Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.
In 2024, he co-founded The School for Moral Ambition, a non-profit organization inspired by his latest book Moral Ambition (2025) that wants to help as many people as possible to take the step towards a job with a positive impact.
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WOO-KYOUNG AHN is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. After receiving her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was assistant professor at Yale University and associate professor at Vanderbilt University. In 2022, she received Yale’s Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
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Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (November 19, 1900, Mainz – June 1, 1983, Berlin) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.
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In Cologne and Heidelberg she studied history, the history of art and Chinese. She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928, at the height of its struggle against the burgeoning National Socialist German Workers Party. Her 1932 novel, Die Gefährten was a prophetic warning of the dangers of Fascism, which led to her being arrested by the Gestapo.
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Ken Mogi
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* 茂木 健一郎 (Japanese)
* Ken Mogi (English)
* โมงิ เคนอิจิโร่ (Thai)
Kenichirō "Ken" Mogi (茂木 健一郎 Mogi Kenichirō) is a Japanese scientist. He is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. According to the profile posted at his personal blog, his mission is "to solve the so-called mind-brain problem."
After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1985 with a degree in science and in 1987 with a degree in law, Mogi received in 1992 a Ph.D. with the thesis "Mathematical Model of Muscle Contraction".
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Gerald Hüther
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope (Greek: Διογένης ὁ Σινωπεύς, Diogenēs ho Sinōpeus) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogenēs ho Kunikos), he was born in Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey), an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE.
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Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure. His father minted coins for a living, and when Diogenes took to debasement of currency, he was banished from Sinope. After being exiled, he moved to Athens to debunk cultural conventions. Diogenes modelled himself on the example of Hercules. He believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. He used his simple lifestyl -
Rachel Adams
Rachel Adams is a writer and Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous academic articles and book reviews, as well as two books: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (both published by the University of Chicago Press). Her writing has also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times of London. Her book, Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, will be published by Yale University Press in September. She lives in New York City.
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David R. Boyd
David R. Boyd is an environmental lawyer, professor, and advocate for recognition of the right to live in a healthy environment. Boyd is the award-winning author of seven books and more than 100 articles and currently co-chairs Vancouver’s Greenest City initiative with Mayor Gregor Robertson. He lives on Pender Island, B.C. For more information, visit DavidRichardBoyd.com.
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Nick Romeo
Nick Romeo covers policy and ideas for The New Yorker and teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The MIT Technology Review, and many other venues.
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Ed Winters
Ed Winters, "Earthling Ed", is a vegan educator, public speaker and content creator based in London, England. Winters is the co-founder and co-director of Surge, an animal rights organisation determined to create a world where compassion towards all non-human animals is the norm.
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In 2016 Surge founded The Official Animal Rights March which succeeded in a growth from 2,500 participants in London in 2016 to 28,000 participants across the world in 2018. In 2017 Winters produced the documentary Land of Hope and Glory and launched the on-going moving activism project The Big Vegan Activism Van. He has spoken at over 1/3 of UK universities and at 6 Ivy league colleges, including as a guest lecturer at Harvard University. He has given speeches acr -
Taina Tervonen
Born in Senegal in 1973, Taina Tervonen is a Finnish journalist, filmmaker and author writing in French and currently based in Paris. Self-described as a “teller of true stories”, she is the author of several books of non-fiction that deal with serious social topics. Her work, “The Country of the Disappeared” was the winner of the 2019 Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism, and her film “Speaking with the Dead” was her first full-length feature documentary and a selection of the Cinéma du Réel festival in 2020. She is the recipient of the Jan Michalski Award in 2022 for this title, originally published as “Les Fossoyeuses” (Editions Marchialy) in 2021, which celebrates a work of excellence by a European writer that concerns human right
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William MacAskill
I'm Will MacAskill, an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford, and author of Doing Good Better (Gotham Books, 2015). I've also cofounded two non-profits: 80,000 Hours, which provides research and advice on how you can best make a difference through your career, and Giving What We Can, which encourages people to commit to give at least 10% of their income to the most effective charities. These organisations helped to spark the effective altruism movement.
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Michiel Vos
Michiel Vos is een gerenommeerd journalist en Amerikacorrespondent. Hij woont midden in het bruisende New York en is dé brug tussen Nederland en de VS. Vos schuift regelmatig aan bij bekende talkshows en actualiteitenprogramma's, waar hij je meeneemt naar het kloppende hart van de Amerikaanse democratie.
