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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The Middletown power plant tragedy raises concerns about the potential for far deadlier catastrophe. In a 2009 video, Alex Matthiessen weighs the risks of maintaining New York’s Indian Point plant.
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The inside story of one of the most successful environmental restoration projects in U.S. history.
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Where does NYC drinking water come from? How is it kept safe from toxins and terrorists? Alex Matthiessen clears a few things up.
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A discussion with Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper of New York’s Hudson River and President of the organization Riverkeeper.
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George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente discusses how the new healthcare IT infrastructure paradigm can drive new strategies within the healthcare vertical industry and beyond.
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The author and illustrator gets “infected” by his parents’ worries, but once he does fall asleep, finds that “dreams become good metaphors.”
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You’ll need a serious technical grounding in art, but more importantly, an instinct for avoiding “over-sophistication.”
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Since he first began doodling with crayons on yellow X-ray paper, illustrator David Small has loved art. But it wasn’t his first career choice.
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How David Small’s experience with therapy in adolescence inspired the cathartic self-analysis of his memoir, “Stitches.”
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David Small doesn’t care if you call his “Stitches” a “comic book,” but his inspiration lies with the likes of Tolstoy and Flaubert.
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A conversation with the illustrator and author of “Stitches.”
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The UT psychologist admires “people who acknowledge the world as a complex place,” and his favorite example is someone far outside his discipline.
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How tailoring living spaces to residents’ personalities may boost the success rate of community housing.
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Understanding animals’ “personalities,” says psychologist Sam Gosling, can help us better match them with owners and tasks. We may even someday see a “D-Harmony” for dogs and humans.
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Misrepresenting yourself in conversation is possible, but how you arrange your home or office will give the game away.
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New research suggests that we’re as skilled at seeing through social masks online as we are in the real world.
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“Stereotyping” has become a dirty word, but as psychologist Sam Gosling explains, we all do it—and need to.
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A conversation with Sam Gosling, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, argues that abusers should be treated the same as anyone with a debilitating disease.
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Can you force yourself to crave lettuce and running? Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, examines the science of compulsion.