Tracing globalization back to its roots.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6250
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The Birth of Globalization | Charles C. Mann | Orion Magazine
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The Weird Story Of Why Helium Prices Are Going Through The Roof : Planet Money : NPR
The story begins in the 1920s, when the U.S. government thought blimps might be the next big thing in warfare.
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A Father Of High-Speed Trading Thinks We Should Slow Down : Planet Money : NPR
The race for ever-faster trades has "absolutely no social value," says a billionaire who helped bring computers to financial markets.
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A man walks into a bar… in Ireland
Europe correspondent Stephen Beard begins a five-part series from bars in Europe. He gets the opinions of ordinary Europeans on the ongoing debt crisis, starting with the Irish.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/pub-crawl/man-walks-bar…-ireland
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In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: Game Theory
The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making. Some of the games studied in game theory have become well known outside academia - they include the Prisoner’s Dilemma, an intriguing scenario popularised in novels and films. Today game theory is seen as an important tool in evolutionary biology, economics, computing and philosophy. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick; Andrew Colman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester and Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How’d They Do? : Planet Money : NPR
What happened when two guys who sell pizza out of a window in New Orleans decided to buy a Facebook ad — and what it says about the state of social-media advertising.
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The Friday Podcast: Who Killed Lard? : Planet Money : NPR
You rarely see lard on menus. There aren’t shelves and shelves of it in every supermarket. In this country, we’ve sort of lost touch with the once beloved pig fat.
On today’s podcast, we ask — who killed lard? Was it Upton Sinclair? His novel, The Jungle, contained this memorable passage about the men who cook the lard:
"…and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,— sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!"
Or should we blame William Procter and James Gamble? It was their company which created a new alternative to lard — the "pure and wholesome" Crisco.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/06/144806987/the-friday-podcast-who-killed-lard
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Freakonomics » Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
Where have all the hitchhikers gone? That’s the question we ask in our latest podcast. Anyone who has been around long enough can observe that hitchhiking numbers have plummeted. So Freakonomics Radio set out to find the numbers on thumbers and found … well, not much. Apparently hitchhiking never qualified as an important-enough mode of the transportation sector to generate heavy-duty empirical research.
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The Friday Podcast: How Money Got Weird : Planet Money : NPR
An airline, the price of oil and the financialization of the global economy. On today’s show, author and former banker Satyajit Das talks about his career and the trouble with the rise of finance.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/30/140954343/the-friday-podcast-how-money-got-weird
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Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, discusses his new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Shirky talks about social and economic effects of Internet technologies and interrelated effects of social and technological networks. In this podcast he discusses social production, open source software, Wikipedia, defaults, Facebook, and more.
http://surprisinglyfree.com/2010/06/14/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus/
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