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What can Swedish furniture teach us about getting kids to eat their veggies? Cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo considers new research on the "IKEA effect."

One billion dollars. That's what production companies have spent filming in the state since 2007. Now here's another number: $100 million. That's about…

It was a busy year for federal authorities pursuing insider trading cases, such as the one against hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam. Investigators say that success comes largely from their decision to attack insider trading the way they take down the Mafia and drug cartels — with wiretaps, informants and cooperators.

Leviathan is a new film that's a documentary, and yet not quite a documentary. The mostly wordless art piece uses tiny cameras and dramatic soundscaping to probe the edges of human-animal interaction off the coast of New England. The filmmakers explain their unusual production process.

Melissa Block interviews Judy Gearhart of the International Labor Rights Forum about what the collapse of a complex of garment factories in Bangladesh reveals about the state of the global garment industry.

For John Zorn, realizing an ambitious, 11-album project was only possible through a crowdfunding campaign — except that the company he used, PledgeMusic, went bankrupt. It may cost him a lotof money.

Production of wood pellets continues to expand in North Carolina and across the South. Millions of tons are sent every year to be burned in power plants…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week warned that AI is an enormous threat. There can be no doubt that the advent of smart, rather than smart-ish, machines, is a long way off, though, says blogger Alva Noë.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Michelle Jamrisko of Bloomberg and with a listener named Dan about businesses affected by immigration policy changes.

Givonna Joseph, founder of OperaCréole, explains why it's so important to perform the works of composers of color, which she says were historically "hidden on purpose."

The septet BTS became the highest-charting K-pop group in history this week — but why?

After a round of emergency fundraising failed, New York's "People's Opera" is shutting down. Unfortunately, many — including the company's current director and its musicians — saw this coming.

A day after the names of children and teachers killed by gunfire at a Connecticut elementary school were announced, details about the victims and their lives are emerging. Family members and friends have made public statements about their loss. And some have chosen to mourn in private. The stories describe the vibrant, productive, and promising lives that were cut short Friday.

There's nothing like a broad-scale consumer boycott, but companies are responding proactively to rapidly shifting attitudes about guns. Whether consumers sustain anger about gun violence for very long will determine whether there's any real shift in markets.

Although each generation bemoans the faults of those following, it may be time to give millennials credit where credit is due: They are forcing business to do good, says guest blogger Paul A. Argenti.

From infant mortality rates to access to cancer treatment, stark health disparities exist between blacks and whites. One Michigan experiment to address that starts with money made from hospital food.

Facebook fundraisers posted by people on their birthdays exploded over the past year, bringing in a billion dollars for charities. But some Facebook users think it's too much of a good thing.

Commercials cost as much as $5.6 million per 30 seconds this year. Here's how some of America's largest corporations (and Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump) spent their money.

NPR's Renee Montagne speaks to Brian Lazarte and James Lee Hernandez, directors of "McMillions," an HBO series about how a McDonald's Monopoly game turned into a major criminal enterprise.

Rebecca Smith owns a construction-management firm that does a lot of work overseeing the building of schools, jails and other projects for state and local governments. She explains why she is "disgusted" by President Obama's thesis that government had a significant role in her success.