99% Invisible at TED
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Episode 173: Awareness
5By the late 1980s, AIDS had been in the United States for almost a decade. AIDS became the number one killer of young men in ...
172: On Location
So many classic movies have been made in downtown Los Angeles. Though many don't actually take place in downtown Los Angeles. L.A. has played almost every city in the ...
171: Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, pt. 2)
In 1956, General Motors hosted a car expo called “Motorama.” As with all car expos, Motorama was a chance to show off concept cars and other kinds of ...
170: Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1)
On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers, three pilots, and nine flight attendants boarded an Airbus 330 in Rio de Janeiro. This flight, Air France 447, ...
169: Freud’s Couch
In 1889 Sigmund Freud was still relatively new in his field. He’s what we’d call pre-freudian Freud. He was 33 years old, working as an assistant to another ...
168: All In Your Head
People who make horror movies know: if you want to scare someone, use scary music. There are two fundamental ways to make music scary. The first way is to ...
167: Voices in the Wire
The first portable audio recorder was made in 1945 by a man named Tony Schwartz. He moved the VU meter from inside of the unit to the top, so ...
166: Viva La Arquitectura!
On January 3rd, 1961, Che Guevara suggested to Fidel Castro that they go play a round of golf. They drove out to what was then the ritziest, most elite country club ...
Radiotopia at Megapolis Festival! Oakland + SF, June 5-7
The Megapolis Festival is a weekend-long series of events for people to create, experiment with, and experience sound. Now in its fourth year, the festival comes to the Bay Area ...
99% Invisible at TED
I'm really excited to share with you the TED Talk I gave earlier this year at the main TED conference in Vancouver. It was so much fun to be ...
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