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Maria Popova
Creator and Author, “Brain Pickings”
Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials. She has also written for The New York Times, Wired UK, and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Fellow. She is on Twitter @brainpicker.
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Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
3 min
Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
3 min
Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
A great deal has been said and published lately on changing educational paradigms. In fact, this conversation isn’t a recent development – even in the 1980s, iconic science fiction author […]
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