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Lady Gaga at Marc Jacobs, wearing…Marc Jacobs—Harriet Mays Powell explores the symbiotic relationship between fashion and celebrity.
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Harriet Mays Powell dissects the complex relationship between the fashion capitals of the world and their clothes.
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The fashion director at New York Magazine breaks down the hits, misses and total disappointments from what was overall a good fashion week for NYC.
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With the advent of “Karl Lagerfeld for H&M” and eminently affordable designers like Diane Von Furstenburg and Tory Burch, Harriet Mays Powell thinks we may have seen the end of […]
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Gay Talese describes the tobacco-filled and liquor-drenched newsrooms of The New York Times in the sixties—where men passed out on typewriters, and no one was quite sure just how the […]
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Since growing up in his parents’ tailoring and dressmaking shop in New Jersey, the writer has maintained a taste for family craftsmanship.
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The constraints of reality, Gay Talese argues, have turned many great writers away from non-fiction. Yet, with the proper patience and engagement with one’s subject, those bound to the facts […]
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Sex, claims Gay Talese, has always been everywhere—it’s just a matter of how one has to go about finding it. Here he explains how, while there have been few changes […]
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Gay Talese describes the deleterious effects that recording devices, hollowed expense accounts, and an emphasis on ‘indoor life’ have had on the writing process.
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The key to a lasting relationship, says Gay Talese, is looking past the ‘mating game’s’ wonted rituals and flowery ambiguities and learning to emphasize mutual freedom and respect.
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Gay Talese explains how a childhood spent eavesdropping on conversations in a New Jersey dress-shop and a lingering sense of being an outsider prepared him for the writing life.
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The head of Kaiser Permanente offers up advice to fellow CEOs.
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The CEO of Kaiser is optimistic about the future of U.S. health care.
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We need a system that encourages providers to work to cure the sicker people, says Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson.
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Healthcare reform is off the ground. What now? Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson outlines the next steps we need to take to arrive at the perfect healthcare system.
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George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente believes patients need more access to data and should be rewarded for taking care of chronic conditions.
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The CEO of Kaiser Permanente thinks the ideal health care plan would be built around the patient. What we have now is a silent system, he says.
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Kaiser Permanente is an all-encompassing health care entity: payer, medical group, hospital and pharmacy, lab and equipment owner. CEO George Halvorson explains the secret to the company’s efficiencies.
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A conversation with the CEO of Kaiser Permanente.
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Duke University Professor David Goldstein says genetics researchers must be vigilant against sensationalism.
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A conversation with the cartoon editor of The New Yorker.
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Robert Mankoff was always funny, but that doesn’t mean that his path to the New Yorker was an easy one – he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the magazine before being […]
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Do men and woman have different senses of humor? Cartoonist Robert Mankoff explains how each gender tends to use humor differently: women use it to share something about themselves, and […]
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Where does comedy go from here? According to the cartoon editor of the New Yorker, it can only journey inward or towards ever-increasing depths of absurdity.
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Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker, explains how humor “works,” what it can explain about human nature, and considers the limits of bad comedic taste.
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Jokes as we know them today are a relatively recent invention, says New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff. In fact, modern humor draws its roots to back only to the […]
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Cartoonist Robert Mankoff has dedicated his career to understanding humor. He talks to Big Think about the science behind laughter and its importance to both humans and other animals.
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Dr. Marc Bessler calls Atkins “extreme” and explains the difference between “good carbs” and “bad carbs.”
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According to Dr. Marc Bessler, maintaining good nutrition depends on learning healthy eating habits as a child.
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Reducing calorie intake is more important than sticking to a strict diet, says Dr. Marc Bessler.
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