'Containers': How global trade has changed us
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They're part of how we get everything from apples to new pants to computer parts, but we don't often think about them — the shipping containers.
Tom Weber spoke with Alexis Madrigal, host of the podcast "Containers" about how those containers have transformed us and our world.
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