99% Invisible
The hidden history of design and architecture, objects and archives checkable
52:57Women won voting rights through temperance activism
Because saloons were male-only spaces and domestic violence was tied to alcoholism, 19th-century American women fought for temperance as a safety issue, making prohibition their first stepping stone toward suffrage.
32:34The Rocky Statue Is Not Art, Yet It Became a Landmark Philadelphia Can't Tear Down
A bronze statue made for a movie was rejected by the art commission, moved to a sports arena, and left to sit in a warehouse — and what saved it in the end was not artistic merit but the fact that Philadelphians claimed it. A statue's status is always granted by its audience, not by the experts.
35:04Hair relaxer made Black women beautiful, and made them pay with their health
Chemical hair relaxer built the Black community's earliest millionaire industry and has also been linked by research to elevated uterine cancer risk — the same product is both an economic ladder and a bodily cost.
37:18He Dumped an Entire Font into the Thames So No One Else Could Use It
Over 173 nights, Thomas Cobden-Sanderson dumped 2,600 pounds of Doves Type into the Thames, because metal type is a physical object — dump it and you own it exclusively.