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Avery Trufelman explores stories of people who tried to design a better world — and what happens when those designs don’t go according to plan. Season one, Utopian, is about the perpetual se...
On this season of Nice Try, we’ve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What kinds of utopia they promise, and what they deliver...
The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. And the American bathroom has long contain...
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep—which often run counter to our actu...
Fitness trends come and go. But the weight, about as low-tech and simple as it gets, is an anchor in the shifting tides of culture. As worko...
Countertop kitchen appliances—cookers that range from slow to fast—promise healthier, easier, better ways to feed the body. These gadgets of...
One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who does this work, and how good do we have to...
The American dream of a suburban house with a white picket fence cordons off the home as a haven, separate from the outside world. This pers...
Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, a...
Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding, Caity Weaver grew up vacationing in ut...
What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely driven by the will and power of a charismatic leader...
In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem in a domed research facil...
In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements of which exist today. The Tempelhof Airp...
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise...
Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first opportunity at home ownership, but typica...
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to d...
Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smit...
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, fo...