Essay/Work The future is emotional Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable Livia Gershon
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Economics What is human capital? Human capital theory was invented as an ideological weapon in the Cold War. Now it is helping to Uberise the world of work Peter Fleming
Video/Nature & Environment In the murky waters of climate change, native fishers are among the most vulnerable 7 minutes
Video/Poverty & Development Pride, poverty and rapture in an Appalachian mining community where the jobs are gone 25 minutes
Video/Demography & Migration The interned and the undocumented: the immigration spectrum in the US today 7 minutes
Video/Stories & Literature The welder-turned-poet who fell in love with words in a Glasgow shipyard 11 minutes
Video/Design & Fashion Not all paper is created equal: an 800-year-old tradition of making it by hand 6 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Biology The queen does not rule The ant colony has often served as a metaphor for human order and hierarchy. But real ant society is radical to its core Deborah M Gordon
Essay/The Home Nobody is home From the footloose networker to the exiled migrant, home has been displaced by an idea that’s both elusive and contested Charles Leadbeater
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Work Fuck work Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore? James Livingston
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Work Trust me with your money It takes diplomacy, anthropology and psychology to serve the world’s super-rich. But only trust opens their purse strings Brooke Harrington
Essay/Demography & Migration The great settling down The idea that American life is increasingly transient and uprooted is a myth: people are moving less, but worrying more Claude S Fischer
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Future of Technology The economy is more a messy, fractal living thing than a machine George Zarkadakis
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Social Psychology Group smarts Groupthink can be stultifying. So how do the most successful groups elicit collective intelligence from their members? Jane C Hu
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Work Stupefied How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door André Spicer
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex Walter Vannini
Video/Sports & Games Life as a young referee: you get berated on the pitch; at home, mother does it too 17 minutes
Video/History of Technology The last day of hot metal press before computers come in at The New York Times 29 minutes
Video/Food & Drink Street food in motion: a chicken’s journey from coop to plate in Bamako, Mali 4 minutes
Video/Nature & Environment The joys and struggles of living on the world’s most crowded island 19 minutes