99% Invisible

Thanks also to Alex Vasudevan, author of The Autonomous City. Thanks to Dr. Amy Starcheski, who provided us with oral history interviews with the Lower East Side squatters. This episode is based on her book called Ours to Lose, When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City.

Thanks also to Alex Vasudevan, author of The Autonomous City. Thanks to Dr. Amy Starcheski, who provided us with oral history interviews with the Lower East Side squatters. This episode is based on her book called Ours to Lose, When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City.

Thank you to Miriam Davidson, the author of Convictions of the Heart, for letting us use tape of her interview with Jim Corbett.

Thank you to Miriam Davidson, author of Convictions of the Heart, for letting us use tape of her interview with Jim Corbett.

In the book, Tom Swift's electric rifle is a lethal device that fires balls of electricity that can pass through walls and penetrate armor.

He named his new invention after a science fiction novel from his childhood called Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.

In the book, Tom Swift's electric rifle is a lethal device that fires balls of electricity that can pass through walls and penetrate armor.

I didn't think I'd ever do an episode of 99% Invisible about it. I just read it for fun.

What you need to know about Wild Ones is that it isn't a book about nature. It's a book about how we fit nature into our modern lives.

Wild Ones is about the cutesy stuffed animals, the eco tours, and the Byzantine methods of conservation that evolve when our experience with wildlife goes from something natural to something designed.

Human-animal interaction has become a designed experience and the story of that transition, as the title of the book suggests, is sometimes dismaying and also weirdly reassuring.

I just read it for fun.

What you need to know about Wild Ones is that it isn't a book about nature. It's a book about how we fit nature into our modern lives.

Wild Ones is about the cutesy stuffed animals, the eco tours and the Byzantine methods of conservation that evolve when our experience with wildlife goes from something natural to something designed.

Human-animal interaction has become a designed experience, and the story of that transition, as the title of the book suggests, is sometimes dismaying and also weirdly reassuring.

So I wrote this book about people and wild animals in America, and it only really started because I wanted to show my daughter endangered species in the wild before they disappeared.

He's the author of the book, White Bread, A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf.

In his book, Aaron also talks about the word lord. It comes from a word in Old English.

He's the author of the book, White Bread, A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf.

Specifically, Saint Sebastian as portrayed in oil paintings by Andrea del Castao.

Specifically, Saint Sebastian as portrayed in oil paintings by Andrea del Castao.

Muhammad Ali had to get on the phone with his religious leader Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali had to explain the painting on which this photograph would be based in excruciating detail because Muhammad Ali was concerned about the propriety of using a Christian source for the portrayal of his martyrdom.

After a lengthy theological discussion, Elijah Muhammad gave George Lois his okay.

My comic book, Pinky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, that's my best-known work that I did as a young man. I can't seem to shake the little bastard.

My name is Tom Vanderbilt. I'm a writer in New York and author of Traffic, Why We Drive The Way We Do and What It Says About Us.

This is Tom Vanderbilt. My name is Tom Vanderbilt. I'm a writer in New York and author of Traffic, Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us.

Every three pages of Tom's terrific book, Traffic, I could probably turn into a 99% invisible episode.

I think I first recognized this in your second book, Bonk, where you have sex with your husband in an MRI and have people take pictures of it, like the insides of your bodies.

I think I first recognized this in your second book, Bonk, where you have sex with your husband in an MRI and have people take pictures of it, like the insides of your bodies.

Stephen johnson's new book is called The Infernal Machine a true story of dynamite terror and the rise of the modern detective

Stephen johnson's new book is called The Infernal Machine a true story of dynamite terror and the rise of the modern detective

Stephen johnson's new book is called The Infernal Machine a true story of dynamite terror and the rise of the modern detective

Stephen tells the story of the tension between these two technologies and what we can learn from one of the most explosive periods in american history

Stephen Johnson's new book is called The Infernal Machine a true story of dynamite terror and the rise of the modern detective

I have to confess. I really hate reality television. It's shocking

I know but I did really love this book

one of the biggest surprises to me in researching this book was that the freak out over reality television not only wasn't modern but it had happened before in the late 40s

The bachelor which is by far the scummiest chapter of this book. It really gets at the evil things that producers can do and the way in which as I'm talking about the creation of a workplace. Part of that is the ethic of a workplace and what's considered acceptable and what was considered acceptable in making dating shows. Is something that I think most people in the regular world would consider criminal and certainly just morally corrupt.

