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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 17: People walk by a hiring sign in a window along a main shopping street in Manhattan on November 17, 2021 in New York City. As Americans begin their holiday shopping early this year in an effort to avoid shortages of some goods, U.S. retail sales surged 1.7% last month, the largest gain since March
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Money

How understaffed are stores? Smaller retailers feel the holiday-shopping strain

Large retailers have spent billions of dollars to woo workers. Smaller stores that can't do that expect staff shortages will lead to lost sales.

4 years ago

Philadelphia's Fashion District mall at 9th and Market streets boasted small crowds on Black Friday
Community

Black Friday at Fashion District Philadelphia: Good sales and modest crowds, shoppers say

These holidays could be different even from 2020, but supply chain worries and staff shortages didn’t seem to be a factor as shopping season began.

4 years ago

File photo: The New York Stock Exchange operates during normal business hours in the Financial District, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, in New York. Stocks are opening sharply lower on Wall Street Friday, Nov. 26, after South Africa found a fast-spreading coronavirus variant and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from southern Africa
Money

Stocks sink on new COVID variant; Dow loses 905 points

Stocks sank Friday as a new coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe.

4 years ago

FABSCRAP co-founder and creative director Camille Tagle and founder and CEO Jessica Schreiber (L-R) stand in front of a fabric wall outside of the Philadelphia location
Money

Fabric recycler FABSCRAP wants to make Philly designers greener

The fashion and apparel supply chain is among the top emitters of greenhouse gases globally. In 2018, 11.3 million tons of textile waste ended up in U.S. landfills.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Police officers in 1969, just a few years after they started using the phrase ''Black Friday.''
Community

The very Philly reason the day after Thanksgiving is called ‘Black Friday’

Police used it as a way to keep annoying shoppers from flooding the city in the '60s. No, really.

4 years ago

Black Friday shoppers wear face masks and gloves as the leave the Uniqlo store along Fifth Avenue, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, in New York
Money

Stores kick off Black Friday but pandemic woes linger

Retailers are expected to usher in the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season Friday with bigger crowds than last year in a closer step toward normalcy.

4 years ago

In this Nov. 19, 2021 photo, Wildwood N.J. Mayor Pete Byron gestures toward a section of the Wildwood, N.J. boardwalk that is being rebuilt. The popular seaside town is repairing or rebuilding most of its century-old boardwalk over the next five years
Community

Century-old Jersey Shore boardwalk is undergoing repairs

One of the Jersey Shore’s most popular boardwalks is undergoing repairs designed to better prepare it for summer crowds next year.

4 years ago

Tania Greene, Reyna Navarro and Tania León are selling at the Christmas Village for the first time. (Elizabeth Estrada/WHYY)
Community

Philly’s traditional Christmas Village shines with a ‘liberating’ new attraction

For the first time, the holiday market at Love Park will feature a dedicated space for small businesses owned by Black and brown Philadelphians.

4 years ago

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David Beale Jr. (from left), Naeem White, Paul David Beale Sr., Altermese Beale, Carolyn Beale, and Paulette Beale Harris stand in a flower show
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

West Oak Lane flower shop marks 50 years of serving the community

The Ogontz Avenue commercial corridor has changed throughout the years. But as other businesses have closed their doors, the flower shop remains a constant in the community.

4 years ago

'GoPuff keep saying that we make between $15-25 an hour,' said Candace Hinson, 29, who works at the company's Manayunk facility. 'They do not tell the media that they do not reimburse us for mileage. They do not give us anything for gas. They don't cover car repair.'  (Liz Tung/WHYY)
Money

‘We built this company’: Workers at Philly-based Gopuff mount one-day strike

A common complaint among protesters outside the company’s headquarters in Northern Liberties was that Gopuff workers earn much less than the company advertises.

4 years ago

Chef Jennifer Zavala and her new East Passyunk restaurant, Juana Tamale
Community
Billy Penn

Juana Tamale brings cult-favorite birria tacos to Passyunk Avenue

Expect Mexican comfort food for the whole family from chef Jenn Zavala.

4 years ago

A sign outside Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, encourages people to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Mitchell Layton/Getty Images
NPR
Health

Companies are telling unvaccinated workers to pay more for health insurance

4 years ago

Motorists fill up their vehicles at a Shell station Thursday, July 22, 2021, in southeast Denver. Colorado drivers are facing some of the highest prices per gallon at the pump in more than a decade
NPR
Money

Giving up gas-powered cars was a fringe idea. It’s now on its way to reality

In just a few years, phasing out gas-powered cars has gone from fringe idea to mainstream policy proposal.

4 years ago

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Radio Times
Money

Multilevel marketing & pyramid schemes

Is there a difference? Millions of people participate in direct-sales companies, recruiting friends and families to sell products, with the ultimate promise of hope.

Air Date: November 19, 2021 10:00 am

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Two people engage in the metaverse
NPR
Community

The metaverse is already here. The debate is now over who should own it

Metaverse users are wary of Meta's foray into the virtual world. The company, FKA Facebook, plans to spend at least $10 billion on its metaverse division this year.

4 years ago

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