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Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped n

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Roman Mars and the Flop House team dive into Francis Ford Coppola's intriguing and controversial fil

How did the “15 Minute City,” a simple urban planning idea, spark protests, conspiracy theories, and

After Toronto unveiled its "raccoon-resistant" compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals

What makes The Power Broker endure 50 years on? Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with legendary

This is the eleventh official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power

Roman talks with The Memory Palace creator Nate DiMeo, whose new book brings his poetic history podc

As the last warmth of summer fades, Riis Beach—a hidden queer oasis behind a decaying hospital—faces

Remember when grocery shelves went bare and cargo ships clogged the California coast? That chaos was

Every fall, a vacant Toronto storefront is possessed by Spirit Halloween, the pop-up shop haunting 1

This is the tenth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Br

Today, we have three stories about designs meant to fool you. Camouflage meant to fool U-boats. High

In this bonus episode, Roman unearths the surprising story behind the 99% Invisible's name and delve

In the heart of Copenhagen, a former military base transformed into Christiania, a self-proclaimed a

The unexpected story of how Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite—designed to build the world—was co-

What started as Emily Nussbaum’s “guilty pleasure” of watching Big Brother became a deeper dive into

This is the ninth official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Br

Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Q

Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s

The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like

Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weat