All posts filed under: Interesting Humans

The Man Determining Humanity’s Future

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Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg is using his whiteboard to calculate the world’s existential risks.

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Dominique Crenn on the poetry of cooking, the power of memory, and rejecting limits for women in the cooking industry.

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Rebecca Solnit on the difference between hope and optimism, and the dangers of activism without a plan.

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A conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel.

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The photographer Henry Leutwyler on portraiture and the magic of inanimate objects.

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If the contemporary art world now seems like a place of pretension and status-seeking, it’s the critic Jerry Saltz who may be its last hope.

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An interview with James Harris—author of Hume: An Intellectual Biography—on misconceptions, skepticism, and Humean lessons.