From food scientists who study the human palate to maximize consumer bliss, to marketing campaigns that target teens to hook them for life on a brand, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss’ new book goes inside the world of processed, packaged goods.
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How The Food Industry Manipulates Taste Buds With ‘Salt Sugar Fat’ : The Salt : NPR
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‘Smart Bomb’: Inside the Video Game Industry : NPR
The video game industry is home to a cast of characters as quirky, rebellious and diverse as the world they create. In her new book, Smart Bomb, author Heather Chaplin provides a behind-the-scenes look at the world of game developers.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5011925
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DocArchive: Guangzhou - China’s migrant metropolis
China’s economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.
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Rodney Brooks: Remaking Manufacturing With Robotics
Heartland Robotics Chairman and CTO Rodney Brooks asks: What will it take for robots to be added to the toolchest of the makers of American manufacturing, so that they can increase productivity, provide better jobs for American workers, and compete even more strongly in our globalized world?
Following on President Obama’s call to "begin again the work of remaking America," Maker Faire 2009 was organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called "the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things."
http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Rodney_Brooks_Remaking_Manufacturing_With_Robotics