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    Fixing the Hobo Suit Film, 99 Percent Invisible

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    99 PI is all about design, sometimes it annoys me that I can't see the amazing things that they're talking about; paintings, sculptures, objects, buildings or in this case Costumes and Film Scenes!

    I made this film to fill that void. If they mention it, this film will show it to you. It plays the whole podcast interspersed with relevant images, videos, and text, don't forget to subscribe to 99 PI!

    Check out more of my films on my website, h-j-l-r.com.

    This video is for educational purposes only.

  • 99% Invisible Podcast Ep. 206 - The White Elephant of Tel Aviv

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    Israeli buses regularly make international headlines, be it for suicide bombings, fights over gender segregation, or clashes concerning Shabbat schedules. One particular ill-fated megastructure, however, has been at the nexus of various lesser-publicized conflicts: a building in Tel Aviv designed to be the largest bus station in the world.
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    Tel Aviv Central Bus Station as seen from above

    At 2.5 million square feet, the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station was the product of a grand vision to build an indoor micro-metropolis. Its expansive plans featured a shopping mall with thousands of stores, services and entertainment offerings. The structure even came to house a (now deserted) subterranean theater, originally meant to entertain people waiting for their bus.

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    This vision gave way to a darker reality, resulting in what reporter Yochai Maital describes as “a derelict eight-story behemoth and modern day Tower of Babel, which mirrors much of modern Israeli history, with its grand vision and messy implementation.”

    Though construction began in the 1960s, the building would not be inaugurated until decades later. The station was initially designed by Ram Karmi in 1967 but eventually completed in 1993 by architects Yael Rothshild and Moti Bodek. The project became something of a white elephant, a nickname recognized rather overtly during the opening ceremony when a white elephant balloon dropped in on the festivities.
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    Perspectival section drawing of the original building design

    The layout is intentionally confusing, a “multi-central” maze of misleading corridors, dark spaces and many now-abandoned places. The perplexing floor plans were inspired by Jerusalem’s historic Old City. The architect wanted the building to look and feel like a system of small alleyways, disorienting but cozy and familiar. In some sense, it has been successful; the building feels to many quite like a labyrinth, and even people who work there get lost sometimes within its walls.

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    Today, entire sections of the structure are uninhabited or used only for illicit purposes; old shops and winding halls conceal sex workers, drug sellers, rave throwers and others who appreciate the winding darkness.

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    H Day - 99% Invisible

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    Learning English use a limited vocabulary and are read at a slower pace than VOA's other English broatcast. Previously known as special English. Like and Share

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    Bathysphere Video, 99 Percent Invisible

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    99 PI is all about design, sometimes it annoys me that I can't see the amazing things that they're talking about; paintings, sculptures, objects, buildings or in this case fish and submarines!

    I made this film to fill that void. If they mention it, this film will show it to you. It plays the whole podcast, don't forget to subscribe to 99 PI!

    Check out more of my films on my website, h-j-l-r.com

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    Flying Food Film, 99 Percent Invisible

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    99 PI is all about design, sometimes it annoys me that I can't see the amazing things that they're talking about; paintings, sculptures, objects, buildings or in this case the art of food adverts!

    I made this film to fill that void. If they mention it, this film will show it to you. It plays the whole podcast interspersed with relevant images, videos, and text, don't forget to subscribe to 99 PI!

    Check out more of my films on my website, h-j-l-r.com.

    This video is for educational purposes only.

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    Reefer Madness Film, 99 Percent Invisible

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    The latest, a relic from the 99pi archive! I love shipping, the logistics, the imagery and this podcasts lent itself perfectly. Any episodes you'd like to see as a film just pop them in the comments below.

    Check out more of my films on my website, h-j-l-r.com.

    This video is for educational purposes only.

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    99% Invisible - GitHub Universe 2016

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    99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. With over 120 million downloads, 99% Invisible is one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes.

    Join host Roman Mars as he presents stories from 99pi on the Universe stage.

    About GitHub Universe:
    GitHub Universe is a two-day conference dedicated to the creativity and curiosity of the largest software community in the world. Sessions cover topics from team culture to open source software across industries and technologies.

