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Audio Collective.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman,

from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with radio producer Roman Mars

about his design podcast 99% invisible, about creating new work in an old

medium, and about the intimacy of radio.

When you talk to someone and reach into someone's brain through sound, it just works.

A lot of it is just getting out of the way and allowing that connection to happen.

Here's Debbie Millman. Design is everywhere, especially in the places where we don't look.

That's according to the radio show 99% invisible.

Each week, the show explores design, architecture, and the

invisible activity that shapes our world. It is produced by a powerfully

named radio producer called Roman Mars. Here's a sampler of

recent subjects on the show. Vulcanite dentures, Senate bathrooms, design

for the deaf, and the logic behind queuing up.

Eclectic subject matter from an eclectic man.

Roman Mars, welcome to design matters.

Thank you. It's great to be here.

So, is it true that you went to college at 15 to study population genetics with a specialty

in corn? It's not true that I went to college to study population genetics. I went to

college at 15. That is true. But I just went to be in college. I wanted to be in college very badly and then I always wanted to do science and later on I found genetics and it just so happened that the specialist who studied genetics at Oberlin was a plant

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