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Robert Schnakenberg
Robert Schnakenberg has been called "the Howard Zinn of nerd pop culture." He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Old Man Drinks, Christopher Walken A-to-Z, Secret Lives of Great Authors, and the New York Times bestseller The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray. His work has appeared in Penthouse.
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Markku Mantila
Peräseinäjoella lapsuutensa elänyt Mantila tuli ylioppilaaksi 1983. Hän opiskeli Turun yliopistossa 1986–1991 ja valmistui valtiotieteiden maisteriksi pääaineenaan valtio-oppi ja sivuaineena poliittinen historia. Hän suoritti M.Sc.-tutkinnon London School of Economicsissa 1993. Hän oli toimittaja Ilkassa 1985–1988 ja Turun Sanomissa 1988–1994, josta ajasta neljä viimeistä vuotta taloustoimittajana. Hän on työskennellyt valtioneuvoston viestintäjohtajana, sanomalehti Kalevan ja sitä ennen sanomalehti Pohjalaisen vastaavana päätoimittajana sekä ulkoministeriössä. Markku aloitti Ilkka-Pohjalaisen ensimmäisenä päätoimittaja vuoden 2020 alussa. Mantila on palvellut diplomaattina Suomen suurlähetystöissä Etelä-Koreassa ja Espanjassa. Markku Manti
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Karim Amghar
Karim Amghar is schrijver, programmamaker en mbo-docent.
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Hij schrijft voor De Correspondent en Trouw en is auteur van de boeken Van radicaal naar amicaal en Hoor mij zie mij. Als programmamaker en presentator maakt hij televisieseries voor Human en NTR over mentale gezondheid, kansengelijkheid en diversiteit. Hij presenteerde veelgeprezen programma’s als Het M-Woord en De Maastrichtse droom.
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Tracey Turner
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Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine is a prize winning author and academic. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and Times Literary supplement. Cordelia won the Royal Society Science Book Prize in 2017, and was awarded the 2018 Edinburgh Medal, which honors men and women of science who have made a significant contribution to the understanding and well-being of humanity. In 2023 she was named a 'living legend' by The Australian newspaper.
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Joris Luyendijk
Ik werd in 1971 geboren in Amsterdam, maar groeide vanaf mijn vijfde op in Hilversum, een dorp onder de rook van de hoofdstad. In 1990 kreeg ik de kans om een jaar in Amerika te gaan studeren en ik dacht met mijn Hollandse kop: als ik nou een universiteit kies in het midden van het land, zit ik lekker centraal. Zo kwam ik terecht in Kansas, en ik denk niet dat ik ooit nog zo geïsoleerd zal wonen. Mensen daar zijn al trots als ze op de kaart kunnen aanwijzen dat Europa boven Afrika ligt. Na een heerlijk jaar tussen optimistische mensen ging ik in Amsterdam studeren, wat uitmondde in een zwerftocht van politicologie, via geschiedenis, naar Arabische en religieuze antropologie. In 1995 deed ik een jaar onderzoek onder Egyptische leeftijdsgenot
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Teun van de Keuken
Teun Gerrit (Teun) van de Keuken is a Dutch journalist and television and radio program maker.
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In 2015 Van de Keuken wrote the book Puur en Eerlijk (Pure and Fair) about misleading consumers. Goed Volk, a novel based on Van de Keuken's youth, followed in 2017. De
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Sander Schimmelpenninck
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Karim Amghar
Karim Amghar is schrijver, programmamaker en mbo-docent.
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Hij schrijft voor De Correspondent en Trouw en is auteur van de boeken Van radicaal naar amicaal en Hoor mij zie mij. Als programmamaker en presentator maakt hij televisieseries voor Human en NTR over mentale gezondheid, kansengelijkheid en diversiteit. Hij presenteerde veelgeprezen programma’s als Het M-Woord en De Maastrichtse droom.
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Michelle van Tongerloo
Michelle van Tongerloo werkt als huisarts in Rotterdam-Zuid en als straatarts in de Pauluskerk. Voor De Correspondent, LINDA en Medisch Contact schrijft ze over de zorg, overheid en samenleving.
