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Is This The Price of Genius?

Left to right: mathematician Georg Cantor, mathematician, and philosopher Kurt Gödel, mathematician and political activist Evariste Galois, and mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.
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There’s a well-documented link between exceptional creativity and mental illness. Philosopher Jim Holt recounts stories of some of the most beautiful minds in math and science. Were their achievements worth the personal costs? Absolutely.

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11:54

The Puzzle of Ethnic Literary Labels

Books on the shelf
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David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation. He’s a literature professor at the University of Southern California, as well as a writer and a novelist. And he does not believe in putting fiction into ethnic boxes.

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13:03

Raised On A Reservation, Can A White Man Write Native Poetry?

Kevin Goodan with all his brothers and step-father this summer.
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Do you have to be Native American to write Native American fiction? Kevin Goodan grew up among the Salish people. His brothers and stepfather are tribal members. But Kevin is white.

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14:05

Rendering the Truth in Poetic Prose

Terese Mailhot
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Author Terese Mailhot's best-selling debut book "Heart Berries" is a slim, devastating memoir of a childhood filled with abuse, set on the Seabird Island Band in British Columbia. She reads a passage to demonstrate the lyric quality of her prose.

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03:08

"There Is A Movement": Native Students Writing the Future

The IAIA campus
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A new wave of Native writers is coming of age. And at the center of it is a one-of-a-kind MFA program at the IAIA, in Santa Fe. Director Jennifer Foerster told Charles that the goal is to rewrite the literary landscape.

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05:59

A Message From A Web Pioneer: Delete Your Account. Right Now.

Girl with phone
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Jaron Lanier — the visionary computer scientist who helped build the internet and invent virtual reality — thinks the solution to our Facebook problems is clear.

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11:48

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