Emily Rapp had her foot amputated when she was 4, and the rest of the leg at age 8.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Whether or not you're a person who cares about fashion, how and where our clothes are made has environment, social, and economic consequences. The global garment industry is a trillion dollar business, that employs millions of people. Elizabeth Cline is an advocate for so-called "slow fashion."
After writer Olivia Laing relocated to New York from England, she quickly discovered how lonely you can feel in crowd. Still reeling after a breakup and struggling to adapt to a new country, she turned to artists like Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz to better understand how you can still feel isolated in a city teeming with millions of people.
Neurologist Dave Soldier collaborated with scientist Richard Lair to teach elephants to play music. They’ve released the results of the Thai Elephant Orchestra.
Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.
Candacy Taylor is an award-winning photographer, writer and visual artist.
In an essay called "Fail," Chuck Klosterman examines the thinking behind the so-called "Unabomber Manifesto."
David Hughes is the author of “The Complete Lynch,” a comprehensive study of film-maker David Lynch’s work. Hughes talks about meeting Lynch in Prague, and they talk about Lynch’s use of sound.
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