So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right? But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do? Here's MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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This book really got us excited. 12 x 36. 10 pounds. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic. And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. Publisher Charles Mier tell us what the hell it is (and what is isn't).
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is making its way up the best-seller lists for a reason — it's a fascinating blend of magic and art, with the allure of the circus and the tempered reality of dreams.
Wesley Stace has written a novel called "By George" is the story of a family of entertainers, as told by two boys named George - one of whom is a ventriloquist's dummy.
Jennifer Jacquet explains how public shaming can be used to promote political change and social reform.
Perhaps no other person was a greater advocate for film and film criticism than Roger Ebert. With a career spanning more than 50 years, Ebert was the source America turned to for advice on what to watch week after week. A few years before his death, Roger Ebert sat down with Steve Paulson and reflected on his legendary and prolific career as a film critic.
William Broad tells Steve Paulson how a multi-disciplinary scientific team recently proved that the secret of the ancient sisterhood of mystics in Greece...
Ruth Leitman directed a documentary film called “Lipstick and Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling,” about the first female professional wrestlers.
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