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How a workplace's culture can begin with just one person

Jun 8, 2017
Tech companies often have founder-centric structures.
Visual Hunt

Using the lessons of hip-hop to start a business

Jun 6, 2017
A program in Philadelphia is teaching entrepreneurship through the successes and failures of the music business.
Students at the Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship are learning how to start a business.
Photo courtesy of the IHHE
Linda Cardellini stars in the latest season of Netflix's "Bloodline."
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Educators in Navajo high school see coding as one way to end brain drain

Jun 5, 2017
In its first year, the computer class is becoming one of the campus' most popular offerings.
Students in computer science class at Shiprock High School are diving into concepts like basic HTML and CSS.
Carrie Jung

Yayoi Kusama exhibit is an economic puzzle for museum

Feb 24, 2017
The lines are long but entry is free. So how can the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn capitalize on its 'blockbuster'?
Yayoi Kusama's "Phalli’s Field," 1965, is one of the infinity mirror room installations at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Cathy Carver

People are already selling ‘bad hombre’ and ‘nasty woman’ merch? Yup.

Oct 20, 2016
The latest election memes are already making the rounds as products online.
dannybrito/Etsy

How did Shakespeare make his money?

Apr 21, 2016
Did theater or wool-trading account for the playwright's wealth?
A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare, The First Folio 1623 on July 7, 2006 in London, England. 
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Fred Armisen on bringing Latino voices to comedy

Jan 12, 2016
Kai talks to actor and comedian Fred Armisen about new comedy studio, Más Mejor
Fred Armisen in the Marketplace studios on Monday, January 11, 2016.
Tony Wagner/Marketplace

How the NFL made itself a year-round sport

Sep 2, 2015
Scattering events over many months keeps fans buzzing on Facebook and Twitter.

Music-making and dysfunctional technology

Jul 27, 2015
Noise Makers continues with experimental electronic artist Sabisha Friedberg.