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Earlier this week, CEO of Timberland, Jeff Swartz came by the studio. He spoke about the successful branding of Timberland in the last decade, and how it’s recently gone off […]
With New York City Comptroller William Thompson now officially going head-to-head against Mike Bloomberg in his bid for a third term as Mayor of New York City, a clandestine political […]
Is it possible that the world’s most famous diarist wasn’t keeping a diary at all? According to author and literary critic Francine Prose, Anne Frank’s famous account of life in […]
Leadership in Century 21 …
Bob Herbert gets it right in this morning’s New York Times: “President Obama is in the uncomfortable position of staring reality in the face in Afghanistan. Reality is not blinking.” […]
Author Gay Talese came by Big Think this afternoon and spoke to us about marriage, the subject of his next book. He is writing about his own half-century-long (and still […]
Violent, intimidating, homophobic soccer enthusiasts.Those five words would have struck us as a hilarious oxymoron back in the Illinois of my childhood, where football always meant “macho” and soccer often […]
Frank Bruni’s name is famous in New York culinary circles. But his face was virtually unknown until he resigned in August as the New York Times restaurant critic. After five […]
Rarely do I ever find myself agreeing with a Russian foreign policy official. But a Russian ambassador slammed his American counterpart, Susan Rice, for preaching the need to investigate war […]
Long gone are the days when PLO leader Yasser Arafat showed up wielding a pistol, or Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk. Nowadays the annual United […]
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Prose might be an insomniac either way, but the author finds writing to be a useful—and important—distraction.
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Though the literary canon is ripe for an update, Prose argues there’s still a lot to be learned about contemporary culture from the classics.
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Francine Prose discusses reading as a writer and the importance of influence.
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Author Francine Prose uncovers some unexpected things about the young diarist—most notably that her diary wasn’t a diary at all, but a heavily edited and re-written memoir.
Why It's OK to Talk About White Prejudice Rather Than Prejudice in General
You Can't Wipe Out Racism by Pretending You Don't See Race
Technology is even in the works to make truly mobile diabetes management, with sensors attached to a phone that can measure and transmit biological data such as blood glucose levels
With just 70 days left before December’s critical international climate talks in Copenhagen (COP15), the heat is on to bring the world to an agreement on a plan for emissions […]