    For more information on GitHub Universe, check the website:

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    Hard to Love a Brute Film, 99 Percent Invisible

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    99 PI is all about design, sometimes it annoys me that I can't see the amazing things that they're talking about; paintings, sculptures, objects, buildings or in this case the under appreciation of concrete architecture!

    I made this film to fill that void. If they mention it, this film will show it to you. It plays the whole podcast interspersed with relevant images, videos, and text, don't forget to subscribe to 99 PI!

    Check out more of my films on my website, h-j-l-r.com.

    This video is for educational purposes only.

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    Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing youve never noticed | Roman Mars

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    Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don't have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything.

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    Structural Integrity Video, 99 Percent Invisible

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    99 PI is all about design, sometimes it annoys me that I can't see the amazing things that they're talking about; paintings, sculptures, objects, buildings or in this case the New York Skyscraper that almost fell over in bad weather!

    I made this film to fill that void. If they mention it, this film will show it to you. It plays the whole podcast interspersed with relevant images, videos, and text, don't forget to subscribe to 99 PI!

    Check out more of my films on my website, h-j-l-r.com.

    This video is for educational purposes only.

  • 99% Invisible Podcast Ep. 209 - Supertall 101

    19:27

    Starting in the late 1990s, the government of Taipei began looking into how they could turn global attention to their city, the capital of the small island of Taiwan.

    The initial idea was to create two 66-story office towers, which would be the tallest in Taiwan’s capital and one of the tallest in the country. The city government then raised its aspirations, targeting 88 stories, the same number as the twinned Petronas Towers in Malaysia (which, at the time, were the tallest in buildings in the world). Then they had another idea to go even higher than the tallest buildings in the world, and make their building a perfectly round 100. In the end, they decided to go above and beyond, settling on hundred and one floors.

    Erected in 2004, Taipei 101 is 1,667 feet (508 meters) tall. It’s more than twice the height of any other building in the city. Building such a tall structure is never simple, but doing so in a place like Taipei means accounting for earthquakes and typhoons. The developers would have to engineer the building to withstand extreme environmental conditions, and at the same time, convince tenants and visitors it was safe and comfortable to inhabit.

    In theory, there are no technological restrictions on the height of a building. As long as there’s enough ground space, one could build as tall a building as one wants. It ultimately comes down to procuring permissions and financial resources.

    In Taipei, securing funding for the new building was a huge endeavor, spearheaded by the Taipei city government. Once the mayor selected the developer, Harace Lin, they partnered with the private sector, and a handful of local financial institutions signed on as shareholders, including the local banks and stock exchange.

    Getting other city departments on board meant factoring in things like flight patterns, which would have to be adjusted around the tower. Being able to tell civic stakeholders that the goal was “the world’s tallest building” helped sell the idea and make such workarounds happen.
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    Taipei 101 by Avery Trufelman

    Once the land was secured an the air was cleared, the city was ready to create their urban icon. For the design of the building, they turned to starchitect C.Y. Lee, who wanted a tower that was distinctive- one that couldn’t just as easily appear on a skyline in London or Sao Paolo or Mumbai. Lee envisioned a high-rise pagoda, vertically elongated and clad in green glass.

    The skyscraper was divided into eight segments, a intentional lucky number choice because “eight” in Chinese sounds like the word for “wealth” (especially important for a financial building). For even more good luck, giant gold coins adorn all four sides at the base, and dragons and clouds decorate the buildings corners. After all, Taipei 101, prone to storms and seismic activity, needed all the luck it could get.

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    Ideally, buildings on seismically active ground should be a bit flexible, so they can roll with the earth. However, since Taipei also faces strong typhoons, the tower couldn’t be too flexible, otherwise it would sway too much and occupants would feel seasick. This is why Taipei 101 chose to employ a tuned mass damper.
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    Tuned mass damper

    A tuned mass damper is essentially a counterweight against the winds and it can take various forms. In some buildings, the TMD is a weight on rollers. In others, it is a block of concrete suspended in a pool of liquid. In Taipei 101, the TMD is a gigantic pendulum. The motion of the damper lags the building, slowing the sway of the structure.

    A number of tall, thin skyscrapers have dampers of some sort, but usually they are hidden behind closed doors on locked floors. In Taipei 101, however, the enormous damper is the star attraction of the building:
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    Diagram by Armand du Plessis, CC BY 3.0

    The massive, 728-ton orb, made of 41 stacks of solid steel, weighs as much as 132 elephants. It is suspended by four bundles of thick cables- and all of it is painted gold.

