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Is This Ratchet Or Runway? Fashion trends to Ghetto Fabulous
What makes a fashion trend go from lowbrow to high class? How does the person wearing the style change its perception? And whose taste gets to be respected? Hang on to your boxer braids for this one, from the ghetto to ghetto fabulous...
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Do You Really Want to Be Your Own Boss?
Being self-employed means wearing A LOT of hats. Some you'll like, some you might not!
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Can the Food Service Industry Survive Coronavirus?
Food service is one of the first and hardest hit sectors of our economy... how are small business owners coping?
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What Are the Costs of Having a Baby
These little bundles of joy are priceless, but expensive. How do all the costs of having a newborn really add up?
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Death, Personified (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)! | PBS Digital Studios
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think. It's Lit! is part of THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, a eight-part series that...
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Why Do We Get Grades in School?
Will you get a B+, C, an A-, a D+ or the dreaded F? We've all had that moment of sheer panic while waiting for your report card. But when you step back, it's worth asking why do we get letter grades at all? And whatever happened to E?...
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Why it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
For nearly 100 years it was illegal to be "ugly" in America. Of course, "ugly" wasn't actually about physical attractiveness, it was a way to criminalize disability and disfigurement and it lead to the rise of the freak show. So how did...
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How Eating Out Keeps You Poor!
Restaurants are getting more and more expensive, yet Americans are eating out more often. How much damage is this doing to your long-term financial goals?
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Why Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
The word Oriental is hundred of years old, so why do Americans no longer use the word "Oriental"? And how did the word "Asian American" take its place? Watch this week's Origin of Everything to find out.
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Could climate change make you allergic to meat?
Thanks to climate change, disease carrying critters are expanding their ranges, and their seasons are getting longer -- meaning they have more space and more time to take a bite out of you or me.
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How A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
Energy efficiency standards have quietly been saving people mountains of money and helping avoid planet-warming emissions at the same time.
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Fear of GhostWriting (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) | PBS Digital Studios
You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the...
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The Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
That "free" vacation might be costing you a lot more than you think...
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Why You NEED an Emergency Fund!
It may not be flashy or exciting, but an EMERGENCY FUND is the foundation your financial health is built upon.
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Post-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
Stories of blood-sucking monsters have been around for centuries. But the one who have outlived them all is Dracula! Revisit the Count and other vampires he inspired in this episode of Monstrum
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Insta-Everything
Time is money...right? How are on-demand services hurting and helping our wallets? When is it an investment to use these services?