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Why we're still talking about Sumner Redstone

by Kai Ryssdal
Jun 25, 2018
Succession planning is tricky when the plan involves never dying.
Sumner Redstone, chairman emeritus of the CBS Corporation and Viacom.
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What North Korea looks like with capitalism "creeping in"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jun 1, 2018
In 2016, writer Travis Jeppesen became the first American to study at a North Korean university.
Men push their bicycles past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang in 2017.
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How Theranos, a Silicon Valley star, came tumbling down

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
May 21, 2018
Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou discovered that all wasn't as it appeared at Theranos, the biotech company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative's closing session on September 29, 2015 in New York City.
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A story about steel ... and also, pizza

by Bridget Bodnar
May 15, 2018
Cue the "Rocky" music.
A Marghertia pizza.
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The men behind Cousins Maine Lobster turned their childhood memories into a national franchise

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Apr 18, 2018
The company's defining ethic is summertime in Maine.
Cousins Maine Lobster has 20 trucks as part of its franchise. This one is in California.
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Billionaires will have to duke it out to dominate outer space

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 6, 2018
Private companies, not governments, are leading the quest to put people in space.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Feb. 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. 
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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.
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How William Perkin’s search for a malaria cure led to the color mauve

by Bridget Bodnar
Mar 12, 2018
A teenager tinkering in his lab invented a brilliant synthetic shade of purple in Victorian England.
The original mauve — similar to the shade depicted in this image — was much brighter than the color we know today.
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Why the pace of Muslim women entering the workforce is accelerating

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Feb 14, 2018
Saadia Zahidi’s new book examines the powerful cultural and economic transformations taking place as millions of Muslim women enter the workforce.
A Muslim woman attends an office management class in Berlin.
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What will it take to change Silicon Valley's bro culture?

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Feb 7, 2018
Emily Chang details how Silicon Valley came to be a hostile work environment for women in her new book, "Brotopia."
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