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    Just seeing this feat of engineering helps occupants feel safer. Beyond making the damper visible and painting it gold- the developers went a step further and hired the Sanrio Company, the same group that had designed Hello Kitty. The company came up with Damper Babies:
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    Damper Babies via Taipei 101

    The damper babies are little cartoon figures with the body of a damper, a big head and little arms and legs. They comes in black, red, yellow, silver and green, each with their own personality. The Damper Babies’ faces, with vertical lines for eyes in a circular mouth, subtly spell out “101.”

  • Unseen City: Official book trailer

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    For the last three years I’ve been writing a book about urban wilderness. Today, it’s finally out. The book is called Unseen City, and it’s a guide to some of the flora and fauna around us that are so common we no longer see them. Check out the video above for the full explanation.

  • UFO AND ALIENS. NEW 2017 VIDEO. Dr. Steven Greer

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  • The 7 Most Mysterious Space Discoveries of 2016

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    Meet the Great Void, the WTF Star and the Dark Galaxy… 2016 and recent years saw a wealth of strange and mind-bending discoveries, as well as findings that simply contradict the human understanding of the Universe itself. From a giant water world planet orbiting nearby to possible extraterrestrial signals and other anomalies from outer space, these finds have made sure that 2016 has been an incredible year...


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  • Toroidal Bubbles

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    May 26, 2011

    Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. * Implosion Magazine, No. 83, p.16

    You must learn to think one octave higher. Only then will you learn how implosion energy works. * Implosion Magazine, No. 83, p.2

    Aether-Ether:

    The Infinitely elastic medium FORMERLY postulated as the medium of propagation of electromagnetic waves.

    All perceptible/ponderable matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles all things and phenomena.

    A neutral Aether consisting of countless myriads of inconceivably small particles per cubic centimetre having no electric charge and no mass.

    Ponderable bodies and other media filling space all possess a dielectric level.

    Example: (Lightning always striking earth 24/7)

    Please Note : Water's Dimagnetic/Dielectric properties

    This fits the non-relativistic cosmogony of the Aether science that predated relativistic theory; neither wave nor Bohr particle, but a wavefront that is perambulating on a unseen neutral ether consisting of countless myriads of inconceivably small particles per cubic centimeter having no electric charge and no mass

    The famous Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 showed no movement of the Earth through the Aether. So what did the scientists do?....They simply got rid of the Aether and stated that it did not exist and that was the reason for the NULL results in the experiment!!! :(

    This is where Dark Matter Got Invented and the Old Sacred Aether Sciences got thrown out the window :(

    This necessitated the invention of Albert Einstein's BIZARRE theories of the universe without an Aether.

    One must keep in mind that Einstein was involved with aether theories of the time (one of his first papers was titled, The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields),He had access to patents and documentation as he worked as a library clerk at the Swiss patent office since 1902 and undoubtly gave more than a good look at them, before the Relativistic theory popped up for the second time (the original being the theory of Boscovich).

    (Here's Albert Einstein's First Paper titled The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields)

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    According to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an aether.

    According to the general theory of relativity space without aether is unthinkable. - A.Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity, 1922, page 23.

    Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
    I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

    James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
    ...we cannot help thinking that in every place where we find these lines of force, some physical state or action must exist in sufficient energy to produce the actual phenomena.

    (Vacuum has friction after all) Physics Review A 82, 063827 (2010) [10 pages] Thermal and vacuum friction acting on rotating particles)

    In looking at the various environmental issues we are faced with, and the tasks that we need to fulfill for the planet, if we could get more than 10 percent of the people consciously aware, than I believe we could pull the 80 percent in that direction, too.-Dr. Masaru Emoto

    Epistemology & Research by Nicholas Ellis @ youtube.com/sn1pe352

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    An Architects Code , from 99% Invisible - Are American Prisons Humane?

