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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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By analyzing the Odyssey’s references to celestial events, Marcelo Magnasco has traced the exact days Homer described, including his experience of a full lunar eclipse on April 16, 1178 BC. […]
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The Homeric epithet “wine-dark sea” does more than paint a pretty image—it also tells us about the very strong character of Greek wine.
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A conversation with the head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics at Rockefeller University
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The founder of Prodea Systems explains how she hopes to help make information available to everyone—even the least technologically skilled.
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The astronaut describes what her space flight meant for Middle Eastern women and why she is proud of female protesters in her native Iran.
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The world’s first female private astronaut shares her most memorable moment in space—and explains why you may soon be able to buy a similar experience.
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A description with the private space explorer and founder of Prodea Systems.
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The best way to regulate new aircraft inventions is to require the innovators’ children to take a ride.
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You can always make something work by adding complexity, but you can never make something affordable by adding complexity, explains Burt Rutan.
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We would have made progress on space travel if the NASA budget had allotted 20 percent for prizes that at least half the people thought couldn’t be done.
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As Obama approves offshore drilling, Burt Rutan affirms that the U.S. has centuries’ worth of oil at its disposal, but thinks “it would be kind of cool if we just […]
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Imagine a world where mini planes are as ubiquitous as New York City taxicabs. That might be what it takes to fix our inefficient airline system.
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Burt Rutan doesn’t see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon, unless we learn something new.
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People used to say that the Internet was all fun and games; it took years for it to become everything. Burt Rutan thinks the same will happen with space travel.
A conversation with the aerospace engineer and founder of Scaled Composites
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As a young thespian, the dean of the Actors Studio fell in love with a scene from Hamlet. It was Act 3, Scene 4, the so-called “arras” scene where Hamlet […]
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Why does James Lipton enjoy flying planes, show-jumping horses, and treading the boards? Because all require a bone-deep love of risk.
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James Lipton sometimes seems to know more about his famous guests than they do. How does he prepare for each interview?
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The Actors Studio dean once wrote the definitive text on group nouns (“An Exaltation of Larks”). So what is a group of actors called?
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The same thing that drove Hamlet to distraction: “Words, words, words.”