99% Forgotten

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2010

⏱️ 5 minutes

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At the top of Mt. Olympus in San Francisco, on what was once thought to be the geographic center of the city, is a pedestal for a statue that isn’t there. There’s no marker. You can just make out the … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	We get support from UC Davis, a globally ranked university working to solve the world's most pressing problems in food, energy, health, education, and the environment.
0:10.0	UC Davis researchers collaborate and innovate in California and around the globe to find
0:14.2	transformational solutions.
0:16.1	It's all part of the university's mission to promote quality of life for all living things.
0:20.1	Find out more at 21st century.
0:21.9	UC Davis. edudavis dot edu
0:28.0	this is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars
0:32.0	two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
0:36.0	In Ozymandias, the poem by Percy Shelley,
0:38.0	The poem is about a historic monument of a figure,
0:42.0	a shattered visage
0:43.0	lies, who has a wrinkled lip and a sneer of cold command.
0:47.2	The statue points to all the works around him,
0:51.0	and the poem reads,
0:52.1	My name is Azimandias,
0:54.0	King of Kings.
0:55.0	King of Kings.
0:56.0	Look upon my works,
0:58.0	He mighty and despair.
1:01.0	And despair. And despair.
1:02.0	And the rest of the poem says that all of the works that the statue is pointing to have disappeared.
1:06.8	Nothing beside remains.
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