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Professor of Neuroscience & Principal Investigator at Columbia University’s
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
I came to neuroscience from a humanistic perspective. I was very interested
to find out who we are. What do we know? What do we think we know? Why do
we think we know certain things? How do we see things? How do we perceive
them? Ultimately, the question behind curiosity is what things we find
interesting in our environment. The way I think about eye movements is that
they really are trained in some largely subconscious process. -
Professor of Neuroscience & Principal Investigator at Columbia University’s
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
I came to neuroscience from a humanistic perspective. I was very interested
to find out who we are. What do we know? What do we think we know? Why do
we think we know certain things? How do we see things? How do we perceive
them? Ultimately, the question behind curiosity is what things we find
interesting in our environment. The way I think about eye movements is that
they really are trained in some largely subconscious process. -
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist · NYTimes Op-Ed Columnist
Author of Chasing Hope, A Reporter's Life · Coauthor of Half the Sky ·
Tightrope · A Path Appears
I'm trying to get people to care about a crisis in ways that may bring
solutions to it. And that's also how I deal with the terror and the fear to
find a sense of purpose in what I do. It's incredibly heartbreaking to see
some of the things and hear some of the stories, but at the end of the day,
it feels like–inconsistently here and there–you can shine a light on
problems, and by shining that light, you actually make a difference. -
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist · NYTimes Op-Ed Columnist
Author of Chasing Hope, A Reporter's Life · Coauthor of Half the Sky ·
Tightrope · A Path Appears
I'm trying to get people to care about a crisis in ways that may bring
solutions to it. And that's also how I deal with the terror and the fear to
find a sense of purpose in what I do. It's incredibly heartbreaking to see
some of the things and hear some of the stories, but at the end of the day,
it feels like–inconsistently here and there–you can shine a light on
problems, and by shining that light, you actually make a difference. -
Literary Critic · Historian of Science · Educator
Author of Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of
Modern Science
There is a stronger connection between Dickinson and Darwin than the
proximity of history. Or the universality of literature. They both
understood natural science and the natural world in ways that seem strange
and somewhat surprising in the 21st century. Their 19th century attitudes
to nature and the study of it are so different from ours that when we trace
their stories, a vanished world begins to emerge. The more I consider these
figures together, the more I feel their world and my world. come alive.
Darwin and Dickinson illuminate each other. By reading them together, we
can start to understand the interconnected relationships that animated 19th
century poetry and science. -
on the Recent Elections in Britain and France
I would say what we can celebrate is the incredible mobilization of the
young people. They went everywhere, they knocked on the door, they
mobilized. This was an incredible, incredible mobilization. So that was
extraordinary because it showed real mobilization and an understanding that
the National Rally was a real threat. We knew that if they came to power,
the first people who would be targeted would be people of color, and that
was absolutely clear. -
Author · Historian · Curator
Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics · The Eyelid ·
Marvellous Utopia
I like to think of utopianism as “effective social daydreaming” because
utopia is associated with consciously imagining societies. Our imagination
is always involved in creating reality. The opposition between the two,
reality and the imaginary, is not a stark one; they're porous. -
Author · Historian · Curator
Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics · The Eyelid ·
Marvellous Utopia
I like to think of utopianism as “effective social daydreaming” because
utopia is associated with consciously imagining societies. Our imagination
is always involved in creating reality. The opposition between the two,
reality and the imaginary, is not a stark one; they're porous. -
Can silence be painted? How can artists capture interior states, solitude,
and the passing of time? How are the homes we live in a reflection of the
people who inhabit them? How can we read a painting to piece together the
life of the artist? -
Oscar & Emmy-winning Director
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge · A Girl in the River
Forthcoming Star Wars film starring Daisy Ridley
As a filmmaker, I've always made films about extraordinary women whose
lives are faced with extenuating circumstances who've had adversity thrown
at them and who've risen to the occasion. And when I began to look at
Diane's story, for me, Diane is a fashion designer, but she's so much more.
Her central ethos is woman before fashion, and we felt it was very
important to take that ethos and weave it into the spine of our film, and
make it about the woman. -
Oscar & Emmy-winning Director
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge · A Girl in the River
Forthcoming Star Wars film starring Daisy Ridley
As a filmmaker, I've always made films about extraordinary women whose
lives are faced with extenuating circumstances who've had adversity thrown
at them and who've risen to the occasion. And when I began to look at
Diane's story, for me, Diane is a fashion designer, but she's so much more.
Her central ethos is woman before fashion, and we felt it was very
important to take that ethos and weave it into the spine of our film, and
make it about the woman. -
Founder & President of PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
I think things do change because of agitation. So agitation is vital. I
mean, nobody who is in a cause should be there to win a popularity contest,
whether you're working for children or the elderly or working for peace
animals, it's all against nonviolence, aggression, domination, and needless
cruelty and suffering. It's all for respect. So you have to be vigorous.
