Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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How Money Sways Politics
27/01/2017 Duration: 22minMoney and politics have always been paired. But journalist Jane Mayer and professor Theda Skocpol both say that something new is afoot, thanks in part to a couple of very rich brothers.
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The Patent Trap
27/01/2017 Duration: 04minIs a patent troll coming after your idea? Well, maybe you should check out Alex Reben's algorithm.
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How We Mistake Confidence For Competence
27/01/2017 Duration: 14minOne of the reasons there aren't more women in leadership positions? Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says that it's our inability to differentiate between confidence and competence.
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Rebuilding Foster Care From The Ground Up
20/01/2017 Duration: 19minJudy Cockerton saw a problem and decided to do something about it. At 48, she shut down her toy store and created a village of sixty homes. The catch? They were reserved for seniors and families with foster kids. We visited Cockerton's village to learn how she built it.
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Full Show: How To Make A Perfect World
20/01/2017 Duration: 49minThe Industrial Revolution spawned more than just machinery. Author Chris Jennings says it was a catalyst for a pretty old idea: that heaven could be found on Earth. Plus, Judy Cockerton saw a problem and set out to fix it. And finally, something surprising: the Amish have wildly successful businesses, often without using cell phones, websites or email addresses.
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No Technology, No Problem for Innovative Amish
20/01/2017 Duration: 14minEven without cars and computers, the Amish have managed to start and grow successful businesses. Professor Donald Kraybill tells us how they've developed a surprising culture of innovation without the help of the latest tech.
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Utopias from A to Z
20/01/2017 Duration: 14minWhat would your personal utopia look like? Well, it probably wouldn't involve furniture making and no sex. Chris Jennings talks 19th century American utopias.
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Full Show: Leaders Have Issues
13/01/2017 Duration: 49minOur leaders should be deeply empathetic people, right? Well, according to Paul Bloom, empathy can actually get in the way of helping people. Mandatory voting, a council of presidents, more bureaucrats... Parag Khanna says that this is what American democracy should look like. Man-made climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. So why exactly aren’t we doing more about it?
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Technocracy Now!
12/01/2017 Duration: 09minParag Khanna believes technocrats get a bad rap in America, and our country could improve - and recover from what he calls “degenerative politics” - if it had more of them in office.
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How Empathy Leads Us Astray
12/01/2017 Duration: 20minEmpathy is an inherently good human quality. So, why is Yale psychologist Paul Bloom against it? We talk with him about why feeling others' pain makes for bad public policy.
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Why We Can't Agree on Climate Change
12/01/2017 Duration: 19minClimate change looks like it will drastically change all of our lives. So why aren’t we doing more about it? We’ll take a look at why some are reticent to accept the consensus view on climate science, and what those in power are doing now to prepare for a new world.
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Full Show: It's All In Your Head
06/01/2017 Duration: 50minCamilla Benbow and David Lubinski spent their lives studying child geniuses. Their advice on how to create a baby Einstein? Do nothing. Plus, conspiracy theories have gotten a lot of attention in the last year, but psychologist Rob Brotherton says they've been around for a long time. And finally, Thomas Gilovich thinks he can make you wise... or at least, the wisest person in the room.
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Want To Raise A Genius? Do Nothing.
05/01/2017 Duration: 19minWhat makes a genius? Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski have worked on that question for decades; they think they might have some answers.
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What THEY Don't Want You To Know About Conspiracy Theories
05/01/2017 Duration: 19minDo you believe that the illuminati run the world? That there was a second gunman? That everything is NOT WHAT IT APPEARS? Well, even if you don't, conspiracy theories help shape our world. We look at the psychology behind them.
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What Wisdom Really Is
05/01/2017 Duration: 10minWant to become wise? Well, you should first figure out what wisdom actually is. Psychology Professor Thomas Gilovich explains.
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Full Show: Money Problems
30/12/2016 Duration: 49minIt's been quite a year. Whether you started 2016 on the Trump train, heavily invested in the rising British pound, or confident that Pantone's color of the year was an accurate forecast of the twelve months to come, you're probably surprised. Don’t worry -- we are too. But thankfully, we've curated some of our favorite segments to help you bookmark a very surreal year.
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Full Show: Hidden Truths
23/12/2016 Duration: 49minA winter chill is in the air, and there's way too much Christmas music being played. So curl up in an armchair, grab yourself a mug of something, and take a mental vacation with some fascinating conversations from Innovation Hub.
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Full Show: City Life, Take Two
16/12/2016 Duration: 49minIf you want to live near a vibrant downtown but don't want to share a walk-in-closet with eleven roommates… maybe you should consider someplace other than San Francisco or New York. And yes, we know, self-driving cars are coming. But you'll never guess how they're actually going to change your city. Finally, refugee camps are becoming more and more permanent. And we need to build them better.
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Self Driving Cars and the Future of Cities
15/12/2016 Duration: 16minSelf-driving cars are going to be a thing. Soon. But how are they going to reshape cities?
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Permanently Displaced: Rethinking Refugee Cities
15/12/2016 Duration: 12minKilian Kleinschmidt thinks we need to wake up to the world's refugee crisis. And it starts by reimagining where they live.