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Illycaffè Chairman Andrea Illy on the Vast Potential of “Virtuous Agriculture”
Season 1 Episode 13
Andrea Illy breathes coffee. Not literally, of course, but coffee has indeed been a part of his being since birth. The third-generation head of Illyc…
7 years, 2 months ago
Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
Season 1 Episode 12
New Jersey native Maggie Doyne was age 18 when she arrived in Nepal, 19 when she had co-founded the BlinkNow Foundation nonprofit to support children…
7 years, 2 months ago
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…
7 years, 2 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…
7 years, 2 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 3 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…
7 years, 4 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…
7 years, 4 months ago