by and named after Ignacio Anaya who's nickname was Nacho.
When it comes to tarot cards, there is an artistry to designing a world of emperors, fools, priestesses, hermits and other iconic figures. But few people know about Pamela Colman Smith, the woman who ...Show More
Mary Ann Sieghart asks what it takes to be a powerful woman and what holds so many back. Sexism, appearance and encouraging fathers are all up for discussion as Mary Ann talks to former Prime Minister...Show More
Chinese restaurants are an essential part of the American landscape. But a century ago, they were almost extinguished by an organized effort to wipe out Chinese eateries altogether.
Bianca goes looking for a stranger and meets Sophia, a school crossing guard. They spend six months together.ย Featuring: Sartre, twists, and organ music.
The runoff Senate elections in the state of Georgia have been big news, and a driving force behind the scenes for Democrats is Stacey Abrams. She's a lawyer, politician, author, and founder of Fair Fi...Show More
If youโve ever flown on a plane, youโve been directed to study the safety briefing card in your seatback pocket. Every passenger plane, commercial or private, has to have safety cards on board. Mo Lab...Show More
The USS Hope sparks an international frenzy when it mysteriously reappears after a thirty-five year absence. The lone surviving astronaut, Edward (RICHARD MADDEN), looks the exact same age as when he ...Show More
In honor of the many people who work in nail salons across the country who are struggling to keep their businesses from going under during these long closures, The Kitchen Sisters Present French Manic...Show More
Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more...Show More
This episode is slightly different. If you love podcasts as I do then I want to recommend podyssey.fm to you. To be clear I'm not getting anything from this other than sharing a great place to really ...Show More
In the summer of 1856, workers quarrying limestone in a valley outside Dรผsseldorf, Germany, found an odd looking skull. It was elongated and almost chinless. William King, a British geologist, suspec...Show More
In 1968, a trio of Palestinian filmmakers began making films about life under Israeli occupation. Almost 15 years and over 90 films later, their film unit became a dominant force in the Arab film indu...Show More
Chinaโs Lunar New Year movie season is like Americaโs summer blockbuster seasonโฆ on steroids.ย And it got that way thanks to THE DREAM FACTORY โ a wry 1997 comedy directed by Feng Xiaogang, whoโd come...Show More
If thereโs one thing we might regret at the end of life, itโs that we missed out on moments that matteredโnot because we werenโt physically there, but because our mind wandered off to some unknown pla...Show More
The coal plant never saw it coming.When a new coal project was quietly announced, Chibeze Ezekiel began mobilizing his community to resist, by educating them about the danger of fossil fuels. In the e...Show More
In this episode, author Jenny Blake joins me for a conversation about her new book, FREE TIME: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Businessย (https://itsfreetime.com/book), which helps entrepreneurs engineer...Show More
Jill Lepore untangles the strange sci-fi roots of Silicon Valley's extreme capitalism - with its extravagant, existential and extra-terrestrial plans to save humanity. In this world, stock prices can ...Show More
Edward Said was a man, who, in his own words, lived two quite separate lives. First there was the scholar and literary critic of Columbia University, and then there was the fierce critic of American a...Show More
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If you love libraries, you need to listen to this episode on why social infrastructure like libraries are so important to communities. ๐