Get the app
Help
Download the app
Anghami Plus
Browse content
Moods and genres
Podcasts
OSN Plus
Nov 2022
17m 53s
Peak Sand (classic)
NPR
Play for free
About this episode
Sand. It's in buildings, windows, your cell phone. But there isn't enough in the world for everyone. And that's created a dangerous black market.
Subscribe to Planet Money+ in
Apple Podcasts
or at
plus.npr.org/planetmoney
Learn more about sponsor message choices:
podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NPR Privacy Policy
Up next
Oct 2023
The flight attendants of CHAOS
When contract negotiations between Alaska Airlines and their flight attendants' union broke down in 1993, the union had a choice to make. The union — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA — knew that if they chose to strike, Alaska Airlines could use a plan. While Alaska Airli ...
Show More
28m 51s
May 2023
How you fight a squatting goat
Back in 2005, Burt Banks inherited a plot of old family land in Delaware. But when it came time to sell it, he ran into a problem: his neighbor had a goat pen, and about half of it crossed over onto his property. Burt asked the goats' owner to move the pen, but when neighborly pe ...
Show More
28m 53s
Jan 2022
HBO 2.0
What happens when the iconic symbol of your brand no longer makes sense? Today, HBO tries to evolve their sonic brand. This episode was adapted from the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoi ...
Show More
18m 49s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 2019
We Are Running Out of Sand and That Actually Matters
<p>Sand, we’re beginning to realize, is a non-renewable resource - and we are consuming it at a voracious pace. We use it in every construction project around the world and to create new land. And we’re wrecking the ecosystems we mine sand from.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ...
Show More
45m 53s
Mar 2024
Shocker: This $1T Saudi Arabian desert colony has a golf course
Neom is a $1T, 10.2k mile utopia currently being built in the Saudi Arabian desert. This luxury area will, of course, also now have a large golf “community” that looks straight out of a billionaire's dream sequence. Seems nice, but what are the issues with creating this giant adu ...
Show More
16m 2s
Aug 2023
Introducing... Good Bad Billionaire
<p>Coming Tuesday 29th August...</p><p>The podcast that finds out how the richest people on the planet made their billions, and then judges them for it. Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire? Each episode BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist and podcaster Zin ...
Show More
2m 4s