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Bought by North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #36- Super Bon Bonn (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

What happens to a city when its purpose is stripped away virtually overnight?

Bought by North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #35- Elegy for WTC (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

A building’s worth is an infinitesimal fraction of the worth a person’s life. But a building is still a living thing in a way.

Bought by North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #34- The Speed of Light for Pyramids (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

What we can learn from architects who lived thousands of years ago: make buildings last longer.

Bought by North Country Public Radio and HowSound

99% Invisible #33- A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

This simple graphic design has saved thousands of lives.

Bought by North Country Public Radio and Third Coast Festival/Re:sound

99% Invisible #25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

Bought by North Country Public Radio and Third Coast Festival/Re:sound

99% Invisible #23- You Are Listening To (Standard 4:30 Version Only)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

When open-source data becomes a thing of beauty.

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #22- Free Speech Monument (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KUOW, and The Story

99% Invisible #21- BLDGBLOG On Sound (Standard 4:30 Version Only)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

The word of the day is: archaeoacoustics.

Bought by KUOW, The Story, and North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #20- Nikko Concrete Commando (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

The story of the guy who etched his name in 1,000 slabs of San Francisco concrete--and the reporter who spent years tracking him down.

Bought by The Story and North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #18- Check Cashing Stores (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

One could argue that check cashing stores do a lot of things that are just plain wrong. But given so many people use them, what are they doing right?

Bought by North Country Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW

99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use.

Bought by North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #14- The Periodic Table (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KUOW, North Country Public Radio, and KZYX

99% Invisible #10- 99% Sound and Feel (Standard 4:30 version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Even though he was deaf, Beethoven wrote some of the greatest works of music of all time. So when Chris Downey started losing his sight, he didn't...

Bought by KUOW and North Country Public Radio

99% Invisible #19- Liberation Squares (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by North Country Public Radio and KUOW

Materialism, Youtube-d

From: Youth Media Project

Caption: Photo by: Miran Rijavec, Flickr

An audio Collage about "Materialism" constructed of the first 200 responses when searching 'materialism' in youtube.

Forest to Desert

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera

An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Bought by Public Radio Remix

Galapagos Wind Turbines

From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio

Massive wind turbines generate half of island's electricity.

PRX - Pieces for Tone: Sound-Rich

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