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Ordering those six pairs of Game of Thrones-themed socks from Amazon and having them sent straight to your door sure is convenient, but what does it mean for the world we live in? Engineering professor Anne Goodchild talks about the new delivery economy, and how it’s going to affect the environment.

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Is the Delivery Economy Bad for the Planet?

This week on Innovation Hub, we're ready for some tradeoffs. We’ve got author William Bernstein explaining how trade has shaped our daily lives, from camels to the compass to that cute new pair of shoes. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers talks about what the government is trading away when it doesn’t fund science. Writer Andrew Winston sees if profit-driven companies might give something up in return for a healthier environment. Finally, engineering professor Anne Goodchild looks at the trade-offs of our new delivery economy.

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4.18.15 Making Trades

This month on Reveal, we team up with New Hampshire Public Radio health and science reporter Jack Rodolico to unveil 40 years of alleged abuse and neglect of people with disabilities at specialty rehab centers across the U.S.

Check out our interactive timeline to understand the endless cycle of abuse: https://www.revealnews.org/article/interactive-for-disabled-patients-an-endless-cycle-of-abuse/

We zoom in and take a close look at Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center, a facility nestled in the wooded foothills of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, where people with severe disabilities were treated. For families all over the country, Lakeview was the last resort for their loved ones. For the owners, it was a lucrative business. 

But patients suffered. Reveal exposes how for-profit rehab centers thrive on public dollars with little oversight.

A Mountain Of Misconduct: Treating Disabilities With No Accountability

Imagine explaining plate tectonics using only the 1000 most common words in the English language. XKCD’s Randall Munroe did just that, and he’s learned some lessons about science education.

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xkcd’s Randall Munroe Explains Things

The robots are coming. But before they do, we’ll need to give them our morals. Queena Kim reports on why “moral philosophy” will mean big business in the tech world.

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I, Moral Robot

This week on Innovation Hub, how things catch on. Jonah Berger looks at why everyone falls in love with fads.  XKCD's Randall Munroe tells us how his nerdy internet comic got so popular. And Michael Bess takes us into the future of body modification.

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Full Show: Modification

If you’re looking to future-proof your job, the best way might be to brush up on your social skills. Researcher David Deming explains.

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The Importance of Social Skills at the Workplace

What do Hollywood SFX, bridges, and DNA visualizations have in common? The answer just might be Autodesk. CEO Carl Bass explains how they make they virtually design the physical world.

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Making the Virtual Physical

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants parents to have the ultimate choice of where their children go to school – public or private – and taxpayers to make it possible. This week, Reveal examines how DeVos might funnel federal education dollars toward private school tuition, yet leave school choice rules up to the states. Plus, we’ll look at how hundreds of thousands of students in Texas were denied the special education they are guaranteed under federal civil rights law.

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Access Denied: The Fight for Public Education

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