🐎War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design — 99% Invisible

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🐎War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design — 99% Invisible

Podcast Episode Review:

Link to the Episode: https://www.airr.io/episode/611307b0ec0adf000e5ccdc1

Rating out of 5 Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

🤔Summary in 3 Sentences:

This episode is about the cause and effect of disasters and the designs that society has made to cope with them and how some of those designs in the past have become staples nowadays. Covers things with intriguing pasts, such as the dark nature of mini gold courses and bicycles.

Insights into how some of the new inventions nowadays during the global pandemic might be a staple in the future.

🎭My impressions:

This was a very fun and trivial episode that looked into ways cause and effect has led to the better in the past.

💡Important Ideas:

  • Cause and effect
  • All ideas come when there is a dire need (disaster)
  • the history of things may not be as clear as it is
  • Every invention evolves at different rates

💬Quotes:

These aren’t quotes per say but more like titbits of information and notes that I took along the way on Airr.io and the links under them take you to the exact snippet of the podcast.

The year with no summer- mount tambura explosion-1816: https://www.airr.io/quote/61517d3fa9f6f44f934c0e97
Due to the consumption of horses due to the dark times. The solution for riding on the backs of animals- the first “bicycle” known as the dandy horse: https://www.airr.io/quote/61517db5a9f6f44f934d66a5
Mini golf created because of Great Depression, small use of space and lots of people in need of things to do: https://www.airr.io/quote/61517eeea9f6f44f9350ffaf
Cans created by napoleon to help feed his troops on the move. Was made as a prize to anyone who could help his problem. First made with glass jars: https://www.airr.io/quote/615180d6a9f6f44f93562493
Can and can openers weren’t invented along side each other: https://www.airr.io/quote/61518106a9f6f44f93567e61
Cans and cap openers weren’t invented at the same time. Can openers were made a couple decades later: https://www.airr.io/quote/61518264a9f6f44f935a78bf
Wine windows are coming back because of the pandemic: https://www.airr.io/quote/61518328a9f6f44f935d1f20
Wine windows created during the bubonic plague to help stop the spread now coming back because of Covid: https://www.airr.io/quote/615183d9a9f6f44f935f432e

Yours Truly,

Rithvik Kadiresan ❤



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