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  • Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson

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    The Higgs Boson is awesome but it's NOT responsible for most of your mass! Thanks to audible.com for supporting this episode:
    The Higgs mechanism is meant to account for the mass of everything, right? Well no, only the fundamental particles, which means that electrons derive their mass entirely from the Higgs interaction but protons and neutrons, made of quarks, do not. In fact the quark masses are so small that they only make up about 1% of the mass of the proton (and a similar fraction of the neutron). The rest of the mass comes from the energy in the gluon field. Gluons are massless, but there is so much energy in the field that by E=mc^2 there is a significant amount of mass there. This is where most of your mass comes from and the mass of virtually everything around you.

    Thanks to Professor Derek Leinweber for his great images, animations and explanations. Check out his site to find out more:

  • Flying Food Film, 99 Percent Invisible

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    99 PI is all about design, sometimes it annoys me that I cant see the amazing things that theyre talking about; paintings, sculptures, objects, buildings or in this .



    The latest, a relic from the 99pi archive! I love shipping, the logistics, the imagery and this podcasts lent itself perfectly. Any episodes youd like to see as a film .

    Israeli buses regularly make international headlines, be it for suicide bombings, fights over gender segregation, or clashes concerning Shabbat schedules.

  • 99% Invisible Podcast Ep. 210 - Unseen City: Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

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    Humans form cities from concrete, metal and glass, designing structures and infrastructure primarily to serve a single bipedal species. Walking down a familiar city street, it is easy to overlook squirrels climbing in trees, weeds growing up through cracks in the concrete, and pigeons pecking along the sidewalk. Those creatures that do manage to live all around us, thriving alongside humans, are rarely celebrated for their ingenuity. In many cases, however, such synanthropes (from the Greek syn [“together with”] + anthro [“man”]) tell fascinating stories of urban fortitude.

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    Author and amateur naturalist Nathanael Johnson began digging into some of these everyday urban species, leading him to write Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness. The book uncovers weeds that are tastier than you imagined and small mammals smarter than you suspected. The author researched various plants and animals, including that most infamous species of urban bird so many people love to hate, sometimes referred to as a “flying rat.”

    Pigeons have earned quite a reputation over time for their bothersome presence in the urban landscape, but they have not always been such pariahs. For a time, the bird conjured up quite regal associations.
    Giovanni Battista Falda: View of the Villa Medici, 1677, via Met Museum

    Historically, these were birds of the aristocracy. Researchers believe they were domesticated in the Middle East and then spread around Europe by the Romans. Their habitats were even built into the architecture of Roman houses: one common element of a traditional Tuscan Villa was an integrated lookout tower and pigeon house.

    In the 1600s, pigeons were brought to Canada from Europe; from there, they spread across the United States. Governors and dignitaries would exchange them as gifts and house them in domestic pigeon roosts. As they became more common and wild, pigeons began to lose their exotic appeal and fell out of favor with the upper class.
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    Bar of Dove brand soap

    This change in status is reflected in the evolution of common language as well: for a long time, “pigeon” and “dove” (of the same bird family) were essentially synonyms. Over time, the two diverged: “dove” was increasingly associated with positive things and “pigeon” became associated with the negative. Imagine, for instance, Pigeon Soap beauty bars, silky smooth Pigeon Chocolate, or the Holy Spirit descending from Heaven in the form of a pigeon.
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    Pigeon proofing by m.shattock

    A huge industry has evolved around deterring pigeons from occupying urban spaces and outdoor surfaces, producing spikes, netting and even miniature electric fences. While such strategies can work on a single building, they really just move pigeons around, pushing them to adjacent structures.

    The need for this industry, of course, traces back to people, who bred them and spread them around the world, then laid out all of the food waste on which they continue to thrive. Their resulting overpopulation breeds the diseases for which pigeons are now known.

    Despite these associations, pigeons are amazing (if slightly disturbing) creatures, often beloved by those scientists who study them. Take, for instance, pigeon milk. Pigeons have evolved to produce a milky substance, secreting nutrients in a small pouch (crop) inside their throats. Both the males and the females make milk, which the squabs access by sticking their beaks down their parents’ throats. This adaptation is found in very few birds and evolved along a completely separate path from the milk found in mammals.

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    Dominic Regans Tips and Tricks; Contributory Negligence

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  • Avery Trufelman 13

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    Interview in German of Avery Trufelman

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    The Most IMPORTANT Video Youll Ever See

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    5 million views for an old codger giving a lecture about arithmetic?? What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing about what he (Albert Bartlett) has to say.

