First, a new paper suggests that breakthrough innovations are more likely at smaller, younger companies. Today on the show, we're airing two episodes from our daily economics show The Indicator. Innovation is crucial for game-changing advancements in society, whether it's treatments for serious diseases, developments in AI technology, or rocket science. This episode was hosted by Alyssa Jeong Perry and Amanda Aronczyk, produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, engineered by James Willetts, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and edited by Molly Messick and Jess Jiang. On today's show, we followed two tech workers as they tried to find jobs before their visas expired, and what they went through as H-1B recipients trying to stay in the country. And they can't get just any job – they need new employers in their field willing to sponsor their visa. Because they are both H-1B recipients, they only have 60 days to find new jobs before they risk being sent home. When Aashka and Nilanjan got the news, a clock started ticking. They both lost their jobs in the layoffs each company announced earlier this year. Aashka was a product engineer at Amazon, and Nilanjan worked in digital advertising for Google. That was the case for Aashka and Nilanjan. This is how we built Silicon Valley – with great minds coming from everywhere to work in the U.S.īut when the industry started to shrink, all of these people who moved here for work are finding that linking their jobs to their residency is really complicated. And during the tech boom years, the industry relied heavily on foreign workers. People come from all over the world to work in U.S. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney. It was produced by Darian Woods and Nick Fountain. Our show today was hosted by Sally Helm and Karen Duffin. (Note: This episode originally ran in 2019.) And we find out: are twin studies still important for science? One of our reporters was a subject in it. We look back at a twin study that asked whether genes influence antisocial behavior and rule-breaking. We ask what decades of studying twins has taught us. Today on the show, we look at the history of twin studies. Scientists have been studying twins since the 1800s, trying to get at one of humanity's biggest questions: How much of what we do and how we are is encoded in our genes? The answer to this has all kinds of implications, for everything from healthcare to education, criminal justice and government spending. Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like "Can you read each other's minds?" or "Can you feel each other's pain?" Two of our Planet Money reporters are twins, and they have heard them all.īut it's not just strangers on the street who are fascinated by twins. Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney It was fact-checked by Kevin Volkl and mixed by Josh Newell. The Throughline episode was produced by Rund Abdelfatah, Ramtin Arablouei, Lawrence Wu, Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Julie Caine, Victor Yvellez, Anya Steinberg, Yolanda Sangweni, Casey Miner, Cristina Kim, Devin Katayama, and Amiri Tulloch. This episode was produced by Emma Peaslee, mastered by Natasha Branch, and edited by Jess Jiang. For more about the origin story of Monopoly, listen to their original episode Do Not Pass Go. This episode was made in collaboration with NPR's Throughline. (And with two sets of starkly different rules.) That story shows how a critique of capitalism grew from a seed of an idea in a rebellious young woman's mind into a game legendary for its celebration of wealth at all costs. Mary Pilon, author of The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game.īut there's another origin story – a very different one that promotes a very different image of capitalism. The game's staying power may in part be because of strong American lore - the idea that anyone, with just a little bit of cash, can rise from rags to riches. Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history.
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