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Writing needs better teachers while theater just needs more stages.
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The playwright on creating the Brooklyn Writers Space.
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“I don’t actually have any expectation to make money as a playwright until I’m really, really old.”
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Abolish ordinary health insurance and expand catastrophic coverage.
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The filmmaker shares the trials and tribulations of movie making.
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A conversation with the producer and director of the film “Transcendent Man”.
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The filmmaker talks about his future, his desires and his favorite films.
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The filmmaker talks about the futuristic ideas of Ray Kurzweil.
Salinity has plagued agriculture since humans stopped hunting and gathering and started growing their own crops. Salty soil, coupled with over-irrigation, helped turn the Fertile Crescent into a modern-day desert, and salinity […]
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A conversation with the author and behavioral finance theorist.
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The behavioral finance theorist invites us to imagine a bank we can trust.
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Richard Thaler reveals how to be frugal without thinking about it.
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Richard Thaler wants more “skin in the game” to encourage money managers to avoid risks.
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The behavioral finance theorist, Richard Thaler, explores an example from his book “Nudge”: how images of flies on airport urinals reduce male spillage.
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Richard Thaler to overconfident risk managers: there’s more risk out there than you think.
Now come Mr. Barack Obama, he listens to Winston Churchill’s word Jaw Jaw is better than war war. However, he and his untested brightest and smartest guys want to change everything, ENERGY, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH CARE AND FINISH TWO WARS. AND BAILED OUT THE MAY BE 21st CENTRY THE GREATEST RECESSION. rnrnrnI know Mr. McNamara was gone. What about the untested brightest and smartest guys? Are they right this time?!rnrnrnrnrn
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Dean Kamen shares how he adapted one of his inventions, a tiny drug delivery system for neonatal cancer patients, for adults with other conditions.
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Inventor Dean Kamen discusses how successful creative people fail frequently, rarely work linearly and never give up.
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In our lifetime we’re going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it’s going to change the way people get health care.
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Increasing medical bills are a fact of life, says the scientist. In fact, “we should be happy that we are such a rich society … that we can afford to […]