We've never had more access to information, and we've also never been more anxious. Dominique Olivier explains why a frightened population is very good for business.

The Starbucks disaster in South Korea cost a CEO his job, a brand its market, and thousands of customers their loyalty. The strangest part isn't that somebody made the mistake; it's that so many people didn't catch it before it went public. Dominique Olivier walks us through several corporate marketing catastrophes that should never have happened.

Elvis, Lady Gaga and a nature-loving drag queen have all found themselves on the wrong end of a trademark fight. Some of them won, some of them lost, but only one of them got offered free ice-cream as compensation. Dominique Olivier brings us the more entertaining side of the law.

In 1993, one man’s technological breakthrough made an entire craft obsolete overnight. The people who survived it had one thing in common. As AI threatens everything we know about our careers, it's worth knowing what that was. Dominique Olivier tells the story of CGI disruption to the movie industry.

Some mysteries survive not because they're clever, but because the truth is so simple that nobody wants to believe it. We want the answer to be breathtaking and impossible to guess, yet sometimes it's staring us right in the face. Dominique Olivier tells the story of the Mechanical Turk.

Thomas Edison wanted to own American film. Instead, through essentially operating a cartel, he drove it 5,000 kilometres west and gave the world Hollywood. Dominique Olivier tells the wild story that few people know about the inventor of the light bulb.

The Backrooms began as an anonymous 4chan post and became the most surprising horror movie hit of the year. To understand why an empty room terrifies us, we have to look at what's hiding behind the wallpaper. From liminal spaces to uncanny valley, Dominique Olivier looks at how empty rooms can be just as scary as monsters.

A reality TV star, a stolen coffin, and the uncomfortable history of how museum preservation can look a lot like theft. Dominique Olivier digs into the ethical debates around where global relics are displayed and "owned" in the competitive environment of museums.