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Hannah Ritchie
Hannah Ritchie is deputy editor and research leader at Our World in Data, an online publication making data and research on the world's largest problems accessible and understandable for non-experts. She is a senior researcher at the University of Oxford, where she studies how environmental issues intersect with others like poverty, global health and education. She has also done extensive research into the question of how to feed everyone in the world a nutritious diet without wrecking the planet. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Economist and New Scientist.
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Jacy Reese Anthis
Jacy Anthis is a social scientist and co-founder of the Sentience Institute. His acclaimed book, The End of Animal Farming, analyzes the development and popularization of food technologies such as plant-based and cell-cultured meat. Psychologist Steven Pinker said the book "places the issue of factory farming in the context of human progress and presents compelling arguments on how we should deal with it today.”
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Anthis' research has been featured in The Guardian, Vox, Forbes, and other global media outlets, and he has presented at conferences and seminars in over 20 countries. He is currently a PhD Fellow at The University of Chicago. He is from Huntsville, Texas and lives in San Francisco with his wife Kelly Anthis and their rescued dogs Ap -
Elaine Fox
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Elaine Fox is a psychologist and neuroscientist who has researched widely on the science of emotions. She grew up in the 1970s in Dublin and has worked at St James Hospital Dublin, University College Dublin, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and has been a visiting senior scientist at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She is currently a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex.
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Akshat Rathi
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Akshat has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. You can sign up to his weekly Zero newsletter, subscribe to his weekly Zero podcast, and follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Emilia A. Leese
Emilia A. Leese, writes essays on life, travel and veganism for a variety of online publications and is closely involved in a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands. She regularly hosts benefit supper clubs and is a speaker on vegan ethics at a variety of events. She also developed life skills and ethics workshops for underserved youth. She has been a corporate finance lawyer for over twenty years. She and her husband Roger, who is also vegan, live in London and the Highlands. Follow her work on Emisgoodeating.com and BirchfieldHighlands.org
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Peter Goes
Peter Goes lives in Belgium where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has also worked as a stage manager and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium
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Mac P. Lorne
Mac P. Lorne is the pen name of German author Matthias Lisse, best known for his historical fiction.
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Will Storr
Will Storr is a long-form journalist, novelist and reportage photographer. His features have appeared in The Guardian Weekend, The Telegraph Magazine, The Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Sunday Times Style and GQ, and he is a contributing editor at Esquire. He has reported from the refugee camps of Africa, the war-torn departments of rural Colombia and the remote Aboriginal communities of Australia, and has been named New Journalist of the Year, Feature Writer of the Year and has won a National Press Club award for excellence. His critically acclaimed first book, Will Storr versus The Supernatural is published by Random House in the UK. The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone is his first novel.
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Tobias Leenaert
Tobias Leenaert is the author of How to Create a Vegan World: a Pragmatic Approach (published in 12 languages) and blogs at www.veganstrategist.org. He is a longtime speaker and strategist, giving talks and trainings all over the world. He is also co-founder of ProVeg International and was previously director of Proveg Belgium for fifteen years. Tobias is keen on thinking out of the box, building bridges between different groups, and practicing what he calls "slow opinion".
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Maarten van Rossem
Maarten van Rossem is a Dutch historian, presenter and commentator. He specializes in the history and politics of the United States. As an expert on America, he is a frequent guest on television talk shows. His public career started when he was asked to comment on the 1984 vice presidential elections. He makes regular TV appearances and gives frequent public lectures.
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Jonas Bruyneel
Jonas Bruyneel is auteur en muzikant. Hij publiceert regelmatig in literaire tijdschriften als Deus Ex Machina, Het Liegend Konijn en Literair Tijdschrift Extaze.
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Begin 2015 debuteerde hij met de verhalenbundel Voorbij het licht. Die bundel werd in 2016 bekroond met de zilveren medaille op de Prijs Letterkunde Proza (Provincie West-Vlaanderen). In februari 2019 verscheen zijn historische roman Vijd bij Uitgeverij Lannoo, gevolgd door een lezingreeks in België en Nederland.
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Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced out of business by the United States government. He has been identified by some contemporary writers as an anarcho-capitalist,while at least one writer is convinced that his advocacy of self-employment over working for an employer for wages qualifies him as an anti-capitalist or a socialist, notwithstanding his support for private ownership of the means of production and a free-market economy.
