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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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How the legendary cartoonist got started at the Village Voice, and why his work struck a nerve in a decade when “liberals didn’t understand that they had First Amendment rights.”
The gaming expert waxes nostalgic for the wireframe universe of the arcade game she loved most as a kid.
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The modern workplace is a crime against the human spirit. Deepening our understanding of what truly motivates people will make work more productive—and more playful.
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Those who think newspaper reading will be the dominant use of the iPad are fooling themselves, says Nicole Lazzaro. It’s going to be gaming—especially two-player gaming “like that Star Wars […]
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Nicole Lazzaro explains how she’s trying to reconcile fun gameplay with a social message. (And, as a bonus, drops a reference to nerd-film classic “The Powers of Ten.”)
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For years, video game culture has basically been a boys’ club. Nicole Lazzaro’s work will help change that trend forever.
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Based on the seven emotions we can identify in the face, researchers have identified the four factors that make for an addictive game.
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In the dazzling heat of the desert, gamer Nicole Lazzaro was struck by a vision of human fun throughout the ages.
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A conversation with the founder and president of XEODesign.
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Robert Kirshner hopes he can convince some of tomorrow’s Wall Street bankers to become astronomers instead.
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In order to make his greatest discovery, Robert Kirshner had to overcome his own intellectual prejudice—and his mother’s.
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It’s a back-of-the-auditorium kind of question, and scientists don’t have an answer for it yet. But they’re getting there, says Robert Kirshner.
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Not all nutty ideas are good science, says Robert Kirshner. But there’s a mystery in physics whose solution, when it arrives, will probably sound pretty weird at first.
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Robert Kirshner’s research into supernovae overturned decades of scientific assumptions about the universe, and how it is mysteriously expanding at a rapid rate.
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What’s floating around out there in the cosmological zoo? The Harvard astronomer describes the major objects visible via telescope and the naked eye.
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A conversation with the professor of astronomy at Harvard University.
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Malachy McCourt describes the worst career advice he’s ever received.
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After 55 years in New York City, Malachy McCourt reflects upon its evolution.
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The Irish author wonders what we can do about war.