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99% Invisible
Roman Mars
754 episodes
2 days ago
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.
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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.
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Episodes (20/754)
99% Invisible
Hidden Levels #6: Segagaga
One SEGA employee chronicles the company’s struggles the only way he knows how: by turning it into a game.
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19 hours ago
41 minutes 20 seconds

99% Invisible
Hidden Levels #5: Press B to Touch Grass
From blocky biomes to breathtaking open worlds, video games are teaching us new ways to see, build, and even save nature.
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3 days ago
41 minutes 47 seconds

99% Invisible
Hidden Levels #4: Machinima
Back in the 90s, artists turned video games into movie sets, and their wildest ideas are finally hitting documentaries.
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1 week ago
45 minutes 8 seconds

99% Invisible
Hidden Levels #3: This Game Wants YOU
Before Fortnite and Call of Duty ruled the scene, the US Army quietly shaped the early 2000s with a wildly popular, free shooter designed to excite young people about enlisting.
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1 week ago
44 minutes 9 seconds

99% Invisible
Hidden Levels #2: Stick It to 'Em
From airplanes to Pac-Man to the battlefield, the joystick has quietly shaped the way humans connect with machines.
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2 weeks ago
41 minutes 36 seconds

99% Invisible
Hidden Levels #1: Mr. Boomshakalaka
Step back into the ’90s, when dunks broke backboards, catchphrases caught fire, and one arcade game turned every kid into an NBA superstar.
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2 weeks ago
37 minutes 16 seconds

99% Invisible
Get Played with Roman Mars and Ben Brock Johnson
In anticipation of the release of Hidden Levels, Roman and Ben join Heather Anne Campbell (Rick and Morty) and Matt Apodaca of Get Played to talk controllers, culture, and why video games might just be running the world.
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3 weeks ago
43 minutes 24 seconds

99% Invisible
The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City
Like a shadow epilogue to The Power Broker, this story plunges into the chaos of 1970s New York where debt, unions, and one brutal headline nearly broke the city.
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3 weeks ago
58 minutes 27 seconds

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #2: Rep. Sharice Davids
This month, Roman and Elizabeth dive into Article One with Rep. Sharice Davids.
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4 weeks ago
1 hour 17 minutes 13 seconds

99% Invisible
The New Jungle
In a Colorado meatpacking town, refugees fleeing persecution find themselves in some of the most dangerous jobs in America.
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1 month ago
35 minutes 8 seconds

99% Invisible
Replaceable You
Mary Roach dives into the strange, funny, and unsettling world of designing new body parts, from pig hearts to prosthetic feet, revealing just how messy replacing ourselves can be.
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1 month ago
34 minutes 2 seconds

99% Invisible
Revisiting The 99% Invisible City
Roman and Kurt describe Oakland as it is.
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1 month ago
41 minutes 44 seconds

99% Invisible
The 99PI Anniversary Special: 15 for 15
For 99PI’s 15th anniversary, Roman sits in the hot seat to answer 15 eclectic questions, touching on everything from his dream merch to the one object he's always wanted to cover on the show.
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1 month ago
50 minutes 58 seconds

99% Invisible
Ambassador Bridge
A billionaire family’s private bridge empire shaped Detroit for decades, sparking battles over power, neighborhoods, and the future of an international crossing.
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1 month ago
40 minutes 13 seconds

99% Invisible
All About That Bass
Vintage music barely had any bass. Today’s hits are all about the low end. What changed?
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2 months ago
25 minutes 51 seconds

99% Invisible
Sister Aimee and the Birth of the Megachurch
Aimee Semple McPherson built America’s first megachurch, blended showbiz with salvation, and vanished in a scandal that captivated the nation.
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2 months ago
36 minutes 3 seconds

99% Invisible
Weeding is Fundamental Revisited
The fight over weeding books from the library.
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2 months ago
38 minutes 3 seconds

99% Invisible
Air-Borne
Old ideas about air and disease were wrong on the science, but looking to the past might actually help us design healthier buildings today.
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2 months ago
40 minutes 46 seconds

99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #1: Nikole Hannah-Jones
This month, Roman and Elizabeth discuss the Preamble, alongside Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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3 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes 17 seconds

99% Invisible
The Quiet Storm
How a radio show born at a small college station in DC and dedicated to smooth, romantic love songs transformed black radio and reshaped love lives across the country.
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3 months ago
40 minutes 40 seconds

99% Invisible
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.