543. How to Return Stolen Art

In blue cities across the country, unions and politicians want to ban self-driving cars. In this episode from the Search Engine podcast, PJ Vogt visits Boston to sort the facts from the propaganda. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Carl Richardson, ADA coordinator for the ...  Show more

How a secret project at Google led to driverless cars on American roads. Freakonomics Radio shares a story from our friends at Search Engine. (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Alex Davies, author of Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car. Chris Urmson, co-founder a ...  Show more

David Reid delves into the debate around the repatriation of problematic art and treasures. He visits one museum in the north-west of England attempting to decolonise its collection by returning thousands of items to the countries and communities they were taken from. In this epi ...  Show more

African artifacts shown in museums worldwide are often not borrowed, but stolen -- and TED Fellow Jim Chuchu is on a mission to get them back. Learn the sordid history behind how many of the collections in the West came to be, Chuchu’s extensive work tracking and restoring Kenya’ ...  Show more

Fewer people today visit museums than in the past. Why is this? What can be done to encourage more people to visit museums in the future?   There are fewer visitors to museums than there were in the past.   an endless stream/a wide choice of entertainment the pre-Internet era wat ...  Show more

En 1870, au moment de la Révolution industrielle, il existait un millier de musées. Aujourd’hui, il y en aurait plus de 80.000, dont 35.000 aux USA, environ 30.000 en Europe occidentale et près de 5.000 entre la Chine et le Japon. Les 7/8è des musées qui existent aujourd’hui ont ...  Show more