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Re:The history of barbed wire by jsherry on Monday March 23, 2015 @03:37PM (#9252913)
If you have a taste for stories that span the spectrum of airport carpeting fanboys to those with more historical significance such as the story here, I cannot recommend the 99% invisible podcast enough.

Web - http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id394775318

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Re:The history of barbed wire by wlesieutre on Monday March 23, 2015 @04:09PM (#9253080)
To list a couple others off the top of my head: SF's public stairways, NYC's cow tunnels, sound design for televised sports, Plimsoll lines, elevator brakes, architecture for deaf people.

I don't know if I'd call it a "spectrum" so much as a "crazy pile of everything design related." Great show.

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Re:The history of barbed wire by digitalneal on Monday March 23, 2015 @04:37PM (#9253219)
I was just going to mention this too.

One of the best Podcasts out there IMO. Great "short" stories/history lessons.

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