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Nadia Lewis

Innovation Hub
A roulette wheel is spun.

The economics of risk taking in the workplace

Business, Economics and Jobs

An economist and journalist attempts to understand how risk management looks in the workplace outside the world of finance.

a teacher reads a book to a group of student.

The life and inspiration of Dr. Seuss

Arts, Culture & Media
a white bottle of Oxycontin sits on a shelf.

How do our brains react to drugs? A former addict turned neuroscientist explains.

Health & Medicine
moonshot

This author says that innovative ideas — ‘loonshots’ — are too often shut down

Science and Creativity
A man holds a guitar in his arms. Behind him are four more guitars on stands.

The electric guitar wasn’t built for rock musicians

Magnified red microbes float among a yellow background

A micro safari through household germs reveals that cleanliness isn’t always a good thing

Medicine

Take a look around — you might not be able to see them, but they are everywhere. We are surrounded by forests of bacteria and microbes. And it turns out, that might not be such a bad thing. But our obsession with cleanliness could be.

An overhead view of people sitting at a table. In front of each person is a microphone and a name badge.

Chinese innovation makes the ‘Chinese Dream’ real for many

As China and the US negotiate a trade deal, it’s a strategy — not intellectual property theft — that is boosting China’s innovation, argues an economics professor.

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