His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
Blanche Barton is the former High Priestess of the Church of Satan. She tells Steve Paulson that Satanists are outsiders who do not worship Satan.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.
One future that most of face is seeing someone in the mirror we don’t quite recognize. Here’s Donna McNeil’s story about facing aging.
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