Fashion designer Suzanne Lee makes jackets and skirts out of cloth she grows by fermenting liquid in a big vat. In the future, she believes we'll harness nature to grow all sorts of clothing and other products.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Douglas Coupland says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to “get” irony and the rest take everything at face value.
Charles Monroe-Kane is tired of hearing Baby Boomers wax nostalgic and he tells us why.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Anthony Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the war in Iraq. He knows the violence of war. As he told Steve Paulson, he also knows, that when the war ends, unintended consequences follow.
Christian Wiman is a poet and editor of Poetry Magazine. His latest book of poems, Every Riven Thing, is a celebration of life and an exploration of mortality.
Azadeh Moaveni talks about growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.
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