99% Invisible :: The Infantorium
Disneyland and Epcot are famous for demonstrating technology in order to provide a vision of the future. But in the early 1900s the technology at American amusement parks and carnivals was incubators for premature babies. This podcast explains how it came to be that parents of premature babies had to bring their children to amusement parks rather than hospitals.
Futility Closet :: A Kidnapped Painting
The story of the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery is unexpectedly amusing.
Twenty Thousand Hertz :: Historically Speaking
The history of language and how it shapes cultures and individual identities.
Running tally of 2019 Podcast of the Week appearances:
- Afropop Worldwide – 1
- AirSpace – 1
- The Anthropocene Reviewed – 1
- BackStory – 6
- Best of the Left– 5
- Code Switch – 5
- Decoder Ring – 4
- Dolly Parton’s America – 2
- Fresh Air – 8
- Futility Closet – 2
- Have You Heard? – 1
- Hidden Brain – 2
- Hit Parade – 6
- Household Name – 1
- Hub History – 7
- Lost at the Smithsonian – 3
- Lost Notes – 1
- Memory Palace – 6
- More or Less – 4
- More Perfect – 2
- The Moth – 1
- 99% Invisible – 14
- The New Yorker Radio Hour – 1
- Next Left – 1
- On the Media – 4
- Planet Money – 3
- Planet Money: The Indicator – 1
- Re:Sound – 1
- Radiolab – 3
- Radio Boston – 3
- The Report – entire series
- Science Talk – 1
- 1619 Project – 4
- 60 Second Science – 1
- Smithsonian Sidedoor – 3
- Sound Opinions – 4
- StoryCorps – 2
- 30 for 30 Podcasts – 2
- This American Life – 4
- Tiny Desk Concert – 1
- Throughline – 8
- To the Best of Our Knowledge – 1
- Tomorrow Society – 1
- Travel with Rick Steves – 1
- The Truth – 3
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 6
- The War on Cars – 4
- WBUR News – 6
- We Need Some Milk – 1
- Wedway Radio – 1
- What Next – 1
- You Must Remember This – entire 6-part series on Song of the South
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