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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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When designers volley designs back and forth in a battle of one-upmanship, the result is an esoteric, but fun, digital-age sport.
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Khoi Vinh connects the early childhood disruption he experienced as an immigrant from Vietnam with his fastidious style as a designer.
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The NYTimes.com designer talks favorite fonts and websites.
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Technology has both democratized design and made user response central to designers’ choices. At the same time, says Khoi Vinh, “true expertise is as rare as ever.”
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As online media outlets compete furiously for eyeballs, the NYTimes.com design director discusses features that have, and haven’t, worked for the website.
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Print editions of newspapers remain “canonical.” But anticipating, and accommodating, user behavior is the unique challenge of the Web.
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The NYTimes.com designer strives for “a maximum of elegance with a minimum of ornamentation.” He also tries to think outside the grids that first made his style famous.
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A conversation with the blogger and design director of the New York Times website.
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“This being so afraid about competitiveness, I have never understood. Even as a Prime Minister, unless you have products or services to sell to others outside your own country, then […]
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Skeptics of global warming present the same issue as tobacco companies who misbehaved, lied to Congress and undermined public health efforts.
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Wealthy countries have to pay for part of their debt to the planet by helping developing countries have a chance for sustainability.
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Becoming a New York sightseeing guide is harder than passing the bar. Having met the challenge, Jacob Appel describes his favorite sight in the city.
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Don’t write stories about “ordinary people who think in ordinary ways,” and don’t spoon-feed your readers answers to moral dilemmas.
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Discouraged writers, take heart! Jacob Appel has been turned down by nearly every publication in existence—and has the records to prove it. So what keeps him plugging away?
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The bioethicist argues that humans do not gain real sentience until infancy, and that even mothers who commit infanticide should be treated far more gently than other murderers.
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Is euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, ever justified? And when do vegetative states become inseparable from death?