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23.03.2024
325- The Worst Way to Start a City
Sam Anderson, author of Boom Town, guides us through the chaotic founding of Oklahoma City, which happened all in one day in 1889 Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Punk Style: Articles of Interest #6
Groups of people who historically haven’t had a voice, have expressed themselves on their bodies. Through their style, their hair, their tattoos, their piercings, and what they wear. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5
You can learn a lot from observing an old pair of blue jeans. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Hawaiian Shirts: Articles of Interest #4
Much of understanding an aloha shirt is about paying attention to what is on the shirt itself. It’s about looking at the pattern to see the story it tells. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Pockets: Articles of Interest #3
Womenswear is littered with fake pockets that don’t open, or shallow pockets that can hardly hold more than a paperclip. If women's clothes have pockets at all, they are often and smaller and just fit... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Plaid: Articles of Interest #2
Lots of different groups have adopted plaid over the course of the 20th century, but if we want to explore how this pattern proliferated, we’ve got to go to Scotland. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Kids' Clothes: Articles of Interest #1
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear: a six-part series looking clothing within 99% Invisible. Episode 1: Kids' Clothes Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
324- Billboard Boys: The Greatest Radio Contest of All Time
A radio contest offering a $18,000 modular home to the person who will live on a billboard platform the longest gets out of control Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
323- The House that Came in the Mail
The Sears catalog tells the tale of a world -- itemized. And starting in 1908, the company that offered America everything began offering what just might be its most audacious product line ever: house... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Blepharoplasty is often done to lift loose or sagging skin around the upper eyelids caused by aging. But for a lot of people of Asian descent, this surgery is not strictly about aging and more commonl... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
The first episode in a fascinating series about the fight over federal land in the western US and the family at the center of it. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
For Americans, the sight of pagoda roofs and dragon gates means that you are in Chinatown. Whether in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas, the chinoiserie look is distinctive. But for p... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
For Montecito, California, fire is predictable and it is inevitable. Now, coupled with multi-year drought, it is becoming unmanageable. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
After the massive Panorama Fire in southern California in 1980, a young fire researcher named Jack Cohen went in to investigate the houses that were destroyed and he found something surprising Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Four times every day, on radios all across the British Isles, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script. "And now the Shipping Forecast..." Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show with host Ian Chillag in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story -- and everything ... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
In 1962, an ad man decided that excited and exclamatory questions needed their own end punctuation: the iterrobang Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
VIDEO- Why Danger Symbols Can't Last Forever with Vox
The world is full of icons that warn us to be afraid — to stay away from this or not do that. And many of these are easy to understand because they represent something recognizable, like a fire, or a ... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
In the United Kingdom, the freedom to walk through private land is known as “the right to roam.” The movement to win this right was started in the 1930s by a rebellious group of young people who calle... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord, had effectively declared war on the Colombian state. The bloodshed was focused in the city of Medellin. As the years went on, Medellin became the ... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
As the U.S. war effort ramped up in the early 1940s, the Navy put out a request for chair design submissions. They needed a chair that was fireproof, waterproof, lightweight and strong enough to survi... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago that's the home to a vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant one can imagine. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it's easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are e... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
About a third of mobile homeowners live in parks where they rent a plot of land for their home. This arrangement is filled with uncertainty. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
When a doctor reveals a terminal diagnosis to a patient -- that process is as delicate a procedure as any surgery, with potentially serious consequences if things go wrong. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
For nearly five decades, the laugh track was ubiquitous on television sitcoms, but in the early 2000s, it began to disappear. What happened? Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
304- Gander International Airport
The Gander Airport in Newfoundland was once the easternmost airfield in North America, so when transatlantic air travel was new and difficult, Gander played in critical role in getting people back and... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Andre Walker became famous for being Oprah Winfrey’s hair stylist, but he is also known for something else: a system that he created back in the 1990s to market his line of hair care products. The sys... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
To this day, architects tend to turn their noses up at Las Vegas, or simply dismiss it as irrelevant to serious design theory. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
The battlefield has always been at the mercy of the climate, but there was a time in U.S. military history when we did more than just pray for advantageous weather. We tried to create it. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
300- Airships and the Future that Never Was
They are hulking, but graceful -- human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public imagination, playing a recurring role in our dreams of... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
The way we draw our political districts has a huge effect on U.S. politics, but the process is also greatly misunderstood. Gerrymandering has become a scapegoat for what’s wrong with the polarized Ame... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
All around the country, there stands a figure so much a part of historical architecture and urban landscapes that she is rarely noticed. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped them deep into the Amazon rainforest. Workers cut do... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
297- Blood, Sweat and Tears (City of the Future, Part 2)
The story of the Bijlmer continues Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
296- Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)
After World War 2, city planners in Amsterdam wanted to design the perfect “City of the Future.” They decided to build a new neighborhood, close to Amsterdam, that would be a perfect encapsulation of ... Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
295- Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar
Tom Geismar has been a driving force in the field of design and graphic identity for over 60 years. The influence of the firm he co-founded can be felt in logos you see every day. Подробнее000
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23.03.2024
Three stories about the physical border at the southern edge of the U.S. Подробнее000
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