Why is the sex-toy industry booming?
2022-12-22
Gone are the days of hiding in the shadows of seedy shops in the red-light district. Today, sex toys have gone mainstream. How has this long-stigmatised industry become normalised?
00:00 – Why is the sex-toy industry booming?
00:28 – The origins of sex toys
02:05 – How did the sex-toy industry emerge?
03:05 – Developing the female sex-toy market
04:40 – How the internet helped the sex-toy market
05:35 – How are women shaping the industry?
07:00 – From sex toys to sexual wellness
09:20 – Challenges to the growth of the industry
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Ukraine war: what will winter bring?
2022-12-21
As President Zelensky travels to America to meet President Biden, the war in Ukraine is entering a critical phase. The Economist met Mr Zelensky and Ukraine’s senior military generals to discuss what might happen next.
00:00 – The war in Ukraine enters winter
01:00 – What next for the war in Ukraine?
02:55 – A Russian offensive: what are the options?
03:50 – A Ukrainian offensive: what are the options?
05:35 – A message from Ukraine’s President Zelensky
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How will businesses use the metaverse?
2022-11-24
The metaverse could offer multi-trillion-dollar opportunities for businesses in the long term, with the potential to transform many aspects of daily life.
00:00 – How the metaverse could transform our daily lives
01:22 – How filmmakers are using metaverse technology
02:30 – What is the metaverse?
04:09 – An opportunity for creative industries
05:59 – How tech titans are profiting off the metaverse
06:53 – What is Roblox?
09:51 – Gen Z: metaverse natives
10:48 – How the metaverse could help climate change responses
12:15 – What is a digital twin?
14:33 – What’s missing from the metaverse?
16:26 – How mixed reality devices are transforming the military and health care
19:41 – What’s next?
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Why Belgium is now the cocaine capital of Europe
2022-11-03
With record seizures of cocaine at Belgian ports, the country has become Europe’s cocaine-trafficking capital. As the flow of drugs increases, local authorities are struggling with corruption and violence.
00:00 – Antwerp: Europe’s cocaine trafficking capital
01:48 – How much cocaine gets seized?
03:18 – Why do traffickers choose the port of Antwerp?
05:54 – The entrepreneurial Balkan mafias
07:35 – How do cocaine mafias make a profit?
08:16 – Customs corruption
11:54 – How can Belgium halt its cocaine trade?
13:43 – Can legalising drugs help?
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How are Latin American politicians
Climate change: can money stop deforestation?
2022-11-01
Rampant deforestation has driven economic growth, but accelerates climate change. How do you put a price on trees, to make them worth more alive than dead?
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00:00 – Can money grow on trees?
00:55 – What Costa Rica can teach us
01:52 – Down with the trees: rapid deforestation around the world
03:15 – Why tree-planting schemes aren’t always the answer
04:24 – Paying for existing trees: carbon credits
06:38 – How to finance the restoration of forests
08:10 – What are Payments for Environmental Services?
09:31 – Swapping to sustainable returns
10:40 – Is focusing on economic growth the problem?
11.50 – Why world leaders need to decarbonise the economy
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Why tree planting alone is
How to draw Vladimir Putin #cartoon #Putin
2022-10-18
How do you draw Putin? We asked KAL, our political cartoonist.
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CCP Congress: what will Xi do next?
2022-10-17
What’s it like to attend the Chinese Communist Party’s most important political meeting? Our correspondent, who was at the opening of the 20th National Congress, explains what it was like and what we might learn about Xi Jinping’s plans for China’s future in the coming days
00:00 – What is the Chinese Communist Party congress?
00:38 – Our correspondent’s journey
01:50 – Xi Jinping’s speech
02:55 – What else is on the agenda?
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How Xi Jinping might change the Communist
How the Mexican cartels are making profits now
2022-10-06
Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid crisis.
00:00 – The growing market of illicit synthetic drugs
01:05 – Mexico’s booming production of illegal fentanyl
02:22 – The third wave of America’s opioid crisis
03:56 – What are the costs of illicit fentanyl production?
04:53 – How is illegal fentanyl manufactured?
05:33 – What is China’s role?
06:51 – How dangerous is producing fentanyl?
07:53 – Why have cartels turned to fentanyl?
09:33 – Why are fentanyl pills so popular?
11:39 – The gig economy and illicit drug production
12:51 – How is fentanyl production democratising Mexico’s drug market?
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