The episode covers a history of air-conditioning, its marketing in the early years (including some interesting adverts), its impact on the movie industry(!), on politics (creation of the sunbelt vote bank in the US), and, most interestingly for me, our architecture.
It’s a beautiful, informing, inspiring episode by the good folks at 99pi.org.
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