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Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of domestic self improvement they have made, kept and broken.
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The Keeper
Season 2 ¡ Episode 7
jeudi 2 dÊcembre 2021 ⢠Duration 39:52
On this season of Nice Try, weâve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What kinds of utopia they promise, and what they deliver with the latest technology. But even the most faddish of gadgets might just improve a person's life, because we can fall in love with things. Join us for the last episode of Season Two: a love story.Â
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The Bidet
Season 2 ¡ Episode 6
jeudi 18 novembre 2021 ⢠Duration 35:42
The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. And the American bathroom has long contained a stable trinity of fixtures: the toilet, bath, and sink. But is there room for another? This week, the riddle of the Western bathroom and our modern attitudes toward cleanlinessâall wrapped up in the mystery of why Americans cannot seem to fully embrace the bidet.
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Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia
Season 1 ¡ Episode 6
jeudi 11 juillet 2019 ⢠Duration 51:06
In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem in a domed research facility in Arizona. Inside the dome, there was a man-made savannah. A rainforest. A farm. An ocean with tropical coral reef. And all of these habitats would be populated with life. Things did not go according to plan. But was it a failure? EDITOR'S NOTE: one instance of explicit language.
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Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia
Season 1 ¡ Episode 5
jeudi 27 juin 2019 ⢠Duration 36:32
In 1938, Hitlerâs chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements of which exist today. The Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin features designs that specifically evoke the Third Reich. Following the end of World War II, the airport became a crucial access point for the US and British to bring food through the Berlin Blockade. It was closed in 2008, and then became a park, and emergency refugee housing. But the buildings remain. What do we do with the everyday reminders of a dark history? EDITOR'S NOTE: one instance of explicit language.
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Oneida: Utopia, LLC
Season 1 ¡ Episode 4
jeudi 20 juin 2019 ⢠Duration 37:06
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise could be found on Earth through nontraditional sexual and familial structures, including complex marriages and communal childraising. Hundreds of people followed him, and for many years their community succeeded. But the center could not hold, and the community pivoted â into a thriving business that became one of the worldâs most prominent makers of flatware. Â
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Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard
Season 1 ¡ Episode 3
jeudi 13 juin 2019 ⢠Duration 34:11
Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first opportunity at home ownership, but typically excluded African Americans. While William Levitt used explicit racial covenants and other tactics to keep his famed Levittown developments white, one builder used racial quotas to create an integrated community â and succeeded, for a while. Can the suburbs be a utopia for all?
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Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia
Season 1 ¡ Episode 2
jeudi 6 juin 2019 ⢠Duration 38:41
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to design the city of Chandigarh, to signal Indiaâs rise on the world stage. But the cityâs architecture and design has become known more for its Western modernist roots, and less as a symbol of Indian nationalism, and furniture that had been intended for the masses are now being auctioned off as high art pieces that wind up in Kourtney Kardashianâs dining room.
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Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
Season 1 ¡ Episode 1
jeudi 30 mai 2019 ⢠Duration 39:08
Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, and especially from the 1995 Disney animated film. A gripping recounting of the true story of how the settlement failed and recovered, and the toll it took on the English and Native Americans, shows how failure can be a transformative experience, and also how the stories we tell ourselves about the failures inform the way we live today. EDITOR'S NOTE -- one instance of explicit language.Â
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Introducing: Utopian
Season 1
samedi 4 mai 2019 ⢠Duration 02:56
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, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perpetual search for the perfect place, the ways that search can go spectacularly wrong, and what comes after. Thursdays starting May 30th.
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The Mattress
Season 2 ¡ Episode 5
jeudi 11 novembre 2021 ⢠Duration 38:43
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleepâwhich often run counter to our actual, biological needs for sleep. Enter the mattress: a lightning rod for sleep performance, and a tool for modern self-improvement that's as mysterious and necessary as sleep itself.
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