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An office pod maker pivoted during the coronavirus pandemic to create medical pods, home office pods, and the 'God Pod'
This shift started when SnapCab and its founder and CEO Glenn Bostock realized its confined office …
Brittany Chang
7 mins read
A group of parents banded together to form a pandemic pod by hiring a teacher to educate their first-graders in a backyard shed
A teacher shares how she and a group of parents transformed a backyard shed into a schoolhouse fit …
Monica Humphries
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'Pod'-style learning benefits affluent kids and exacerbates education inequality — but it does address 3 key issues. Here's how to solve those problems equitably.
Indiana University sociologist Jessica Calarco says the best solution is obvious, but isn't on the …
Jessica Calarco
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How 'pandemic pods' could threaten traditional homeschools
There are concerns that rich families who are new to homeschooling may hoard resources, including t…
Eleanor Goldberg Fox
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Should you dine in a restaurant tent this winter? It depends on 5 safety factors
Picking a place to eat during the pandemic isn't just about outdoors versus inside. Also consider s…
Hilary Brueck
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6 startups that are helping parents launch pandemic school pods this fall
Smaller, in-home schools, or "pods," are gaining traction as an option for this school year. Here a…
Taylor Borden
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The startup that made office phone booths for Google, Uber, and NASA is selling modular work pods — see inside
New York-based startup Room made a name for itself selling private phone booths to open offices, wi…
Mary Meisenzahl
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A major Silicon Valley investor wants a teacher to set up a 'microschool' in his backyard — and he's offering to beat whatever salary they're making. He'll also throw in a $2,000 Uber Eats gift card.
Jason Calacanis is jumping on the "pandemic pod" trend and starting a school "kind of like 'Little …
Taylor Borden
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Pandemic pods are inequitable and inevitable — and a dream come true for the school choice movement
"This could really usher in the end of a public education system," said Jennifer Berkshire, author …
Juliana Kaplan
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How one dad went from building a glamping pod for his kids to turning his backyard into a booming rental business that can fetch over $2,400 a night
Before Derry Green started this project, the most he had done in terms of DIY was painting and putt…
Amanda Goh
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A restaurant is testing plastic 'shield pods' to keep diners safe during the coronavirus pandemic
The Plex'Eat is a plastic shield created by French designer Christophe Gernigon, who has requests f…
Canela López
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I've homeschooled my kids for the past 3 years. School, as we know it, is over — now's the time to reimagine it.
Tyshia Ingram has embraced self-directed learning for her two children the last three years and see…
Tyshia Ingram
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The US housing market is in recession - and the pandemic has created a unique economic headache, elite strategist Liz Ann Sonders says
Sonders warned inflation could remain a threat for years, and recommended stocks that can weather r…
Theron Mohamed
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This award-winning post-pandemic office design with individual sealed pods offers a glimpse at what returning to the office could look like
Offices are probably going to look very different as workers return after working remotely during t…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Billionaires made enough during the pandemic to pay off everyone's student loans
Forget cancelling student debt. Americans for Tax Fairness found that billionaires' collective weal…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Welcome to the hi-flex economy, where everything's optional
The "genie is out of the bottle," as work, play, and life all look different after the pandemic. Fl…
Hillary Hoffower,Juliana Kapl…
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22 ancient Pharaoh mummies encased in glass pods and riding gold war chariots paraded through Egypt's capital in a spectacular procession
Each mummy was carried in a glass capsule with shock-absorbers so that the ancient royals didn't ge…
Sophia Ankel
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How wearable pods designed to keep spectators dry at sporting events came to be used by drive-thru workers at Chick-fil-A and Dunkin'
Most customers were sports fans and festival-goers, but the company pivoted to fit around COVID cha…
Mary Meisenzahl
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4 steps parents working from home can take to support their kids' mental health and virtual learning
Remote schooling can take a huge emotional toll on your child, so using empathy, compassion, and en…
Amy Morin
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People revealed all the ways their dating lives and relationships changed during the pandemic
"I have no doubt that, ironically, the pandemic that isolated everyone in the world is the catalyst…