Thirteen-year-old Juliana set a camera on her kitchen table, closed her eyes, counted down from three, and lifted the lid off a little plastic steamer…
Note: this segment is from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, and it comes with the profanity, crude humor, and political asides the show is known…
Inside a test kitchen in Omaha, Conagra executives huddled over plastic trays of microwaved eggs, potatoes and sausage, lifting packets of cheese sauce and pouring…
Before mass production, you bought bread from a neighbor you knew. Then you bought it from a grocery chain, made by a company you had…
Getting a product onto a Walmart or Target shelf is the part of Place students almost never see. NPR’s Planet Money just recorded it. For…
Sarah, a 20-year-old NYU student, was asked how much personal information she hands to her chatbot. “I think about it for a little bit and…
One note before the story. This article involves compulsive spending, a drained retirement account, and a marriage that ended over it. Compulsive spending and gambling…
The NPR Planet Money podcast fell off my regular rotation. Then, I saw this one and gave it a listen. It’s a great fit for…
Our Chapter 4 opener leaves Lego in a good place: a company that dug out of a $300 million loss in 2004 by getting serious…