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Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.

The Memory Palace is a collection of tiny, crystalline historical tales that come across like luminous short fiction, and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales.

Der Vulkanausbruch: Auf der Drachenklippe herrscht großes Chaos: Der uralte Vulkan steht kurz vor dem Ausbruch und für die Drachenreiter wird es immer schwieriger, die Feuerlöcher im Vulkan zu stopfen. Der Sandspucker: Die Drachenreiter eilen einem Händler zur Hilfe, dem seine Waren gestohlen worden sind. Als Hicks dem Dieb folgt, gerät er in die Höhle des Sandspuckers. Dieser lässt hält ihn in der Höhle gefangen.

99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.