The Ouija board is so simple and iconic that it looks like it comes from another time, or maybe another realm. The game is not ...
Hi everyone, Roman here. Thank you, backers, for making 99% Invisible possible. For the first Kickstarter in 2012, the question was: should 99% Invisible exist? In the second campaign, we asked ...
The first print advertisement for Wonder Bread came out before the bread itself. It stated only that “a wonder” was coming. In a lot of ways, the statement ...
This week's image correspondence was inspired by episode #136, Lights Out. When I think of the city at night, I always think of Iwan Baan's photograph of a darkened ...
On July 13th, 1977, lightning struck an electricity transmission line in New York City, causing the line's automatic circuit breaker to kick in. The electricity from the affected ...
Everyone has tried it at some point. The authorities started turning a blind eye years ago, but it wasn't officially legalized until the summer of 2014. Finally, after more ...
Episode #53, "The Xanadu Effect", ponders the effects of colossal buildings and whether they can be signifiers of economic collapse. This week's image correspondence brings you two buildings ...
Straight lines form the core of our built environment. Building in straight lines makes predicting costs and calculating structural loads easier, since building materials come in linear units. Straight lines might be logical, ...
There’s a photograph we have tacked to our studio at 99% Invisible HQ. The photo, taken 1899, shows three men, all looking very fashionable, suspended mid-air on the lifted arm ...
"There is a whole universe in every single object that becomes even bigger when put in a relationship with a person," says Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the Department ...
Hi everyone, Roman here. Thank you, backers, for making 99% Invisible ...
This week's image correspondence was inspired by episode #136, Lights ...
99pi all-star Melodium has a new album out called Taramae, which ...
99pi favorite, OK Ikumi is back with a new digital EP ...
We are a founding member of Radiotopia from PRX– a collective ...
There’s a term that epitomizes what we radio producers aspire ...
What happens when we build big? Julia Barton remembers going to ...
(Above: Teddy Bear exits the scene to make way for ...