99% Invisible

On October 17th, 1989, the Oakland A's were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, but just as the game was kicking off-the television broadcast cut out. When the signal came back, it was no longer the baseball game. These were the early mi

"Nearly 15 years since launching as a podcast and KALW radio show, 99 Invisible has continued to explore the hidden designs, spaces, and buildings that shape our lives and inform us about our surroundingsthe way something looks, how it functions, and how

Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing, doctors determined that I had severely injured my right brachial plexus - a crucial nexus of nerve pathways carrying signals back and forth between my spina

As far back as the 13th century, a powerful principle has informed the legal notion of property ownership - in Latin, cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos, or in English: "whoever's is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and al

Imagine a plastic cup and one particular red-wrapped variant will likely come to mind, designed in the 1970s by Robert Leo Hulseman, son of the Solo Cup Company's founder. In the realm of paper cups, there is a parallel icon - the dynamic "Jazz" pattern i