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#632: The Chicken Tax
How the American auto industry is built on a trade ...
How the American auto industry is built on a trade dispute over frozen chicken parts.
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#631: The Long Run
Stories about a $50,000 loophole, what neighborhoods mean for kids, ...
Stories about a $50,000 loophole, what neighborhoods mean for kids, and what the Six Million Dollar Man would cost today.
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#630: Free Parking
The story of a 24-year-old kid and the idea he ...
The story of a 24-year-old kid and the idea he thought would reduce congestion, cut greenhouse gasses and make urban life easier for everyone. Instead, it brought him nothing but trouble.
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#629: Buy Low, Sell Prime
Sam Cohen has made a big business out of buying ...
Sam Cohen has made a big business out of buying stuff at big retail stores, then turning around and selling it on Amazon. In an era when stores are profit-maximizing machines, how is that possible?
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#628: This Ad's For You
In the early 1960s, Tom Burrell became the first black ...
In the early 1960s, Tom Burrell became the first black man in Chicago advertising. Today on the show, the story of how he changed the way people think about ads and how advertising thinks about us.
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#627: The Miracle Apple
Today on the show, how we got from mealy, nasty ...
Today on the show, how we got from mealy, nasty apples to apples that taste delicious. The story starts with a breeder who discovered a miracle apple. But discovering that apple wasn't enough.
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#626: This Is The End
Machines have been taking jobs forever. In the past, when ...
Machines have been taking jobs forever. In the past, when jobs disappeared, new ones were created. But is this time different?
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#625: The Last Job
What if robots did all the work? In today's show, ...
What if robots did all the work? In today's show, we imagine a world without jobs.
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#624: I, Waiter
We go out for pizza and meet the latest group ...
We go out for pizza and meet the latest group of workers getting replaced by machines: servers.
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#623: The Machine Comes To Town
In Greenville, SC, the best job option isn't to compete ...
In Greenville, SC, the best job option isn't to compete against the robots, but to make friends with them. Note: Today's show originally aired in January 2012.
