Natural Gas, Staffing Restaurants, Nobel Prize Winner

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 8 p.m.

Europe and Asia are facing a critical shortage of natural gas—why isn’t the US? Then, restaurants are so desperate for workers that some are making a radical change in how they pay their workers. And, a Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about how Facebook threatens democracy. Also, on today's show: the little helicopter-seedpods we played with as kids inspired engineers to create a microchip that floats in the same way; climate change and social media are making things worse for cheetahs; the pandemic has got a lot of people falling out of love with their job.