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Innovation Hub brings the thinkers, researchers, authors, and visionaries who are crafting our future. The show challenges conventional wisdom and showcases creativity in everything from health to the economy.

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Business, Economics and Jobs

Why China is sending jobs to Africa

Innovation Hub

August 07, 2017

Manufacturing jobs may have moved to China … but not all of them have stayed there.

Lifestyle & Belief

How childhood trauma affects health

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July 18, 2017

Just weeks into a study to help people lose weight, Dr. Vincent Felitti began to notice that the patients who he had expected to make the most progress were dropping out.

Arts, Culture & Media

The potential — and possible pitfalls — of modern protests

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June 21, 2017

What’s the difference between the 2017 Women’s March, and the 1963 March on Washington? Zeynep Tufekci explores protests in an internet age.

Arts, Culture & Media

The birth of talkies

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June 20, 2017

Beyond “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Sunset Boulevard,” what was the transition to talkies really like for Hollywood?

Lifestyle & Belief

The story of heroin shows how medicine advances ‘slowly and painfully’

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May 08, 2017

Science gave us penicillin, space travel and computers. But, it also gave us TNT, guns and heroin. Paul Offit tells us about when science goes wrong.

Arts, Culture & Media

How Trump is changing TV

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April 21, 2017

The Trump phenomenon was built, in large part, by television. Michael Schneider tells us how the former star of "The Apprentice" is shaking up Hollywood — and creating some unexpected winners.

Arts, Culture & Media

How the new health care bill could affect your Uber ride

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March 17, 2017

The gig economy has exploded over the past decade. Could Paul Ryan’s new health care proposal halt that progress?

Lifestyle & Belief

Why are we so bad at spotting cons?

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March 08, 2017

Should you respond to that suspiciously attractive suitor on OkCupid? Should you invest your money in a “too-good-to-be-true” land deal? Before you trust anyone, listen to Maria Konnikova talk about the history and psychology of cons.

Arts, Culture & Media

Why we should all own a piece of the internet

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February 10, 2017

What would the internet look like if you owned a piece of it? Nathan Schneider thinks it's time for some of the biggest internet players to get cut down to size.

Politics

What immigration does for innovation

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February 07, 2017

Some of America’s best scientists (think Einstein and Tesla) immigrated here from other countries. We talk with two economists who’ve calculated their impact on American innovation.