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Innovation Hub

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Innovation Hub looks at how to reinvent our world – from medicine to education, relationships to time management. Great thinkers and great ideas, designed to make your life better.

Innovation Hub Podcast Guide

Listen to Innovation Hub, a News & Politics podcast by WGBH. Stream 678 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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The People Powering AI Decisions

The 1964 Supreme Court Case Jacobellis v. Ohio presented a highly subjective question to the justices: what is obscenity or pornography? How...

50:23Oct 8, 2021

The Lost Art of Listening

We have become accustomed to politicians shouting at each other, and confrontational TV talk show hosts who do anything but listen to their...

31:55Oct 1, 2021

The Evolution of Play

Childhood today is radically different than it was just a few generations ago. Before the coronavirus pandemic, kids’ busy schedules include...

17:48Oct 1, 2021

When Romance Meets Ratios

In 2019, women hit a milestone in gender parity when they became the majority of the college-educated workforce. While it may be easy to see...

50:25Sep 24, 2021

Why Exercise?

Exercise is a relatively recent phenomenon. After all, it’s difficult to imagine a caveman on a treadmill. And it’s safe to say that paleoli...

49:51Sep 17, 2021

How Gay Marriage Won

In the decades since Roe v. Wade, public sentiment about abortion has remained fairly steady. By contrast, in the mid-1990s, only around a q...

50:23Sep 10, 2021

How the West Dominated Our Brains

About 1500 years ago, the world was a very different place; Pope Gregory was spreading Catholicism far and wide, a plague was running rampan...

50:25Aug 27, 2021

Pandemic Politics Hit the Classroom

All over the country, school districts are grappling with how to safely reopen classrooms in the midst of a resurgent pandemic. While many h...

20:12Aug 13, 2021

Has Cleaning Gone Too Far?

It has been said that cleanliness is next to godliness, but the constant disinfecting and scrubbing of our homes, offices and public spaces...

25:39Aug 6, 2021

America's Sherlock

Imagine a crime scene, and what it might take to solve the case. Do you think about dusting for fingerprints? DNA collection? According to K...

24:18Aug 6, 2021

Can Capitalism Save Us from Capitalism?

Business won’t save the world, but — according to Harvard economist Rebecca Henderson — it can help fix it. Henderson, author of Reimagining...

49:52Jul 30, 2021

How to Beat Burnout

In Japanese, the word “karoshi” translates to “death by overwork.” As reports of workplace burnout have skyrocketed since the pandemic, it’s...

50:02Jul 23, 2021

The Amazon Effect

July 2021 is a big month for Amazon’s Founder and former CEO, Jeff Bezos. Not only did he step down as CEO of the company he built into a $1...

50:10Jul 9, 2021

To Rethink the Constitution

The Constitution, first drafted in 1787, stands as the supreme law of the land in the U.S. But Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the Uni...

49:57Jul 2, 2021

The Death Grip of Email

Constantly checking your email might feel like textbook responsible work behavior but, according to Cal Newport — a professor of computer sc...

49:49Jun 18, 2021

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