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Lee Jaffe - Author of “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossroads” - Intimate Portraits of Bob Marley - Basquiat
Season 9
"Jean-Michel Basquiat's combination of words and images, this visual poetry, just from a cultural standpoint has been so important. When I met him in…
3 years, 10 months ago
Richard Thompson Ford - Author of “Dress Codes” - Stanford Prof. of Law - Expert on Civil Rights - Antidiscrimination Law
Season 9
"We present ourselves and our bodies every day in public, and the way we do that is profoundly important. It's the way we establish a sense of self i…
3 years, 10 months ago
Philip Fernbach - Co-author of “The Knowledge Illusion” - Cognitive Scientist - Co-Director of Ctr. for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Season 9
"The human mind is both genius and pathetic, brilliant and idiotic. People are capable of the most remarkable feats, achievements that defy the gods.…
3 years, 10 months ago
Aniela Unguresan - Co-founder, Economic Dividends for Gender Equality - EDGE Cert. Foundation
Season 9
"I co-founded what has become EDGE for gender and intersectional equity back in 2009, and at that time workplace gender and intersectional equity wer…
3 years, 11 months ago
Carl Safina - Ecologist - Founding President of Safina Center - NYTimes Bestselling Author
Season 9
"So we tend to take living for granted. I think that might be the biggest limitation of human intelligence is to not understand with awe and reverenc…
3 years, 11 months ago
Karen McManus - NYTimes Bestselling Author of “Nothing More to Tell”, “One of Us is Lying”
Season 9
"Well, I had a wonderful teacher in second grade who kind of inspired me to start writing and really stuck with me through elementary school and beyo…
3 years, 11 months ago
Kent Redford - Co-author of "Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology”
Season 9
"The field of synthetic biology, which is known by some as extreme genetic engineering – that's a name mostly used by people who don't like it - amou…
3 years, 11 months ago
Lars Chittka - Author of "The Mind of a Bee” - Founder, Research Centre for Psychology, QMUL
Season 9
"Most bees are quite short-lived, not all bees. So queen bees can live for many years, up to seven years, and some stingless bees, the queens can eve…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nick Bostrom - Philosopher, Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
Season 9
"I do think though that there is a real possibility that within the lifetime of many people who are here today, we will see the arrival of transforma…
3 years, 11 months ago
Vitaliy Katsenelson - Author of “Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life” - CEO of IMA
Season 9
"There are four modes of communicating: preacher, prosecutor, politician, and scientist. So those three Ps are very important modes, but if you spend…
3 years, 11 months ago