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If the U.S. can use its political and technological advances to grow its way out of this crisis, then the future could be rosy. The other option is much grimmer.
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The country sees its relationship with the U.S. marriage on the rocks and “is actively looking, if not for another partner, then certainly for a divorce from this somewhat unreliable […]
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There are six killer applications that made the West dominant over the past 500 years. But is that age now over?
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Those with historical understanding of past scenarios are likely to be better at visualizing what’s to come. After all, at the heart of the historian’s enterprise is the imagination
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A conversation with the Harvard University historian.
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Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles comments on a recent video interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland, a U.N. Special Envoy on Climate Change.
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Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles comments on a recent video interview with Peter Brabeck, the Chairman of Nestle.
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A new program aims to make new and existing cities sustainable by tapping into their nervous systems.
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“A photograph isn’t successful unless you capture the subject’s inner life.”
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Changing the Reverend’s image went hand in hand with revealing his inmost self through the camera.
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An unforgettable evening with the legendary jazz singer.
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The photographer talks about her favorite—and most difficult—subjects.
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Stop obsessing over lenses, and “make sure you have mentors.”
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Some photography sessions are so long, they induce “battle fatigue.” But just when artist and subject are about to quit, “the picture comes.”
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Why the veteran photographer arranges the lights just minutes before a shoot, yet agonizes over the music she plays for each subject.
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A conversation with the photographer and art director.
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What if humans made contact with aliens? The chair of the SETI Post-Detection Task Group explains the issues we’d confront and how scientists and government would respond.
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The cosmologist describes the cosmos in 60 seconds.
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“You’ve got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. … Cancer is in a way nature’s experiment with life.”
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Seeking a “penicillin moment” in cancer research through a radically new approach.