100 Objects #24: White House Solar Panels
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter took to the roof of the White House to announce the installation of 32 solar panels. In that speech, he outlined all the things that they could become: a curiosity, a m...
13 Nov 39min
Perfectly Leveraged for the Squat
Jan Todd was considered by many to be the strongest woman in the world back in the 1970s. She set world records, lifted the Dinnie Stones in Scotland, and wrote the first rulebook for women's powerlif...
10 Nov 35min
Zone Zero
Across the West, there's a contentious debate playing out over how to adapt homes and neighborhoods to this era of increasingly extreme wildfire risk. In Berkeley, California, it's become a particular...
3 Nov 37min
100 Objects #22: AOL Disc
In 1998, the recording industry was thriving. But the company pressing more compact discs than anyone else in America wasn't a record label…it was an internet company: America Online. The AOL Disc was...
30 Okt 34min
Doktoro Esperanto
Esperanto is what linguists call a “constructed language.” It isn’t attached to a nation or a region, and it didn’t evolve from another language over time. Instead, nearly 150 years ago, someone decid...
27 Okt 35min
100 Objects #21: Window from the House of D
In 1932, the Women's House of Detention—New York City's first women's prison—opened in the heart of Greenwich Village. It was opened to make "wayward" women quiet, private, and properly feminine. And ...
23 Okt 37min
Audio Guide of the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece
This episode is sponsored by Acura.From the outside, the building is a light gray spiral, and from the inside, the art is displayed on one long ramp that curves up towards a glass skylight in the ceil...
21 Okt 29min