    I introduce this video to my students as Perhaps the most boring video you'll ever see, and definitely the most important. But then again, after watching it most said that if you followed along with what the presenter (a professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder) is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, because it is so damn compelling.

    Entire playlist for the lecture:

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    AIA San Francisco: 99% Invisible Radio Series

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    AIA San Francisco is the recipient of Grassroots 2011 Excellence Award for Public Affairs and Communications: Outstanding Single Program.

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    My 99PI Challenge Coin Arrived!

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    I'm proud to be a 'beautiful nerd'. If you don't know what 99PI is, where have you been? The greatest radio show not on radio.


    - The website of the podcast that has more than just audio.


    - Roman Mars gives an amazing TED Talk about vexillology.


    - That kid who is 'happy of himself'. Thumbs Up For Rock And Roll!

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    99 Percent Invisible #coincheck

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    Avery Trufelman - 99pi

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    The Way Things Live
    As one of the staff producers for the design podcast 99% Invisible, Avery Trufelman spends most of her time considering the intentions behind inanimate objects. She finds stories hidden in products we encounter every day, like fire escapes and neon signs, as well as oddities and architectural outliers around the world, from art schools in Havana to garbage trucks in Taipei.
    Her talk, The Way Things Live, is a meditation of sorts—a reconsidering of the overlaps in some of the episodes she has made in the past three years. Design stories are human stories: the objects that we make are reflections of us, and they live existences parallel to ours. They fall in and out of favor with changing tastes and mores, in rich, changing narratives, until eventually, some outlive us all.

  • 99% Invisible Podcast Ep. 207 - Soul City

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    In the late 1960s, a civil rights leader named Floyd B. McKissick, at one time the head of CORE (the Congress on Racial Equality) proposed an idea for a new town. He would call this town Soul City and it would be a place built for and by black people—a land of black opportunity in rural North Carolina. McKissick imagined that Soul City would attract black families wanting to get out of northern ghettos. McKissick’s new city would offer blacks a thriving community with robust employment opportunities.
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    Soul City, North Carolina project booklet

    It just so happened that McKissick’s idea lined up with some national momentum on new-town building. In the 1960s, the country was in the midst of a so-called “urban crisis.” Traffic, pollution and crime were up in cities across the country. White people were fleeing urban centers for the suburbs (thanks to federal help with mortgages and new freeway development), in a process would come to be known as white flight.

    Meanwhile, urban black populations unable to leave, were dealing with housing discrimination and police brutality. Riots were breaking out in cities all over the country.

    Because of this urban crisis, the federal government had announced plans to help finance several brand new cities, and McKissick aimed to make Soul City one of the sponsored developments.
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    Newsweek cover from 1967 featuring the five most significant civil rights leaders. Floyd McKissick is bottom left.

    Floyd McKissick was a lawyer who tried a number of important integration cases in the 50s and 60s. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., worked alongside Roy Wilkins of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and protested in the company of Stokely Carmichael of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Because of McKissick and others, the civil rights movement made significant gains in the 1950s and 1960s.

    But in 1966 Floyd McKissick and Stokely Carmichael decided that the civil rights movement hadn’t gone far enough. When Carmichael began calling for black power in the wake of a white-on-black shooting in Mississippi in 1966, McKissick joined his rallying cry, and the black power movement was born. The goal of the movement was to go a step beyond civil rights and integration—the goal was for black people to take control of the communities where they had a majority.
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    McKissick addresses a crowd after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    By 1968 Carmichael and McKissick had begun to diverge about how to achieve black power. For Carmichael, capitalism was exploitative and part of the problem. For McKissick, capitalism could be part of the solution, with black-owned businesses paving the way for equality, freedom and justice.

    Ultimately, Carmichael would leave the American black power movement and head to Africa, joining the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. Meanwhile, McKissick stayed in the states, resigned from CORE, and founded McKissick Enterprises. His hope was to achieve black power by building an all black city.

  • 99% Invisible Podcast Ep. 208 - Vox Ex Machina

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    In 1939, an astonishing new machine debuted at the New York World’s Fair. It was called the “Voder,” short for “Voice Operating Demonstrator.” It looked sort of like a futuristic church organ.

