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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Sylvia Earle describes an intimate encounter with a 40-foot-long humpback whale.
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A young Sylvia Earle realized that some sea creatures were as interested in her as she was in them.
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A conversation with the oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue.
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The travel columnist would live in either Queens or Ho Chi Minh City if he had to stay put for 10 years.
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The New York Times’ Frugal Traveler columnist on what gear you shouldn’t leave home without.
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A conversation with the New York Times’ Frugal Traveler columnist.
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The epidemiologist traced one of the most important public health crises of our time back to chimpanzees.
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Since he’s left the paper, Okrent continues to come across things that irritate him about coverage. But it’s no longer his job to be the paper’s cop, so he lets […]
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There will always be plagiarists and reporters who didn’t make the phone call they claimed to have made. But an ombudsman can make the difference in preventing chronic lapses of […]
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Readers of the “paper of record” took issue with perceived bias in everything from headlines to photo captions. But they were most concerned about the use of anonymous sources.
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While Prohibition was certainly about drinking, it was also a stand-in issue in the battle among various groups over control of the country.