99% Invisible

By: Roman Mars
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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.
    Copyright © 2024 Roman Mars. All rights reserved.
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  • Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation

    Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation
    Nov 19 2024

    What makes The Power Broker endure 50 years on? Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with legendary author Robert Caro to explore the humanity, drama, and untold stories behind his iconic book. Recorded live from the New York Historical Society.

    Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation

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    45 mins
  • The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan

    The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan
    Nov 15 2024

    This is the eleventh official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro.

    This week, Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with Brennan Lee Mulligan, a comedian and host with Dropout TV, where he’s the creator of Dimension 20 — a Dungeons & Dragons show that features incredibly complex and campaigns, with improv actors and special effects. And as the Dungeon Master, Brennan leads these stories. Season three of Dimension 20 takes place in a magical New York City, where the main villain is a fictionalized, undead Robert Moses, who shares the real Robert Moses’s passion for building roads and destroying lives through bureaucracy.

    Elliott and Roman also cover the second section of Part 7 (Chapter 42 through Chapter 46), discussing the major story beats and themes.

    The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan

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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • The Memory Palace…Book!

    The Memory Palace…Book!
    Nov 12 2024

    Roman talks with The Memory Palace creator Nate DiMeo, whose new book brings his poetic history podcast to life on the page. They explore how moments of wonder and empathy shape Nate’s stories, turning forgotten history into something intensely personal. Plus, Roman shares two beautifully haunting tales from The Memory Palace that remind us just how close the past really is.

    The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past comes out November 19th and will be available everywhere books are sold. We highly recommend you check it out!

    The Memory Palace...Book!

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    33 mins

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Great Show Wrong Episode

This is not the episode titled Space it’s the episode titled Clinch. Thanks for the great podcast

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Octothorpe: # lb £ pound keyboards mobile

Entertaining meander through the emergence and influence of the hashtag across centuries, technologies and designers

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I so see the world in a different way. Thank you!

Highly recommended, makes me see the world in a different way. Makes me see the world more deeply..

Non-biased, balanced. Highly recommended.

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Wonderful listening

Well worth a listen. Enjoyable content well produced. Fascinating content soothing and wonderful listening take time to have a listen.

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Best design education you can get

I’ve been faking my way thru UX / Product design for 15-years. After a bunch of hands on experience and two masters degrees, I still find myself drawing on past knowledge from 99P as much or more than any other reference set. Also makes for great date night conversations.

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Agenda biased delivery

I just wish we could learn without any bias from any direction coloring the information. I’m bummed dudes.

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