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Why whistleblowers need protection
The EU grants new legal rights to those reporting corporate and government misbehaviour
09 Oct 2019,17 mins
Choose your own pay
What happens when a company lets its employees decide what their salaries should be?
08 Oct 2019,18 mins
The George Soros conspiracy
Why one financier is the target of a global conspiracy theory
07 Oct 2019,17 mins
End of the road for US truckers?
Truck drivers and the robots that could replace them
04 Oct 2019,17 mins
The right to repair
Why is it so hard to fix your own things?
03 Oct 2019,18 mins
The search for sustainable fabric
Cotton needs gallons of water, polyester comes from oil. Could mushrooms hold the answer?
02 Oct 2019,18 mins
The onward march of Chinese debt
Is the rapid build up of credit a threat to China's economic wellbeing?
01 Oct 2019,18 mins
Brexit and the currency speculators
Some traders are betting on the UK crashing out of the EU without a divorce agreement
30 Sep 2019,18 mins
WeWork and the cult of the CEO
How WeWork's Adam Neumann lost his job
27 Sep 2019,17 mins
Climate Action: Should we plant more trees?
Is reforestation the best way to tackle climate change?
26 Sep 2019,18 mins
Climate Action: The moral imperative
What is our ethical duty to eliminate carbon emissions?
25 Sep 2019,18 mins
Climate Action: Uninhabitable Earth
Just how bad will it get if the world fails to get to grips with climate change?
24 Sep 2019,18 mins
Climate Action: Greta Thunberg's mission
The teen activist on how she aims to get governments to take action on climate change
23 Sep 2019,18 mins
The future of Facebook
What next for the social media giant?
20 Sep 2019,17 mins
Robot race cars and AI
What robots driving cars can tell us about artificial intelligence.
19 Sep 2019,18 mins
Trading tinned fish and powdered milk
How economies spring up in extreme places from refugee camps to prisons
18 Sep 2019,18 mins
Whom should the corporation serve?
Should shareholders come first? Or employees, customers, and society in general?
17 Sep 2019,18 mins
Africa's mobile credit revolution
Will the roll out of online lending stimulate economic boom or just a credit binge?
16 Sep 2019,18 mins
The cost of sending money home
Why it's time to start paying attention to the global remittances industry
13 Sep 2019,18 mins
The cannabidiol craze
The cannabis extract is finding its way into soaps and cosmetics, but is it just a fad?
12 Sep 2019,17 mins
Going after Google
US state authorities fear the search giant has too much power over what we buy
11 Sep 2019,18 mins
Tackling the male fertility crisis
Tech start-ups are finally giving attention to the steady global decline in sperm counts
10 Sep 2019,18 mins
The world is running out of sand
A global construction boom is fuelling an illegal trade in sand used to make concrete
09 Sep 2019,18 mins
Can technology read minds?
The business of brain data
06 Sep 2019,18 mins
Brand Britain and Brexit
What the rest of the world makes of the UK's Brexit crisis
05 Sep 2019,18 mins
The hipster company that wants to save the world
Is WeWork an exciting new tech firm, or just an over-priced office rental business?
04 Sep 2019,17 mins
Air pollution gets personal
Can a greater understanding of how poor air quality harms us help us tackle this problem?
03 Sep 2019,18 mins
Hollywood vs Netflix
How are movie producers making money in the age of online streaming?
02 Sep 2019,18 mins
Can we trust Rwanda's data?
Dodgy statistics and aid money in Africa
30 Aug 2019,17 mins
Dying for insulin in the USA
Why do American diabetics have to pay so much for this life-saving drug?
29 Aug 2019,18 mins