100 Objects #18: Hair Relaxer
How a single product—the hair relaxer—became a mirror for all of America's contradictions.
Doves Type
A legendary typeface, a spectacular friendship breakup, and one extremely committed act of revenge.
100 Objects #17: M43 Field Jacket
How should the military outfit its soldiers to make them as safe and effective as possible?
Kobuk the Destroyer
Every product has to be tested somehow, and sometimes that means finding increasingly creative ways to break it.
100 Objects #16: Wheel of Fortune Dalmatian
How the ceramic Dalmatian became the mascot for one of America's most popular game shows.
1-800-PODCAST
This week, two stories about the strange power of the 1-800 number.
100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock
How the time clock not only ignited a revolution in workplace efficiency and surveillance, but transformed our relationship to time itself.
100 Objects #14: Basketball Sleeve
Producer and reporter Ramtin Arablouei has a simple question: Why are so many NBA players wearing a compression sleeve on their arm?
The Bone Wars
Two rival paleontologists turn a hunt for dinosaur bones into an all-out scientific war.