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Doctors have a lot to lose and gain in the healthcare reform debate. As president of a trade organization representing 20,000 surgeons, Dr. Zuckerman outlines their agenda.
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Lifting weights will help stave off bone loss but some extra meat on your hips will, too.
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Year-round athletics and repetitive workout regimes spike the risk of injury.
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Innovations in materials used for joint replacement allow formerly crippled patients to live-pain fee.
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As a child, NYU’s Zuckerman was entranced by Ben Casey, a flashy small screen surgeon. Decades later, he realized his hero was exactly the kind of doctor he didn’t want […]
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A conversation with Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases and 2009 President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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Kaiser Permanente digitized everything from medical records to doctor-patient visits. CEO George Halvorson describes the process and how it transcends technology.
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George Halvorson believes in the power of information technology to transform the American health care system. So why isn’t it front and center in the current debate?
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Americans pay more for health care than any other industrialized country. Yet why does the debate totally ignore this point?
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From crime capital to financial mecca, Bob Lieber has witnessed a New York with many personalities. What will its future hold after the supposed end of the Wall Street era?
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With midtown Manhattan at capacity, Bob Lieber is focused on developing other parts of the city. Here’s why he thinks the Bronx is poised for growth.
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He thinks our country needs a wake-up call a little bit about how we’re positioning ourselves.
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Bob Lieber spent his entire career at Lehman Brothers. Now he makes a dollar a year as Deputy Mayor for New York City. How did he manage for the new […]
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Deputy Mayor of Economic Development what the first extension of a subway line financed by the city will bring.
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A Conversation with the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development for the City of New York.
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The former CEO of Mexico City’s Urban Development Corporation feels a tremendous energy in modern New York. But an over-reliance on the financial industry, he warns, will leave it vulnerable […]
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What keeps Excel Venture Management’s Juan Enriquez awake at night? Sheer excitement about our new golden age of discovery.
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Will the U.S. confront new secession movements in the 21st century? “Untied States of America” author Juan Enriquez hopes not—and offers suggestions as to how his book’s worst-case scenario can […]
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Venture capitalist Juan Enriquez analyzes the divergent fates of China and Latin America and what lessons they hold for the rest of the world.
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Like any major new technology, genomics carries the potential for major catastrophe. What are the risks and how can they be contained?
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It’s not your imagination: information really is bombarding us in greater and greater quantities. As Juan Enriquez explains, the actual statistics are even more outrageous than you’d think.
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Biotechonomy CEO Juan Enriquez explains why genomics is a kind of language—and why it will drive the 21st-century economy.
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From lab-grown human ears to fuel made out of algae, the ability to write “life code” will bring extraordinary changes to our economy—and our lives.
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A conversation with the Biotechonomy CEO and Managing Director of Excel Venture Management.
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For the classical pianist, the creative process is a continuous mingling of conscious and unconscious experience, ranging from abstract paintings to the moment of death.
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Alcohol, drugs and pathology blur the boundaries between a various forms of experience, and as such are the perfect fuel for the artist.
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Preparing for a piano concert is a strange process. But, as the musician explains, crafting an incredible experience always is.
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As the classical pianist explains, the beginnings of a career in music are often formed during youth learning how to “live in music.”
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There is nothing more tragic in a life, believes the classical pianist, than not meeting the potential of one’s talents. To stave off this tragedy, he explains, one must learn […]
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Big Think sits down with the classical pianist.
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