You have to use your voice. You can use it politely, but if people don't
listen, at PETA, we escalate. So we always start off with a polite letter,
a polite entreaty. We always try to, as I say, do the homework. So we have
the options that we put out on the table to say, look, instead of doing
this, you could do that, and we will help you transition to that. -
Director · Center for Environment, Community, & Equity
Author of Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
I call myself an apocalyptic optimist. In other words, I do believe there
is hope to save ourselves from the climate crisis that we have caused.
However, I also believe that saving ourselves will only be possible with a
mass mobilization that is driven by the pain and suffering of climate
shocks around the world. A generalized sense of extreme risk can lead to
peaceful and less-peaceful mass mobilizations at the levels needed to
stimulate an AnthroShift. Only a global risk event (or numerous smaller
events that are seen as threatening social and economic centers of power)
will motivate the kind of massive social change that is needed. In other
words, without a risk pivot—be it driven by social or environmental
change—an AnthroShift that is large enough to respond adequately to the
climate crisis and open a large enough window of opportunity postshock is
improbable. -
Director · Center for Environment, Community, & Equity
Author of Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
I call myself an apocalyptic optimist. In other words, I do believe there
is hope to save ourselves from the climate crisis that we have caused.
However, I also believe that saving ourselves will only be possible with a
mass mobilization that is driven by the pain and suffering of climate
shocks around the world. A generalized sense of extreme risk can lead to
peaceful and less-peaceful mass mobilizations at the levels needed to
stimulate an AnthroShift. Only a global risk event (or numerous smaller
events that are seen as threatening social and economic centers of power)
will motivate the kind of massive social change that is needed. In other
words, without a risk pivot—be it driven by social or environmental
change—an AnthroShift that is large enough to respond adequately to the
climate crisis and open a large enough window of opportunity postshock is
improbable. -
Author of Working to Restore: Harnessing the Power of Business to Heal the
Earth
The term regenerative business started coming into the lexicon in 2017,
2018. And regenerative means to regenerate, means to bring life into
something. To sustain means to keep the status quo. And regenerative looks
at things from a very holistic lens. You know, it's like if you're going to
run a regenerative farm, it's all the different components of the farm and
the ecosystem ideally come within the ecosystem. -
Author of Working to Restore: Harnessing the Power of Business to Heal the
Earth
The term regenerative business started coming into the lexicon in 2017,
2018. And regenerative means to regenerate, means to bring life into
something. To sustain means to keep the status quo. And regenerative looks
at things from a very holistic lens. You know, it's like if you're going to
run a regenerative farm, it's all the different components of the farm and
the ecosystem ideally come within the ecosystem. -
Author of The Wandering · Apple and Knife
Editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets · Co-ed. The Routledge
Companion to Asian Cinemas
The Wandering is a choose your own adventure novel, and the reader is
situated in the shoes of this brown woman from the Global South. She's 27
and in a way, she is stuck with her life. She aspires to be middle class,
but her job doesn't allow her to achieve this social mobility. In her
condition, she makes a deal with a devil, a reference to the story of Faust
and Mephistopheles, finally getting a pair of red shoes that will take her
anywhere. But that means she will never be able to find home—that's the
curse of the shoes. The title in Indonesian is Gentayanga, which is a word
used to describe ghosts who exist in a liminal state. -
Author of The Wandering · Apple and Knife
Editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets · Co-ed. The Routledge
Companion to Asian Cinemas
The Wandering is a choose your own adventure novel, and the reader is
situated in the shoes of this brown woman from the Global South. She's 27
and in a way, she is stuck with her life. She aspires to be middle class,
but her job doesn't allow her to achieve this social mobility. In her
condition, she makes a deal with a devil, a reference to the story of Faust
and Mephistopheles, finally getting a pair of red shoes that will take her
anywhere. But that means she will never be able to find home—that's the
curse of the shoes. The title in Indonesian is Gentayanga, which is a word
used to describe ghosts who exist in a liminal state. -
Co-Editor of The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity
Author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black
Mediterranean
A Black geographic perspective for me was really helpful in trying to
clarify how we can simultaneously understand Blackness as a global project,
that is anti-national, that transcends borders, but that also takes on
really specific meanings and practices in different places…engagements with
Black geographies that are looking just beyond the framework of North
America. -
Intimacy Coordinator · Founder of Intimacy on Set
Author of Intimacy On Set Guidelines
For years, people spoke about how awkward or embarrassing it was to perform
the intimate content. And what they're speaking about is feeling horrible.
If something's awkward, that squirm, that ring in the body, it feels
embarrassing. That's actually an emotion that is not professional. That is
not allowing the actor to stay feeling listened to, heard, empowered,
autonomous. And so that they can just get on without any of those concerns
and do their job to their best ability. And that's the awareness that we
brought. So, we're saying, it is not suitable in our workplace for anybody
to feel harassed or abused.