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Thursday, December 23, 12 p.m.

Within a decade, America will be looking different. As 70 million Baby Boomers enter retirement, there will be more older adults than children -- for the first time in history. This huge societal change will affect how families provide eldercare, how older Americans access transportation, and whether people can age in their own homes.

In this documentary project, 'Humankind' tells stories of how communities are attempting to become more age friendly. What changes will this mean for how families relate, how our streets and sidewalks are designed, how we use technology?

Friday, December 24 at 12 p.m.

Understanding what Amazon is, is crucial to understanding how it is changing the way we shop, live and work. We dive deep on the structure of Amazon, the invisible strings that tie together the parts, and why those parts create something the government is keeping its eye on.

In this hour, we also have a highly produced piece with litigator David Boies who led the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft in the late 1990’s. We draw the parallels and what Amazon learned from that case as clues for what monopoly enforcement against Amazon might look like.

Friday, December 31 at 12 p.m.

In an hour-long special, Vox's Unexplainable will explore some of the most exciting unanswered questions in physics. All over the world, scientists are searching for dark matter: an invisible, untouchable substance that holds our universe together. But they haven't found it. Are they chasing a ghost?

We trace this quest for answers from the first hint of something strange in distant galaxies to the modern research cracking open the very foundations of physics. Unexplainable is a science show about everything we don’t know.

Host Noam Hassenfeld is joined by an array of experts and Vox reporters each week to look at the most fascinating unanswered questions in science - and the mind-bending ways scientists are trying to answer them.

A three-part radio and podcast series that explores diet culture and how it shapes our relationships to our bodies and food.