How Do You "Design" Trust Between Strangers?
When a stranger shows up at an AirBnB rental, what ensures that all goes well? Careful design of the website that brought them together, says Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb.
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Mike Rowe: Public Radio Shopping Network
We talk to Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and Somebody's Gotta Do It about his own surprising career path. Then he calls upon his experience as a QVC host in a game about hawking unusual items.
Decode The State
What vice president "lost" the 2000 election, but won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth"? That's ALABAMA Gore, when you replace the postal code A-L with the full state name.
Meet the Experts: Gioia Massa and Melissa Jones
Because in space, no one can hear you complain about errors in sci-fi movies, we challenge NASA Scientists to a game about space related movies.
Spy Spy Spy
Orlando is the primordial soup from which many of the most successful boy bands emerged. In recognition, we have rewritten N*SYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" to be about famous fictional spy spy spies.
Fantasy Sports
We ask contestants to identify sports franchises that share their names with things found in fantasy literature.
See You Later Alligator
Florida is home to about 1.5 million alligators, so we've crafted this game around the expression, "See you later, alligator!" Each answer contains a word that ends in ator. See you later, gladiator!
How Do Buildings Make Us Feel?
Architect Marc Kushner explains why architecture tends to swing drastically between traditional and experimental styles — and why the future of building design is going to be different.
Are The Best Designers Rebels?
Design critic Alice Rawsthorn explains why some of the greatest designers tend to be outsiders. She celebrates the innovations of unwitting designers like Florence Nightingale — and Blackbeard.
What Can Today's Designers Learn From Nature?
Science writer Janine Benyus believes innovators should look to nature when solving a design problem. She says the natural world is full of ideas for making things waterproof, solar-powered and more.