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Simon Sharpe
Simon Sharpe is Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. He has published influential reports and created ground-breaking international projects in climate change risk assessment, economics, and diplomacy.
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He played a leading role in the UK’s Presidency of the COP26 climate change talks in 2020-21, as Deputy Director of the UK government’s COP26 Unit, where he created global campaigns that led to significant international agreements on ending coal power, moving to zero emission vehicles, and protecting forests. His other roles in government included leading international climate change strategy, establishing low-carbon growth as a priority in the UK’s industrial strategy, and -
Haemin Sunim
Zen Buddhist teacher & bestselling author.
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Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, in South Korea. He taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for seven years.
He is one of the most influential Zen monks in the world. His first book, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over four million copies.
His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of 2016 in South Korea and became available in multiple languages in 2019. Haemin resides in Seoul when not traveling to share his teachings.
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Dai Carter
Dai Carter (1989) diende dertien jaar bij de Koninklijke Landmacht, waarvan de laatste tien bij het Korps Commandotroepen. Hij ging acht keer naar verschillende conflictgebieden en voerde daar geheime missies uit. Dai is een van de hoofdinstructeurs in het succesvolle tv-programma Kamp Van Koningsbrugge.
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Grant Sabatier
Grant Sabatier is the Author of Financial Freedom and the Creator of Millennial Money, which has reached over 10 million readers since 2015.
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Grant went from $2.26 to a millionaire in 5 years, reaching financial independence at the age of 30. He writes and speaks regularly about personal finance, investing, entrepreneurship, and mindfulness and hosts the Financial Freedom podcast.
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Kiko Llaneras
I am Kiko Llaneras, an engineer who writes.
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I am the author of the book 'Think Clearly' / Piensa claro, now in its fourth edition in Spain and soon to be published in English, Japanese, Korean and other languages.
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I am a data journalist at EL PAÍS, the Spanish leading newspaper. I write to analyze what interests me, from elections to football matches.
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Ben Davis
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Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse (born 11 May 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna,[1] and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
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In 2005, she received the Corine Literature Prize. The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK. -
Arie Boomsma
Arie Boomsma (Marken, 1974) is a writer and owner of the Vondelgym gyms. He is a sought-after speaker on vitality and building healthy habits. As a spokesperson for the fitness industry, he regularly appears on TV to make a plea for a healthy society.
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His previous publications include the enormous bestseller FIT. In small steps to a healthier life, which sold more than 80,000 copies, and its sequel, Volhard. Patiently building towards healthy goals.
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Susan Ann Lloyd-Roberts CBE was a British television journalist who contributed reports to BBC programmes and, earlier in her career, worked for ITN.
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Bart De Wever
Flemish nationalist politician and the mayor of Antwerp.
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Since 2004 De Wever is the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a party advocating independence for the Flemish region of Belgium within the EU; he is also a member of the Flemish parliament.
He played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole.
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Calum Chace
Calum studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since early boyhood is actually philosophy in fancy dress.
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He published "Surviving AI", a non-fiction review of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence in September 2015. Previously, he published "Pandora's Brain", a novel about the first conscious machine.
He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com.
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Ap Dijksterhuis
Albert Jan (Ap) Dijksterhuis (Zutphen, 12 november 1968) is schrijver, spreker en psycholoog. Hij is gespecialiseerd in het onbewuste, in inspiratie, en in geluk. Hij heeft verschillende succesvolle bedrijven opgericht en woont samen met zijn vriendin in Nijmegen. Ook heeft hij een zoon.
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Jay Samit
JAY SAMIT has been described by Wired magazine as "having the coolest job in the industry." A technology innovator and entrepreneur, he was a senior advisor to LinkedIn. The former CEO of SeaChange International, the world's leading multiscreen video service provider, and an adjunct professor at USC's School of Engineering, Samit is also a regular on the nationally-syndicated radio show, Business Rockstars.
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Lucia Berlin
Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.
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Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.
Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also -
Jan Paul Schutten
Jan Paul Schutten has been writing children's nonfiction books since 2003. A native of the Netherlands, his books are popular and critically acclaimed; he has won several awards including the Gouden Griffel (Goldent Stylus) for his books Children of Amsterdam and Het raadsel van alles wat leeft.
