David Harvey doesn't focus on subprime loans or lending. Instead he looks at the internal contradictions of capitalism itself.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.
What he learned from Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman.
Artist Neil Harbisson was born greyscale colorblind. He says he liked seeing only in shades of black and white, but he still wanted to experience color. So he developed an implant that would help him hear colors well beyond the normal human spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrareds.
In this extended conversation, Neil talks about the art he makes with his new sense, and about the challenges of living cyborg.
What’s it like to grow up with a great naturalist? Well, it made quite an impression on the children of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold.
Writer and activist Astra Taylor calls for a Jubilee to buy and abolish debt.
If the mall-as-temple turns you off, you may be ready for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
TTBOOK producer Charles Monroe-Kane reports on what he thought was a piece of youth media - MTV's hit comedy "The Andy Milonakis Show."
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