The WeWork Story Part 4: WeWork Sued Her the Same Day

For more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqq4LnWs3olUarg-55iGQ821OKR1gtBF- Part 4: What happened at WeWork when things got ugly between the company and its employees? As WeWork expanded, a handful of employees wanted to speak…

How To Predict and Maybe Prevent an Asteroid Strike

An impact from an asteroid could have catastrophic consequences for humanity. Meet the scientists trying to predict when big asteroids will hit and how we might prevent it. #Space #Moonshot…

How Working Remotely Will Change More Than Work

For anyone that works, commuting might just be the worst part of the day. So with WFH and less time commuting, could we see a drastic change in the cities…

The Country That Learned to Live With Covid-19

As nations around the world still struggle to contain Covid-19, South Korea’s early, focused, and perhaps controversial approach has kept loss of life and economic damage to a minimum. Read…

Where We’re Going, We Won’t Need Roads

Flying cars have been a staple of futuristic fantasy since the dawn of science fiction. Now, thanks to a new crop of eager, well-funded startups, those visions may finally become…

Could Plastic-Eating Bacteria Save The Planet?

Plastic is one of Earth’s biggest problems. Its discovery transformed everyday life, but its failure to degrade is choking the planet. Recent discoveries, however, have given scientists hope that enzymes…

The WeWork Story Part 3: Is Naked Pete Coming to Summer Camp?

For more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqq4LnWs3olUarg-55iGQ821OKR1gtBF- Part 3: To its thousands of employees, WeWork was much more than a job. Founder Adam Neumann leveraged his employees’ emotions to motivate them. In exclusive…

How the Pandemic Made Your Boss Big Brother

Employee surveillance software has done booming business as many people continue to work from home. Supervisors use it to record everything their workers do on their computers, analyzing the data…

Is Personal Bankruptcy Really So Bad?

Filing for bankruptcy may not be the nail in your financial coffin that you think it is. On this episode of Good Money, we find out how personal bankruptcy really…

The Price of Saving Paradise

In 2018, Paradise, California, lost over 80 percent of its homes to the Camp Fire. Now local leaders are proposing an ambitious scheme to protect the town from future blazes.…

The Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Almost Killed a Soccer Team

The bombing of a professional German soccer club’s bus was at first thought to be an act of terrorism. But instead, it was the work of a young Russian man,…

Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Wants An Undersea Space Station

Since the 1960s, mankind has dreamed of living under the waves. Some habitats were even built on the seafloor, but our yearning for the stars left them abandoned. Now, Fabien…

Number Fever: The Pepsi Contest That Became Deadly

In the 1990s, a Pepsi marketing stunt promised soda drinkers in the Philippines a chance at getting rich. But an error in the campaign led thousands of people to think…

Mexico City’s First Female Mayor Tackles a Metropolis on the Brink

Mexico City’s (D.F.) metropolitan area–choked by pollution, riven by crime, and increasingly overpopulated—is home to more than 21 million people. With resources stretched to breaking, even access to drinkable water…

How Will Work From Home Work After Covid?

The white-collar world has been forced by Covid-19 into a "work from home" experiment, and the results are in. It turns out we can be just as productive at home,…