99% Invisible
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Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
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Esperanto is what linguists call a “constructed language.” It isn’t attached to a region, and it didn’t evolve from another language over time. Instead, someone decided to sit down and design the whole thing from scratch.
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October 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Esperanto is what linguists call a “constructed language.” It isn’t attached to a region, and it didn’t evolve from another language over time. Instead, someone decided to sit down and design the whole thing from scratch.
Listen now 👉 https://bit.ly/4zdTbPW
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The Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village has one unique feature originally meant to be a sort of kindness – a special kind of window that the women inside could open.
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October 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village has one unique feature originally meant to be a sort of kindness – a special kind of window that the women inside could open.
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Today, we're revisiting a special project: Our own audio tour of the Guggenheim museum. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4z10qdD
October 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Today, we're revisiting a special project: Our own audio tour of the Guggenheim museum. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4z10qdD
A desert train built for Tony Hawk leads into the strange and thoughtful world of N.D. Austin, a designer of real-life experiences.
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October 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
A desert train built for Tony Hawk leads into the strange and thoughtful world of N.D. Austin, a designer of real-life experiences.
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Football helmets can prevent devastating injuries, but they may also help make an inherently violent game feel safer than it really is.
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October 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Football helmets can prevent devastating injuries, but they may also help make an inherently violent game feel safer than it really is.
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/3UtN9eJ
Want to add to our list of 100 objects?
We're looking for objects that can help us explore the history of labor struggles, The Great Depression, immigration, and American science.
Have the perfect object? Send us an email at [email protected]
We're looking for objects that can help us explore the history of labor struggles, The Great Depression, immigration, and American science.
Have the perfect object? Send us an email at [email protected]
October 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Want to add to our list of 100 objects?
We're looking for objects that can help us explore the history of labor struggles, The Great Depression, immigration, and American science.
Have the perfect object? Send us an email at [email protected]
We're looking for objects that can help us explore the history of labor struggles, The Great Depression, immigration, and American science.
Have the perfect object? Send us an email at [email protected]
A closer look at the messy, beautiful bricks hiding across Chicago 🧱
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October 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
A closer look at the messy, beautiful bricks hiding across Chicago 🧱
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@jamieloftus.bsky.social has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips. Imbued in those little chips is a hidden history of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and morality.
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October 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
@jamieloftus.bsky.social has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips. Imbued in those little chips is a hidden history of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and morality.
Listen now 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Listen now 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
We need you! We've got Signal Awards finalists in 5 different categories and now it's up to listeners like you to vote for your favorites 🏆
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September 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We need you! We've got Signal Awards finalists in 5 different categories and now it's up to listeners like you to vote for your favorites 🏆
Visit the links below to vote for 99PI, Hidden Levels, Service Request, and 100 Objects in this year's signal awards 👇
Visit the links below to vote for 99PI, Hidden Levels, Service Request, and 100 Objects in this year's signal awards 👇
How a Swiss mountain call crossed the Atlantic and helped define the sound of country music.
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September 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
How a Swiss mountain call crossed the Atlantic and helped define the sound of country music.
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4rDuCIU
The Western Electric 500 Series Telephone used to be everywhere. But why was this one phone so much better than everything that came before… or, in some ways, since?
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September 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM
The Western Electric 500 Series Telephone used to be everywhere. But why was this one phone so much better than everything that came before… or, in some ways, since?
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Turn your next walk into a walking tour. 99% Invisible is featured in Hidden Histories, a new series of podcast guides from Apple Podcasts and Apple Maps across 5 iconic cities https://apple.co/podcasts-on-maps
September 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Turn your next walk into a walking tour. 99% Invisible is featured in Hidden Histories, a new series of podcast guides from Apple Podcasts and Apple Maps across 5 iconic cities https://apple.co/podcasts-on-maps
How a movie prop became one of Philadelphia’s most beloved monuments, and sparked a decades-long fight over where it belonged.
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September 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
How a movie prop became one of Philadelphia’s most beloved monuments, and sparked a decades-long fight over where it belonged.
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4iNOZkB
Somewhere between 85 to 95 percent of Black women in the United States have used a chemical hair relaxer at least once in their lifetime. And now research is revealing a physical cost...
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September 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Somewhere between 85 to 95 percent of Black women in the United States have used a chemical hair relaxer at least once in their lifetime. And now research is revealing a physical cost...
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A legendary typeface, a spectacular friendship breakup, and one extremely committed act of revenge.
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September 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
A legendary typeface, a spectacular friendship breakup, and one extremely committed act of revenge.
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How should the military outfit its soldiers to make them as safe and effective as possible?
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September 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
How should the military outfit its soldiers to make them as safe and effective as possible?
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Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Every product has to be tested somehow, and sometimes that means finding increasingly creative ways to break it.
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September 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Every product has to be tested somehow, and sometimes that means finding increasingly creative ways to break it.
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/46LmxZ4
This week, two stories about the strange power of the 1-800 number ☎️
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September 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
This week, two stories about the strange power of the 1-800 number ☎️
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4yduYbp
In 1888, Willard Bundy created the first employee "time clock" — a souped-up grandfather clock that could, for the first time, produce a record of when workers arrived and left.
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August 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In 1888, Willard Bundy created the first employee "time clock" — a souped-up grandfather clock that could, for the first time, produce a record of when workers arrived and left.
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4fNZhPW
Spolia, from a Liverpool neighborhood to ancient Rome.
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August 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Spolia, from a Liverpool neighborhood to ancient Rome.
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4gsaEf7
Why are so many NBA players wearing a compression sleeve on their arm?
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August 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Why are so many NBA players wearing a compression sleeve on their arm?
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Friend of the show Gillian Jacobs joins us for the tale of two rival paleontologists who turn a hunt for dinosaur bones into an all-out scientific war.
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August 18, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Friend of the show Gillian Jacobs joins us for the tale of two rival paleontologists who turn a hunt for dinosaur bones into an all-out scientific war.
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Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4cPNePN
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.
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August 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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.
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://link.podtrac.com/100_objects
Listen to A History of the United States in 100 Objects on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://link.podtrac.com/100_objects
Dinosaurs. Gillian Jacobs. What more could you want?
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August 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Dinosaurs. Gillian Jacobs. What more could you want?
Get early access to next week's episode when you subscribe to 99% Invisible on SiriusXM Podcasts+ 🎧
Get early access to next week's episode when you subscribe to 99% Invisible on SiriusXM Podcasts+ 🎧
A devastating fire put one of Hong Kong's oldest building traditions on trial, but the real story runs much deeper.
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August 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
A devastating fire put one of Hong Kong's oldest building traditions on trial, but the real story runs much deeper.
Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4zdiwtC
Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/4zdiwtC