    An operator — known as a “Voderette” — sat at the Voder’s curved wooden console with a giant speaker towering behind her. She faced an expectant audience, placed her hands on a keyboard in front of her, and then played something the world had never really heard before.


    Each SIGSALY machine was enormous. It occupied about 2,000 square feet and was made up of 40 racks of equipment. It would only function within a very narrow temperature range and so required constant air conditioning. The devices were so important and technically demanding that a whole division of engineers was assigned to maintain the machines: the 805th Signal Service Company.
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    Selected members of the 805th Signal Service Company via the NSA

    The first SIGSALY machine was installed in the basement of the Pentagon, then connected to several conference rooms upstairs. Operators below would man the machine during calls, coordinating with other staff above. Surface staff, in turn, interacted with and transcribed conversations between the military brass and Allies abroad.
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    Lt. Col. Dorothy L. Madsen (right) oversaw SIGSALY conference calls at the Pentagon.

    This first machine in the Pentagon was ultimately connected to a network of a close to a dozen other terminals around the world, located in strategically important places like Hawaii, London, England, and, of course, Oakland. There was even one mobile SIGSALY terminal on a roving ship in the Pacific. This network allowed leaders in Washington, D.C. to talk, securely, with any other location that had a terminal.
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    Turntables of a SIGSALY machine by Ralph Simpson

    To communicate with each other, the terminals required a shortwave radio connection, but also a Top Secret component devised especially for this system: a pair of vinyl phonograph records, each containing identical-but-random noise.

    These were the (single-use) keys to the encryption and decryption process. On the sending end, noise was mixed with the components of the voice signal. On the receiving end, it was extracted. Each set of records used to facilitate these steps was given a code name, like “Red Strawberry,” “Wild Dog,” or “Circus Clown.” This naming system allowed both sides to coordinate and make sure they were using the right pair to encrypt and decrypt a given conversation.
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    SIGSALY inaugural conference between the Pentagon and London in 1943.

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    99 Percent Bowl Lyrics

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    Ah, eu procurei essa musica pra cantar e não achei '-'
    na falta do que fazer, resolvi fazer esse video; qq
    então bora cantar cambada! qq alok's

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    Construction

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    A short observational documentary made whilst working on a construction site over a series of weeks. Inspired by the destruction seen in Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010). The piece was a reflection on the role of a building in life, something that seems so sturdy and permanent, an object that humans work all their life to afford can be brought to rubble, destroyed and rebuilt, it's malleable in the right hands.

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    Its not you. Bad doors are everywhere.

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    This video is about doors. Joe Posner investigates, with some help from 99% invisible, a wonderful podcast. Check them out here:

    Subscribe to our channel here:

    There's a door on the 10th floor in the Vox Media office I hate so much. You probably know one of these too. But it's not our fault.

    And luckily, Roman Mars of 99% Invisible magically arrived in my cellphone to send me on a cross-country journey to find out the incredible surprises behind this common complaint:

    Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn't need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine. So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?

    When most people complain about something, nothing happens. Don Norman is not most people – he's a psychologist and cognitive scientist. Don Norman thought about, and wrote about his complaints so incredibly thoroughly that he changed the world. 99% Invisible's Roman Mars helps tell the story.

    Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app.

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    Rambling on a Bike - 99% Invisible Kickstarter Project, SnapChat not selling out to Facebook for $3B

    2:06

    Great Radio Show by Roman Mars called: 99% Invisible:
    Here is the successfully funded Kickstarter page for season 4:

    Honestly such a great intersting show to listen to. Roman has a great radio voice, and here are some of my top three episodes listened to thus far:
    1. 99% Free Parking:
    2. The Broadcast Clock:
    3. UC Logo Change:

    As for the snapchat offer, here is an article for more info:

    Maybe they know what they are doing, but $3B is alot of money for an app with Zero monetization currently.

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    We Will Be Classed As Gods

    3:56

    An interview with a local taxidermist for a project based on a 'Portrait of a Person'.

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    Clash of Clans Attacks 99 Percent, Just One Star Brutal Battles in Clash!

