Nate DiMeo
Recent Pieces from Nate DiMeo
99% Invisible #27- Bridge to the Sky
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From: Roman Mars
There are rules that dicate what you can build and how. Bradford Gilbert just didn't believe in them.
episode 36 (Six Scenes from the life of William James Sidis, Wonderful Boy)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which we hear the incredible story of William James Sidis, famous boy prodigy. Taught himself Latin at 3, graduated Harvard at 16, collector of streetcar transfer tickets at 28.
episode 32 (gigantic)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which we hear the fascinating (and sad) story of the first elephant brought to America. And the man who loved her.
episode 31 (looking up)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which people party like it's 1999 back in 1910. A postcard from the roof of the Waldorf-Astoria 90 years ago. The place to be as Halley's Comet returned and many feared ...
episode 30 (nee weinberg)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which we hear about a great American imposter: the serial pretender, Stanley Clifford Weyman. An average guy from Brooklyn determined to live an incredible life who ...
episode 28 (babysitting)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which we hear the story of Don Hornig. A 25 year old scientist asked to babysit the A-Bomb during the night before the Trinity test changed everything.
episode 27 (the sisters fox)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which we hear the story of the Fox sisters: two American kids growing up in the heartland (or upstate New York) who, at the ripe old ages of 11 and 14 concocted a prank ...
episode 26 (citius, altius, fortius, horrendius)
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From: Nate DiMeo
in which we here the outrageous story of the third olympic marathon--the first event of the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
(I have not yet begun to rot)
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From: Nate DiMeo
In which we hear the story of Revolutionary War hero, John Paul Jones, and the Civil War hero who found his coffin, 100 years after it had been lost in a Paris cememtary.
