The Oceans' Plastic Problem

The world's oceans are filling up with millions of tons of plastic. What's the solution?

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How to be Mediocre

Not everyone can be special, so should we embrace our mediocrity?

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Robot Creep

Why do so many of us have a dystopian view about the rise of artificial intelligence?

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Corruption and Aid in Malawi

What has been done clean up Malawi's politics since the "Cashgate" scandal two years ago?

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Elements: Iodine

Why does iodine deficiency still blight children in developing countries like India?

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Who Owns Your Health Data?

Company health schemes promise to raise productivity, but who protects employee privacy?

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How to be Creative

Can anyone be creative? Does working in a team help? What about your office environment?

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The End of an Era

New York's Waldorf Astoria is set to close as it undergoes a refurbishment into condos.

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Cheap Oil Hits Cuba Hard

The low price of oil is hurting communities globally. We report from Cuba and California.

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Elements: Silver

Silver, the shiniest and showiest of metals and its surprisingly modern applications

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How to Enjoy Work

How to find enjoyment in the everyday drudgery of work

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How to be Angry

From hotheads to curmudgeons, is anger bad for business or can we put it to good use?

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The Whistleblowing Industry

How whistleblowers in the US are earning millions from exposing corporate wrongdoing.

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Greed is Bad

Why the greed of capitalism could spell trouble for society and the environment.

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Elements: Arsenic

The poison in everything from paint and sweets, to telegraph polls and drinking water.

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Russia's Far East

Is Russia's much-hailed pivot towards China a fact or just wishful thinking?

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Is the Euro Doomed?

Nobel laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, says so: "Either federalise or abandon the currency."

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Hong Kong and China

What Hong Kong's election result means for its economic and business ties with China

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Big-Spending Canada

Canada's Liberal Prime Minister is preaching an anti-austerity message.

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Elements: the Platinum Group

Six rare metals that clean the air but are the focus of violent conflict in South Africa.

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Women in Finance: Is There Room For Sisterhood?

How realistic is 'Equity', a film which features women in powerful financial roles?

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Do Second-Hand Clothes Help Africa?

Discarded western clothes sell well in Africa. But do they help the economies there?

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Intern or Drudge?

Are work placements great opportunities or just an excuse to exploit young workers?

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Cash v Plastic

Why is the UK getting a new five pound note in an increasingly cashless economy?

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Elements: Thorium

This metal offers thousands of years of nuclear energy, but is it any safer than uranium?

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Feeding The World

The business of food: how we eat, what we eat, and who's running the show.

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The Business of Wild Bush Meat

Preying on endangered species as food for the table.

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Trumponomics

Pricing the Republican candidate's plan: will it spur growth, or cause an economic crash?

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Becoming an American

Stories from a US naturalisation ceremony in southern Texas.

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Elements: Gold

Why do we value this useless metal? And does it bring out the worst in human nature?

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