I have to confess. I really hate reality television. It's shocking. I know but I did really love this book.

It's decades long creation process how it shapes our world and why love it or hate it you should probably understand reality television

one of the biggest surprises to me in researching this book was that the freak out over reality television not only wasn't modern but it had happened before in the late 40s

The bachelor which is by far the scummiest chapter of this book. It really gets at the evil things that producers can do and the way in which as I'm talking about the creation of a workplace. Part of that is the ethic of a workplace and what's considered acceptable and what was considered acceptable in making dating shows Is something that I think most people in the regular world would consider Criminal and Certainly just morally corrupt.

In her new book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in a Time of Serial Killers, Caroline argues that the wave of serial killing in the 1970s and 80s might be related to the smelting industry's environmental pollution.

Murderland is a book with a rotating cast of villains. There's Asarco, the company that's operated giant smokestacks across the country since the late 1800s. There's the deadly Mercer Island floating bridge and the engineers behind it. And then, of course, there are the serial killers of the Pacific Northwest.

In Murderland, you trace the rise and fall of this company, Asarco. And on top of that timeline and geography, the book weaves in and out stories from your own life and memory and the rise and fall of the Mercer Island Bridge.

I found the cover of your book really striking. You have this, a sarco smelting plant in the background and Ted Bundy's face in the foreground and the images kind of blend into each other. Ted Bundy's head is also the cloud of pollution coming out of the smokestack behind him.

The book is a blend of true crime, memoir, and environmental history, all woven together. And it also features a lot of intriguing design elements.

In her new book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in a Time of Serial Killers, Caroline argues that the wave of serial killing in the 1970s and 80s might be related to the smelting industry's environmental pollution.

Murderland is a book with a rotating cast of villains. There's Asarco, the company that's operated giant smokestacks across the country since the late 1800s. There's the deadly Mercer Island floating bridge and the engineers behind it. And then, of course, there are the serial killers of the Pacific Northwest.

I found the cover of your book really striking. You have this, a Asarco smelting plant in the background and Ted Bundy's face in the foreground and the images kind of blend into each other.

The book weaves in and out stories from your own life and memory and the rise and fall of the Mercer Island Bridge, and you write in great detail about the personal histories and activities of various serial killers.

Murderland was a culmination of a lot of open questions you seemed to have throughout your entire life, and it made for a fascinating, if tragic, story of an era that is fortunately seems to be over.

Her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Prairie Fires, was about Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author who wrote the children's book series, Little House on the Prairie.

And her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Prairie Fires, was about Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author who wrote the children's book series, Little House on the Prairie.

My name is Mary Roach and my book is called Replaceable You. And the subtitle, which doesn't really tell you that much, is Adventures in Human Anatomy.

My name is Mary Roach and my book is called Replaceable You. And the subtitle, which doesn't really tell you that much, is Adventures in Human Anatomy.

And in the book, Replaceable You, you talk about this organization called CORE.

This is Rachel S. Gross. I'm a history professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. And she is the author of Shopping All the Way to the Woods, How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America.

I am a history professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. And she is the author of Shopping All the Way to the Woods, How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America.

about 20 years ago, a great social scientist named Robert Putnam wrote a book called Bowling Alone.

This is Pat Morrison, LA Times columnist and author of the book Rio LA.

She says that even before human intervention, the LA River behaved in peculiar ways.

So she says that in the late 1920s, as Los Angeles was experiencing this super rapid growth, the LA Chamber of Commerce actually had all of these concerns about all of the things that came with population growth, stuff like pollution and traffic and disappearing public park space.

And I think that's the thing that changes in people's minds when they talk about it as a river.

Don't make Pat Morrison cry.