Danielle Ofri is a practicing physician today. It’s a life she owes in part to mentors like "Joseph Sitkin", who taught her as a resident.. In her essay “Intensive Care” from the book “Writer, MD” – she describes her time as a young doctor and the emotional price that can come with a license to practice medicine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nicholas Felton transforms data into something beautiful. As a self-described "information designer" and extremely dedicated life logger, he tracks aspects of his life over the course of the year and then publishes them as "annual reports."
Esther Iverem tells Jim Fleming about the first time she saw Spike Lee's film "She Gotta Have It" and why she thought it marked the start of a new wave of Black cinema.
Borges' "The Library of Babel" has inspired generations of writers and now, many scientists. Here, we read several excerpts from the story.
David Perkins, founding member of Harvard think tank Project Zero, talks with Anne Strainchamps about Eureka Moments.
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of a novel called “Prep.” She tells Steve Paulson what she has in common with her lead character and why she feels protective of her.
E.O. Wilson may know more about ants than anyone else on the planet...
Betsy Lerner tells Anne Strainchamps about her long history with Overeaters Anonymous, bi-polar disorder, depression, psychiatric hospitalization and binge eating.
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