1440 Explores, Ep. 1: How Credit Cards Work

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See Bloomberg's continuously updated Billionaire Index

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Some parents are spending about $200 on berries per month

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Uber's first investors included StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp

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Visual Capitalist shows the top 50 countries by central bank reserves

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The payments tool Zelle was created by big banks to compete with apps like Venmo

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Fiber lasers used for metal engravings can’t burn your skin

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Laser-etched electric charges guide toner during laser printing

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Self-driving car companies like Waymo use LiDAR technology for navigation

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Gravitational waves are detected at LIGO by measuring shifts in interfering lasers

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The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for creating tweezers out of light

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Space probes propelled by lasers may one day visit distant solar systems

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During LASIK surgery, a laser removes microscopic amounts of tissue from the cornea

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Superbugs could claim 1.9 million lives per year by 2050

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Sepsis is the leading cause of death in hospitals

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Without liver bile, human poop would be a pale silver color

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The best time to get a flu vaccine may be late-September or early-October

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Influenza infects up to a billion people worldwide each year

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The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, due to economic decline and political unrest

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A West Berlin student dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall—29 East Germans escaped

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The Agent podcast reveals the true story of a long-term KGB agent in America

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Reagan’s 'tear down this wall' speech challenged Soviet control of Berlin

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Wind of Change investigates a Cold War rumor linking the CIA to a rock anthem

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'Cold War Conversations' podcast shares voices from the conflict's frontlines

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One (unlikely) theory posits Shakespeare helped translate the King James Bible

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The Chinatown Sting: Unraveling an international drug smuggling ring

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Author Flannery O’Connor originally wanted to be a cartoonist

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Watch a Yale professor’s take on O’Connor’s ‘Wise Blood’

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Poet Robert Lowell encouraged Flannery O'Connor to turn away from commercial appeal

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A film crew captured a five-year-old Flannery O’Connor and her talented chicken

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