All Videos Whose poetry informs your work? Everything from Irish song to Yevgeny Evtushenko. ▸ 7 min — with Paul Muldoon
All Videos Which Poets Informed Your Poetry? “Nobody ever wrote sweeter poetry with a human voice” than the 16th and 17th-century poets. ▸ 3 min — with Robert Pinsky
All Videos Does the media accurately portray Muslim life in America? The spectrum of American media representation of Muslims stretches from informed reporting to mindless fear-mongering. ▸ 3 min — with Paul Barrett
All Videos Lisa Randall: Should science inform politics? A little scientific method couldn’t hurt. ▸ 1 min — with Lisa Randall
All Videos Arianna Huffington on Truth for Access Challenging opinion and reason leads to better information, says Huffington. ▸ 2 min — with Arianna Huffington
All Videos How has the history of architecture informed your work? You can’t participate in history without understanding what it is. ▸ 1 min — with Lee Mindel
All Videos Is the media a reliable source of information about science? It’s not the media, Vest says. It’s the education system. ▸ 8 min — with Charles Vest
All Videos Robert Pinsky on the passing of time Each phase of life brings new information about life, Pinsky says gratefully. ▸ 3 min — with Robert Pinsky
All Videos How does design inform our lives? How do we use design – and brands – to identify ourselves? ▸ 5 min — with Paola Antonelli
All Videos How does religion inform your worldview? Adam Bly talks about his life experience with faith. ▸ 5 min — with Adam Bly
All Videos The Risks of Too Much Information Encouraging the dilettantes is one unfortunate side effect of the information age. ▸ 1 min — with Jason Kottke
All Videos Simon de Pury: How does art inform our lives? De Pury sees the art in the work of Steve Jobs and Tupac Shakur. ▸ 3 min — with Simon de Pury
All Videos How do you contribute? Riemen hopes to raise essential questions about the quality of information, in some small way, restore meaning to language. ▸ 4 min — with Rob Riemen
All Videos Does religion inform your worldview? “If I wasn’t doing cooking, I’d probably go to divinity school.” ▸ 5 min — with David Chang
All Videos What writers inform your work? Remnick talks about the twin influences of Bob Dylan and Philip Roth. ▸ 3 min — with David Remnick
All Videos Re: Does religion inform your worldview? “You must love one another or die.” ▸ 3 min — with Dana Gioia
All Videos Does religion inform your worldview? The conversation of religion is full of lessons. ▸ 3 min — with Kwame Anthony Appiah
All Videos Which philosophers inform your work? Past philosophers and thinkers who have influenced Appiah’s work. ▸ 3 min — with Kwame Anthony Appiah
All Videos What are the risks of centralizing information? Although people’s lives become more transparent, there is more transparency into the government or into other institutions as well. ▸ 3 min — with Peter Thiel
All Videos How is technology changing the environmental movement? Increasing access to information is a significant new development. ▸ 2 min — with Carl Pope
All Videos New Developments in Engineering Moving from physics to microbiology, information technology and nanotechnology. ▸ 3 min — with Charles Vest
All Videos Can China continue to control the flow of information? Philippe Cayla of EuroNews says that China is acting within its sovereign rights in preventing information from reaching its citizens, but that the West should do what it can to […] ▸ 1 min — with Philippe Cayla
All Videos Does religion inform your worldview? Hinduism teaches that all ways of reaching out to God are equally valid, Tharoor says. ▸ 3 min — with Shashi Tharoor
All Videos Does religion inform your worldview? Belief in something we absolutely can’t see, for which there’s no evidence, cuts against the grain of what it means to be a scientist to me. ▸ 3 min — with Dan Gilbert
All Videos Religion Informs World View Walk humbly and love justice, suggests Kennedy. ▸ 1 min — with Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009
All Videos Does religion inform your worldview? One’s faith can survive a split between theology and iconography. ▸ 2 min — with Billy Collins
All Videos What do you believe? It is absolutely vital to keep the public informed. ▸ 2 min — with Matt Bai
All Videos How does religion inform your work? Harbison can read the King James Bible over and over. ▸ 3 min — with John Harbison
All Videos What informed your ideas about the law? The Constitution creates institutions so people can decide things for themselves. ▸ 3 min — with Stephen Breyer