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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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David Lat discusses his mission of bringing sunlight to a world covered in darkness.
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Twenty years into the Internet Age, the world of online speech is still anarchic. How much responsibility should websites take in the matter?
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David Lat would gladly split his time between the Harvard Law Review and US Weekly. Here’s how he made those dueling interests into a career.
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A conversation with the founder of Above the Law.
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What are the five jazz albums everyone should own? It’s an impossible question, Gary Giddins says (then mentions six or seven).
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Is jazz dead? Hardly, says critic Gary Giddins, who believes we’re seeing “some kind of renaissance.”
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Jazz is an African-American music, yet its major white figures initially received the top gigs, the big money—and the scorn of black musicians. Untangling the genre’s racial politics is part […]
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Can criticism be as ageless as art, or is it inseparable from its time and place? Gary Giddins takes a tough look at his own profession.
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Yes, jazz should be studied in the academies, says critic Gary Giddins. But if its raw emotion gets “turned into homework assignments,” its whole meaning gets lost.
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“Jazz” author Gary Giddins explains why critics should err on the side of gushing, not bashing.
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Once listeners learn to recognize stale pop music formulas, they often become enamored with the spontaneity of jazz.
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A conversation with the award-winning jazz critic and author of “Jazz.”
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“Jazz” author Gary Giddins looks back at his younger self: an avid reader of Dr. Johnson and would-be critic of English literature.
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Understanding the “caps” on the ends of chromosomes may soon translate to understanding cancer, lung diseases, and even normal aging.
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With President Obama having been awarded the Nobel Prize, biologist Carol Greider, a fellow 2009 laureate who waited 25 years to see her work honored, discusses whether he deserved to […]
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Nobel-winning biologist Carol Greider explains why scientists must be critics, not cheerleaders, of their own hypotheses.
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Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Carol Greider says the age of genetics is not around the corner—it has already arrived. The question now is what limits to set on change.
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What is telomerase? How was it identified? And why did the discovery take 25 years to win the Nobel? Biologist Carol Greider shares the inside story.
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Do good scientists aim for fixed goals or follow their curiosity? And do they ever worry that they’re barking up the wrong tree?
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Carol Greider, 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, recounts how it felt to get the big call from Stockholm and predicts its future impact on her work.