The 99% Invisible City by @RomanMars & Kurt Kohlstedt is your 400-page illustrated guide to everyday wonders of the built world. 🌆 For previews, reviews, interviews, and more about this critically acclaimed New York Times Best Seller, check out 99pi.org/book! 🔖

In search of a one-handed typing solution, 99pi's own Kurt Kohlstedt tests and compares an array of adaptive keyboards. They're all designed with users like him in mind, and yet ... well, let's just say the end may surprise you (as it did Kurt!). ⌨⌨⌨😮 99percentinvisible.org/article/adapti…

Axolotls are nature’s great regenerators. Axolotls are nature’s great regenerators. And the dream for many of the biologists who study them is that we might one day figure out how to harness that power for humans. 99pi's Emmett FitzGerald has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episode/model-…

Frustrated with adaptive keyboards, Kurt developed his *own* single-handed touch-typing solution -- a keymap enabling comfortable & efficient one-handed use of standard two-handed boards. He dubbed it the Single-Handed Half-Board Keymap, "KURTY" for short 99pi.org/article/single…

Introducing the KURTY, a *FREE* system that enables one-handed touch-typing on any conventional two-handed board -- developed by 99pi's own Digital Director, Kurt Kohlstedt. The linked page contains everything you'll need to set up your copy in minutes. 99pi.org/article/one-ha…

Depending on what era you were born in, and maybe even what country, what constituted a ‘calculator’ varied widely. Some kids had calculator watches — so cool, right?! 99pi's Lasha Madan has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episode/empire…

Two-handed keyboards tend to be more similar than different -- we expect them to function more or less interchangeably. One-handed keyboards, meanwhile, are about as different from one another as you could possibly imagine. 99percentinvisible.org/article/adapti…

It is easy to look back on Corbu’s visions of concrete towers and overly large open spaces as being harsh and inhumane. But, for a time, he and Modernists thought they were building a better, more organized and functional world. 99percentinvisible.org/article/ville-…

Happy Flag Day to those who celebrate, and those who don't but should! 🏴 🏳️ 🏁 A trip to the archives .... 99percentinvisible.org/article/vexill…

Happy Flag Day ... from Japan to the South Pole! 99percentinvisible.org/episode/flag-d…

Goodnight Moon was based on the author's process of listing all her favorite things in her room as a way to inspire herself to get up in the morning. For the book, she reversed the ritual 99pi's Joe Rosenberg has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episode/goodni…

Happy Flag Day!!! Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. At least, that’s what we were taught in school, and what a particularly famous painting depicts. But when historians go searching … there’s no proof to be found. Here's the story .... 99percentinvisible.org/episode/flag-d…

In the 1950s, Los Angeles was an up-and-coming city but wasn’t quite there yet. For decades, people had been moving to California for the climate, the jobs, and the cheap real estate. It was a city on the rise and yet..... 99pi's Vivian Le has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneat…

The folks at Apple Podcasts just revealed their 20 podcasts they love over the last 20 years and we're one of them! Check out the full list (and the nice things they said about us) at apple.co/20podcasts #ApplePodcasts20

Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There are two hundred and seventy different Chick Tracts, with titles like “The Death Cookie." But who made them and why? 99pi's Christopher Johnson has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episode/chick-…

Church and State -- an in-depth, two-part series on the history of offering sanctuary, with chilling resonance in light of recent ICE behavior. Stories by Delaney Hall 99percentinvisible.org/episode/church…

For this contest, three people would ascend 30 feet up a ladder to a platform running under a WSAN billboard. Whoever stayed up the longest would walk away with the new home. Brought to you by 99pi's own Vivian Le 99percentinvisible.org/episode/billbo…

Sodeto is not the kind of place that makes news. But all that changed in 2011 when almost everyone in this little village won a piece of the biggest lottery jackpot in Spain. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/el-gor…

Coming up on the #99piCity's 5th anniversary -- stay tuned for aptly celebratory content later this summer!

Superhero costumes for TV and film used to be pretty cringe-worthy. Lately, however, super outfits are looking much better. Costume designers are learning new tricks, and using better technology, but there has also been a change in attitude. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/fixing…