How billiards created the modern worldOne word: Plastics. |
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How screwed is Chicago, really?Will it become a second Detroit? For Marketplace |
Corn economics and world hunger.Our biggest crop? Not a foodstuff. For Marketplace. |
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Reversal of fortune: Saving Chicago from its own poop.When a river isn’t a river. |
Why are ketchup packets tiny and awful?Admit it: You hate them. |
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Where did Chicago’s old-school donut shops go?And: In search of the city’s best. For WBEZ’s Curious City. |
Want to see Chicago’s segregation? Ride the El.And: Take a time-lapse. |
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Why you can’t help paying four bucks for a latteA neuro-economist explains. For WBEZ. |
The MCC: Chicago’s Jailhouse SkyscraperFor 99 Percent Invisible. |
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Miami condo-buyers aren’t homeowners.They’re traders. Climate risk? Not remotely their issue. Marketplace |
Police don’t ask: Why are we getting sued?So: They keep doing the things that provoke lawsuits. Marketplace |
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In foreclosure crisis, maintenance firms cleaned upStill, this Chicago firm also lost business. For WBEZ. |
Could I build a robot to go to meetings?I’d free up time, and get rich selling them. For WBEZ. |
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Are Blacks locked out of the legal weed business?“Big weed” isn’t an equal-opportunity… opportunity. For NPR’s Morning Edition. |
I'm a writer, radio producer, reporter and editor-at-large. You can hear my work on National Public Radio, Marketplace , the BBC World Service, 99 Percent Invisible, Latino USA, and Chicago's WBEZ.
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