    10:58

    Clash Of Clans Attacks brings you 99 Percent Raids in Clash Of Clans resulting in just one star! The most painful endings in Clash! Subscribe to Clash of Clans Attacks for all your Clash needs:


    Send me your exciting videos, close calls, heroic troops- anything amazing in Clash of Clans here - [email protected] - please send it in HD or uploaded to YouTube as an unlisted video and send me the link! Thanks!

    All Clash of Clans Attacks music licensed through Sean Spruiells Entertainment, licensing documentation on file with YouTube.

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    Clash Of Clans

    Clash of Clans is an addictive mixture of strategic planning and competitive fast-paced combats. Raise an army of Barbarians, War Wizards, Dragons and other mighty fighters. Join a clan of players and rise through the ranks, or create your own Clan to contest ownership of the Realm. Driving back the goblins is just the first step - your quest isn't over until your clan reigns supreme over all others!

    Seller: Supercell Oy
    Category: Games
    Updated: Oct 22, 2014
    Version: 6.322
    Size: 52.9 MB
    Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
    © 2012, 2013, 2014 Supercell
    Rated 9+ for the following:
    Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
    Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus.

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    99% Invisible Challenge Coin Pocket

    13

    Get your 99% Invisible Challenge Coin only during the #RadiotopiaForever campaign.


    99% Invisible episode about Challenge Coins:

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    Entertainment News - Fatin tentang reading Film 99 Cahaya di langit Eropa

    4:24

    Program yang menyuguhkan berita atau informasi menarik dari dunia entertainment, di dalam dan luar negeri berdasar pada fakta dan informasi. Program ini juga akan membahas berita dari dunia musik, film, fashion, seni, biografi, dan event-event.
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    Official Website: netmedia.co.id

  • Material Film

    4:26

    Film inspired by the 'Material Film' film art movement.

  • Phin Adams

    3:12

    For the assignment, 'A Portrait of a Person at Work'. Based at a local volunteer radio station. Phin is the 21year old host of the drive time 3-5pm slot.

    An HJLR Production.

  • Empty Space is NOT Empty

    4:46

    An atom is mostly empty space, but empty space is mostly not empty. The reason it looks empty is because electrons and photons don't interact with the stuff that is there, quark and gluon field fluctuations.
    It actually takes energy to clear out space and make a true 'empty' vacuum. This seems incredibly counter-intuitive but we can make an analogy to a permanent magnet. When at low energies, like at room temperature, there is a magnetic field around the magnet due to the alignment of all the magnetic moments of the atoms. But if you add some energy to it by heating it, the particles gain thermal energy, which above the Curie temperature makes their magnetic moments randomly oriented and hence destroying the magnetic field. So in this case energy is needed to clear out the field, just as in the quantum vacuum.

    Special thanks to Professor Derek Leinweber, find out more about his research here:

  • Amazon Prime Air

    1:20

    See page at

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    Cycling Pearl Izumi

    2:11

    A video of Pearl Izumi racing tour in Bath. I woke up one day and it was outside my window. I went out to get some shots. I wanted to capture the larger than life essence of it, the speed, the devotion, the fans and the atmosphere. It was an amazing experience.

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    The Chorus

    4:37

    A film I was the Director of Photography for. The film was Directed by Joel Hooks for a project based on Sight and Sound, the film focuses on the morning following Kristallnacht in Germany, November 1938. Shot on 16mm film we transferred the piece to black and white to match the style of the era.

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    3 Year Anniversary

    3:38

  • Test subject 3

    56

    A piece inspired by breaking the fourth wall in film.

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    Roman Mars, Host of the 99% Invisible Podcast | Talks at Google

    55:25

    Roman Mars is the host and creator of 99% Invisible, a short radio show about design and architecture. With over 40 million downloads, the 99% Invisible podcast is one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Fast Company named him one of 100 Most Creative People in 2013. He was a TED main stage speaker in 2015. His crowd funding campaigns have raised over $1.16 million, making him the highest-funded journalist in Kickstarter history. He is also a co-founder of Radiotopia, a collective of ground-breaking story-driven podcasts.

    Googler Logan Ury conducted this interview.

  • UNIVERSE - Touch

    3:55

  • **99% Failed** Try Not To Laugh or Grin Challenge Impossible

    14:40

    Take this Try Not To Laugh Challenge Impossible and hardest version ever created on YouTube.

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