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Can science fiction predict our economic future?

by Caitlan Reeg
Apr 12, 2018
Companies take a deep dive into the stacks of a sci-fi library to find out how we might react to new tech.
Fantastic Library founder Thomas Le Blanc has built a sci-fi and fantasy collection of more than 280,000 titles over the past three decades.
Andreas Reeg for Marketplace
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In spite of data privacy issues, Facebook remains an important tool for Native Americans

by Nate Hegyi
Apr 11, 2018
Facebook is facing increasing scrutiny over the amount of user data it both collects and shares with third parties. But despite the concerns around data privacy, social media platforms like Facebook are vital to Native Americans for a number of reasons. Facebook has helped people on reservations keep track of dangerous water shortages, road-closing blizzards, […]
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California wineries are keeping an eye on China's tariffs

by Eliza Mills
Apr 6, 2018
How a 15 percent tariff will affect California's foothold in a rapidly expanding market.
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What it's like to be a cookbook writer

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Apr 3, 2018
Jessica Battilana talks about her career as a recipe developer.
Jessica Battilana's Cheater’s Tortilla Española.
Courtesy of Ed Anderson
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Meat consumption expected to hit a new record this year in the U.S.

by Peggy Lowe
Mar 28, 2018
Demand for “clean” protein, a “pork craze” and cheap prices are fueling high meat consumption in 2018.
JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images
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How "Murphy Brown" paved the way for women in television

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 26, 2018
Writer Joy Press explains how the show changed TV history at a time when "there were very limited ways to be a woman on television."
"Murphy Brown" creator Diane English, center, with actors Grant Shaud and Candice Bergen, attend a 25th anniversary event for the show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2013.
Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images
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How to be a lighting designer

by Eliza Mills
Mar 23, 2018
Steve Lieberman has designed light displays for Coachella, Lollapalooza and Electric Daisy Carnival. Here's what it takes to do the job.
In this handout photo provided by Insomniac, the 4th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), New York returns to MetLife Stadium Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24, 2015. 
Insomniac via Getty Images
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TV writer Nell Scovell says men need to "make room"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 22, 2018
It's not a pipeline problem, she says, but a "broken doorbell problem."
Nell Scovell says that when comedian Garry Shandling said she wrote like a guy, she took it as a compliment.
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Vanity Fair
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How to be a toymaker

by Eliza Mills
Mar 15, 2018
Melissa Bernstein of Melissa & Doug on how she does her job.
Melissa Bernstein started her career at Morgan Stanley ... but once she ditched investment banking and started making toys, she found her dream job.  
Courtesy Melissa & Doug
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In Virginia, the theft of an iPhone can result in a felony charge for life

by Megan Pauly
Mar 15, 2018
Virginia’s felony threshold for property theft is tied with New Jersey for the lowest in the nation at $200. There’s bipartisan support to raise it to $500 this year, but that’s still far below the threshold for most states.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam recently struck a bipartisan deal to raise the state’s felony larceny threshold in exchange for restitution reform.
Courtesy of Craig Carper/WCVE News
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