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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Collectible trade cards were part of the advertising that catapulted Hires root beer to national prominence. (Boston Public Library)
Health

Root beer’s Philadelphia roots

The concoction of sarsaparilla, sassafras, wild cherry, wintergreen, and ginger has been saluted as one of the country's first convenience foods.

7 years ago

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Noelle St-Clair kicks off ImpactPHL's Investing to End Poverty panel. (Provided)
Money
Broke in Philly

5 smart lessons about investing to end poverty in Philadelphia

ImpactPHL's recent panel asked experts to share tips for managing cross-sector partnerships, building ethical development projects in low-income areas and more.

7 years ago

Splitting Amazon's second headquarters between two locations would dilute the company's original promise of a megadeal, but it could also relieve Amazon of being blamed for worsening traffic and increased housing prices. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
NPR
Urban Planning

Amazon plot twist: 2 cities will split the 2nd headquarters

The split of the second headquarters dilutes the company's original promise of a megadeal.

7 years ago

Conceptual rendering of Schuylkill Yards, a site being put forth for Amazon's second headquarters (Brandywine Realty Trust)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Kenney ‘won’t speculate on speculation’ that Philly’s out of running for Amazon HQ2

"We're in the running until they tell us we're not."

7 years ago

(Juliana Feliciano Reyes/Philadelphia Media Network)
Money
Broke in Philly

Philly wants to teach retiring business owners how to sell — to their workers

Around the country, stakeholders have raised the alarm about the "silver tsunami": the large number of baby boomer business owners approaching retirement.

7 years ago

This undated image provided by AcelRx Pharmaceuticals shows the dispenser and a tablet for the company's medication Dsuvia. On Friday, Nov. 2. 2018, U.S. regulators announced the approval of the fast-acting, super-potent opioid tablet as an alternative to IV painkillers used in hospitals. (Craig Sherod Photography/AcelRx Pharmaceuticals via AP)
Science

FDA OKs powerful opioid pill as alternative to IV painkiller

In one study, the pill provided about the same pain relief to patients as IV morphine.

7 years ago

(David Maialetti/Philly.com)
Community
Broke in Philly

City Council votes to move ‘fair workweek’ scheduling bill forward

The  ...

7 years ago

Wendell Whitlock is the Board Chairman Emeritus of Sullivan Progress Plaza. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Nation’s first black-owned shopping center celebrates 50 years

The shopping center on Broad and Oxford Streets might not look out of the ordinary to the average passersby. But that hasn’t stopped po ...

7 years ago

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U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry answers questions during a media availability following a tour of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Energy Sec. Perry stumps for ‘all of the above’ energy in Philadelphia, Camden

Perry spoke at a water conference and toured the Holtec International plant on the Camden waterfront.

7 years ago

(Square)
PlanPhilly
Money
PlanPhilly

Philly Council bill would outlaw cashless businesses

Councilman William Greenlee thinks cashless businesses are classist.

7 years ago

The Magnolia home was one of the largest offered through the Sears catalog. Sears sold more than 70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70 percent of Sears houses are still standing today. (Sears Holdings Corp.)
NPR
Money

Sears is fading, but memories of its mail-order homes endure

Now that its parent company has filed for bankruptcy, owners of some of those homes are lamenting the end of the Sears era.

7 years ago

Terry Egger, CEO of Philadelphia Media Network and Jim Friedlich, CEO of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, speak at a memorial service for the late H.F.
Money

‘Optimism, intuition, experience’: Philly remembers Gerry Lenfest

Lenfest's commitment to journalism may have been his greatest achievement, many suggested.

7 years ago

A sign announcing a store closing hangs above a Sears in Chicago. The bankruptcy filing could mark the end of the struggling retailer, which invented the mail-order catalog busines
NPR
Money

Sears, drowning in red ink, finally files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Sears — the iconic retailer that has sold everything from clothing and toys to refrigerators and socket wrenches over its more than 125-year history — may have reached the end

7 years ago

Macy’s worker Susan Hedman keeps a notebook of all her schedule changes so she can hold Macy’s accountable to Seattle’s secure scheduling law. (Juliana Reyes)
Money
Broke In Philly

Seattle is the leader in worker protection laws. What can Philly learn as it considers a ‘fair workweek’?

Susan Hedman knows her rights under Seattle's secure scheduling law.

7 years ago

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Hawa Hamadi serves up an order at Ivar's Fish Bar, the to-go section of Ivar's on the waterfront pier, on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. Ivar's is one of the local businesses affected by Seattle's Secure Scheduling Ordinance, which took effect in July 2017, aiming to establish more predictable work schedules for employees of large retail and food establishments. (Lindsey Wasson for the Inquirer)
Money
Broke In Philly

As Philly considers copying Seattle law making hourly workers’ schedules easier, here’s how it’s working there

If passed in Philadelphia, backers say it would help 130,000 employees — most of them part-time chain retail and fast-food workers — or 20 percent of the city's workforce.

7 years ago

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