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Jan Morris's biographer confronts the limits of storytelling while trying to capture a life defined by contradiction and reinvention.
The host of the Founders podcast joins Big Think for a chat about success, obsession, business genius, human nature, and more.
Barthes is dead — long live the artist.
Follow the money and you'll follow history.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
You've certainly seen the paintings — but they don't depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.
Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Behind the scenes, Hitler had at least three disastrous relationships, including a short-lived marriage.
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James Gleick, the author of biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman, discusses what they and other geniuses have in common.
John Templeton Foundation
Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin.
A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]
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