Olga Oksman
Marketplace
New York, United States
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Hurricane Harvey flooding dredges up scams
Marketplace® is your liaison between economics and life. Noted for timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business news across both audio and digital platforms, Marketplace programs are heard by more than 14 million weekly listeners. This makes the Marketplace portfolio the most widely heard business or economic programming in the country. → Read More
Sitting down with Three Square Market, the company that microchips its employees
Marketplace® is your liaison between economics and life. Noted for timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business news across both audio and digital platforms, Marketplace programs are heard by more than 14 million weekly listeners. This makes the Marketplace portfolio the most widely heard business or economic programming in the country. → Read More
First map of Disneyland sells for $708,000 at auction
It was created by Walt Disney and fellow illustrator Herb Ryman in just one weekend to woo theme park investors in 1953. → Read More
New York graffiti tour turns the illicit underground into accessible art
Meet the street artist who gives tours around the city as part of a group that’s found success showing the legal side of what some consider urban blight → Read More
Cobbling together: the Brooklynites who gather to make handcrafted shoes
Former corporate fashion designers get ‘close to the product’ at Brooklyn Shoe Space, a shoemaking collective focused on sharing the ‘addicting’ trade → Read More
New concerns over BPA as workers exposed to levels 70 times the average
A new study has raised fresh concerns over the chemical commonly found in plastic packaging, which has been linked to variety of potential health issues → Read More
Moves like Middleton: the New York etiquette class that's fit for a queen
Myka Meier runs a school of manners with locations throughout the city. Olga Oksman attends a class – and learns how etiquette can be empowering → Read More
New medical marijuana research could greenlight more uses in treatment
Though the US Drug Enforcement Agency hasn’t reclassified marijuana, easier availability of the drug for study has the potential to unearth new medical uses → Read More
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?
We’ve tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a hearty breakfast. But research and history show that skipping our granola bowl does not, in fact, harm our health → Read More
FarmersOnly.com founder on why rural Americans need their own dating site
Jerry Miller’s website has attracted five million subscribers based on premise that urbanites cannot relate to farming lifestyle: ‘City folks just don’t get it’ → Read More
REI bucks Black Friday mania and tells people to #OptOutside instead
For the second year in a row, the outdoor retailer is giving its staff the day off and encouraging people to go out in nature instead of hitting the shops → Read More
How Brazilian women avoid sexism at work: by working for themselves
Saleswomen at companies such as Tupperware take out micro-loans and sell products directly, becoming financially independent on their own time → Read More
Artsy afterlife: a new breed of urban taxidermists give animals 'life after death'
Amber Maykut is part of a resurgence of taxidermists committed to never killing for the sake of art – using animals that have already been killed for other purposes → Read More
Fish for dinner? Your seafood might come with a side of plastic
Fish are “stuffing themselves” on plastic, but scientists are still trying to figure out what effect that might have on those of us who eat seafood → Read More
Brains and bone saws: a day with the chief medical examiner of New York City
We spent a normal Wednesday in one of the busiest medical examiner offices in the country. It’s not homicide that brings most people in – it’s dying alone → Read More
NYC subway exposes commuters to noise as loud as a jet engine
We walked around New York with a decibel meter to determine just how dangerous city noise is → Read More
Wen Hair Care baldness suit signals need for toxin testing in beauty products
A $26m settlement between Wen Hair Care and consumers who suffered hair loss calls attention to a regulatory gap in personal care products → Read More
Goggles on, checks away: how virtual reality is reimagining real estate sales
A growing number of companies are specializing in virtual reality experiences for wealthy real estate shoppers – and VR may head to the non-luxury market next → Read More
Russian Olympic team's drug usage could have long term effects on athletes' health
The 100 athletes banned from the Rio Olympics after fallout from the state-run doping program scandal also need to worry about the health impacts of steroids → Read More
An emotional support animal is just a mouse click away
Online services offering letters of certification for emotional support animals are more popular than ever. We tested a couple to see just how easy it is → Read More