An Intellectual Insider, Forever on the Outside
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Introverted and combative, Alfred Kazin, who died in 1998 at 83, presents a wealth of contradictions for Richard M. Cook to put his arms around.
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Often dismissed as a quirky pipe dream, it took a thrill-seeking mogul to energize one of mankind's oldest desires. By James Lee from Wired magazine.
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Arts & entertainment: Some of the most radical buildings ever made owe their existence to Cecil Balmond. Jonathan Glancey salutes the engineer who defies belief.
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Nobody has done more than Lawrence Lessig to help people understand the effects of technology on the laws governing intellectual property.
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Opinion Man on the edge of IM insanity
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Diana Szeinblum is intrigued by the idea of interior space, or the body as a container of hidden memories.
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Scott Peterson was living two lives. In one he was a jet-setting playboy with his whole life ahead of him; and in the other -- his real life -- he
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We pay a lot of lip service to the idea of the rugged individualist, but Jack Kerouac's amped-up classic reminds us that real freedom remains a precious, elusive thing. Commentary by Tony Long.
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The work of Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University shatters barriers, interweaving control theory, fluid mechanics, robotics, and biology.
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Reader Shivani sends us her experiences.
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Mike Baker considers what it takes to be an inspirational and unforgettable  teacher.
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Nigel Nicolson, who spent his life at the pinnacle of British intellectual and political society, died Sept.
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Veteran computer scientist Frances Allen looks back on Ptran, "primitive" computing and what it was like making her way in a man's world.
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He is an intensely private person who keeps his emotions well guarded under closet-key.
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âWalter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace,â writes Sara Rimer (New York Times). Due to MIT OpenCourseWare, the âglobal classroomâ that delivers more than 1800 courses via the MIT website, Lewin receives fan mail from students all over the world. âProfessor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea that he is spreading the love of physics. âTeaching is my life,â he said.â Like to sit in on a physics course taught by Professor Lewin? You can download free video podcasts of his lectures on iTunes.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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The neuropsychiatrist and author talks about why womenÂs brains are wired for gossip, why men arenÂt as verbal and why, when it comes to intelligence, brain size doesnÂt matter.