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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” creator ponders the “ongoing understanding and quest” of love.
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The creator and star of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” discusses what the project meant to him personally, and how he feels about returning to it 10 years later.
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The filmmaker hates to think himself as an “auteur,” but prefers the relaxation and openness that comes with working independently.
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How to be a director actors love, and an actor that won’t annoy a director to death.
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A conversation with the filmmaker, actor, and writer.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic will still be with us in 40 years. But we will know a lot more about the virus than we do today—and therapy will be much more […]
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In the future, there will be more small slaughterhouses, more small creameries, and more regional food operations—and we’ll be healthier as a result.
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It took ten years for Intel CTO Justin Rattner to develop the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second. Between 1996 and 2000, it was the world’s fastest […]
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Mark Zuckerberg’s company has a long history of intruding on users’ privacy, apologizing, and then scaling back. But it never scales back all the way.
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When students are flunking in high numbers, teachers and administrators must take three crucial steps.
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Andres Alonso remembers his school experience fondly. How can we replicate that experience for the next generation?
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The longtime sportswriter talks about his personal style and who he’d want to step into the ring with.
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The greatest baseball player ever was Babe Ruth. Not only because every home run hit after him “has his DNA in it,” but also for his prowess as a pitcher. […]
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Steroids aren’t as big a problem as the press has made them out to be. “And if they are, we’ve got a pitcher on steroids throwing to a batter on […]
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Heavyweight champions today are so anonymous that you could put them all in a police lineup in gloves, robes, and trunks, holding their belts aloft, and no one would know […]
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“Sometimes the man’s IQ ain’t too high, but his boxing IQ is.” All fighters make mistakes in the ring—the great ones put that information into their mental computer and learn […]
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“Half of us will write on bathroom walls in lipstick if it pays—women’s rooms with two hands.”
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Today’s sportswriters don’t have the discipline that their predecessors did. “They’re writing quickly, so there’s no time for thought and cerebral thinking on an article. They’re just banging away.”
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A conversation with the writer and sports historian.
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The changes to our urban and rural areas will reinvent our education system.