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Special Episode: Spencer Bailey Reflects on the Crash-Landing of United Airlines Flight 232
Season 1
Thirty years ago, on July 19, 1989, at 37,000 feet in the air, the titanium fan disk in the tail-mounted engine of United Airlines Flight 232—a DC-10…
6 years, 8 months ago
Google Design Guru Ivy Ross on Why Everything Is Pattern and Vibration
Season 1 Episode 11
Few executives have the profoundly spiritual presence of Ivy Ross, who more than five years ago joined Google as a vice president, helping to lead th…
6 years, 8 months ago
Andri Snær Magnason on How Time and Water Explain the Climate Crisis
Season 1 Episode 10
For the past two decades, Andri Snær Magnason has been on a quest for language that truly gets at the heart of the climate crisis—the images, mytholo…
6 years, 8 months ago
For Elizabeth Diller, New York City Is Beginning to Feel Like One Big Punch List
Season 1 Episode 9
When Elizabeth Diller graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in architecture in 1979, she had no intention of necessarily becoming an architect. I…
6 years, 9 months ago
Stefan Sagmeister Takes a Yearlong Sabbatical Every Seven Years (and Thinks You Should, Too)
Season 1 Episode 8
Ten years ago, the Austrian-born, New York–based graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister—famous for his attention-grabbing exhibitions, posters, and books…
6 years, 9 months ago
Uzodinma Iweala: From "Beasts of No Nation" Author to Africa Center CEO
Season 1 Episode 7
Uzodinma Iweala’s journey to becoming the CEO of the Africa Center, a culture and policy institution located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan at the nort…
6 years, 9 months ago
Kai-Fu Lee on the Power of A.I. to Transform Humanity
Season 1 Episode 6
The media tends to hyperbolize and boosterize technologists and the work that they do, creating all kinds of absurdly over-the-top titles for them. B…
6 years, 9 months ago
Teresita Fernández on the Violent Nature of the American Landscape
Season 1 Episode 5
Teresita Fernández defies expectations. For more than 20 years, the Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist has pushed boundaries, literally and figurative…
6 years, 9 months ago
Bjarke Ingels to Cities: Take a Longer View
Season 1 Episode 4
Bjarke Ingels communicates the value—and world-changing potential—of architecture with the giddy enthusiasm and excitement of a sci-fi obsessive anti…
6 years, 10 months ago
Kate Young on Why Luxury Equals Quality and Slowness
Season 1 Episode 3
Kate Young, the stylist for red carpet luminaries such as Selena Gomez, Margot Robbie, and Michelle Williams, has one of the shrewdest eyes in the bu…
6 years, 10 months ago