The Keeper
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 with the l...
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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 search for the perfect place. From Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
The Bidet
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 stabl...
The Mattress
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep—which often run counter to our actual, biolog...
The Weight
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 workout equipme...
The Crock-Pot
Countertop kitchen appliances—cookers that range from slow to fast—promise healthier, easier, better ways to feed the body. These gadgets of convenien...
The Vacuum
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 be at it? ...
The Doorbell
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 personal, priv...
Season 2: Interior
Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, and sleep -...
Disney World: Celebrating Utopia
Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding, Caity Weaver grew up vacationing in utopia. Spec...
Herland: Reimagine Utopia
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 - usually ...