Episodes
In this bonus episode, Lasha talks about extra reporting she did for Towers of Silence on the current state of vulture conservation.
Published 05/03/24
Published 05/03/24
Our pal Gillian Jacobs takes us through the history of poison control and the yucky face meant to warn children about the dangers lurking in their kitchen cabinets
Published 04/30/24
How the loss of vultures in India has put an ancient burial tradition in crisis
Published 04/23/24
Featuring the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and covering the second section of Part 4, chapters 16-20.
Published 04/19/24
Dan Pashman embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about the evolution of pasta more broadly.
Published 04/16/24
Bright, flamboyant central African fashion
Published 04/09/24
The history of the chambre de bonne, the tiny French apartment type that may be, finally, on the way out.
Published 04/02/24
A 99pi guide to some of our favorite design features of Athens, Georgia.
Published 03/29/24
The garbage disposer and the dream of a garbage-free city
Published 03/19/24
Featuring Blank Check co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims covering the first section of Part 4, chapters 11-15
Published 03/15/24
The constant and sometimes fraught back and forth between cartoons and toys, as exemplified by Transformers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Published 03/13/24
Understanding the clunky Prop 65 warnings on products
Published 03/05/24
A 99pi guide to some of our favorite design features of Santa Fe.
Published 03/02/24
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book and originally it was a totally unlicensed publication
Published 02/27/24
It’s been said that history is written by the person at the typewriter. But who did the person who made history depend on?
Published 02/23/24
How much film and television shapes us as individuals and as a society, far beyond what we give it credit for
Published 02/21/24
Featuring New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie covering Part 3.
Published 02/16/24
How White Castle invented fast food
Published 02/13/24
The interblock parks of Sofia, Bulgaria that are caught between old failed communism and new hyper capitalism
Published 02/06/24
There are memorials to lost fishermen, lost astronauts, even lost members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. What should a COVID pandemic memorial look like?
Published 01/30/24
A 99pi guide to some of our favorite design features of Chicago
Published 01/26/24
The design evolution of the seemingly simple, but not all that simple, skateboard
Published 01/24/24
Featuring author Robert Caro covering The Introduction, Part 1, and Part 2.
Published 01/19/24
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