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Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins did his permaculture design course in 1992, and around the same time saw Bill Mollison lecture in Stroud, and both of these things dramatically changed his life. He became involved in the Bristol Permaculture Group, and at the same time did a degree in Environmental Quality and Resource Management at UWE Bristol. His dissertation, ‘Permaculture - a new approach for rural planning’ is on his website. He moved with his family to Ireland, where he began teaching permaculture and laying the groundwork for the ecovillage development he wanted to undertake.
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He set up Baile Dulra Teoranta, the first company granted charitable status for an eco-village development in Ireland. In September 2005 he moved to Totnes in Devon, to begin a PhD -
Richard Brooks
Former tax-inspector Richard Brooks reports for Private Eye on a range of subjects and has contributed to the Guardian, the BBC, and many other media outlets. With David Craig he was co-author of the bestselling Plundering the Public Sector. In 2008 he was awarded the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism. He lives in Reading.
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Mark Tigchelaar
Mark Tigchelaar (1984) studeerde neuropsychologie en begeleidt kenniswerkers, ondernemers en top- sporters om hun prestaties te verbeteren. Hij heeft verschillende TEDx Talks gegeven over de werking van het brein en wereldwijd hebben meer dan 100.000 mensen een focustraining bij hem gevolgd. Zijn eerdere boeken zijn in zes talen verschenen.
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Joris Luyendijk
Ik werd in 1971 geboren in Amsterdam, maar groeide vanaf mijn vijfde op in Hilversum, een dorp onder de rook van de hoofdstad. In 1990 kreeg ik de kans om een jaar in Amerika te gaan studeren en ik dacht met mijn Hollandse kop: als ik nou een universiteit kies in het midden van het land, zit ik lekker centraal. Zo kwam ik terecht in Kansas, en ik denk niet dat ik ooit nog zo geïsoleerd zal wonen. Mensen daar zijn al trots als ze op de kaart kunnen aanwijzen dat Europa boven Afrika ligt. Na een heerlijk jaar tussen optimistische mensen ging ik in Amsterdam studeren, wat uitmondde in een zwerftocht van politicologie, via geschiedenis, naar Arabische en religieuze antropologie. In 1995 deed ik een jaar onderzoek onder Egyptische leeftijdsgenot
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Sander Schimmelpenninck
Sander Schimmelpenninck (1984) is journalist, columnist bij de Volkskrant en presentator van de Zelfspodcast. In de tv-serie Sander en de kloof stelde hij kansenongelijkheid aan de kaak, in zijn boek Sander en de brug (ruim 27.000 verkocht) deed hij voorstellen om daar iets aan te doen.
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Ulli Olvedi
Ulli Olvedi (*1942) ist Autorin zahlreicher spiritueller Bestseller, Wissenschaftsjournalistin, Begründerin und Lehrerin der "Meditativen Energiearbeit" und Kennerin des tibetischen Buddhismus.
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Roman- und Sachbuchautorin, Dokumentarfilmautorin, Journalistin, Übersetzerin.
Diplomierte Qi Gong-Lehrerin.
Langjährige Seminarleitung im Bereich Buddhistische Spiritualität und Kontemplative Therapie.
Viele Übersetzungen aus dem Englischen, vorwiegend buddhistische Literatur.
Beiträge in Fachbüchern und Zeitschriften über buddhistische Themen.
15 Jahre regelmäßige Mitarbeit bei Radio Bremen "Forum der Wissenschaft".
Features bei WDR und NDR und freie Mitarbeit beim Bayerischen Fernsehen.
1974 bis 2001 Dozentin an der Münchner Volkshochschule:
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Everett N. McKay
Everett McKay is Principal of UX Design Edge and a UX design trainer and consultant with global clientele. Everett’s specialty is finding practical, intuitive, simple, highly usable solutions quickly for web, mobile, and desktop applications. Everett has over 30 years’ experience in user interface design and has delivered UX design workshops to an international audience that includes Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa.
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Everett is author of "Intuitive Design: Eight Steps to an Intuitive Design", the definitive guide to designing intuitive interactions, and "UI Is Communication: How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication", a groundbreaking approach to UI design using human communication-based -
Ernst-Jan Pfauth
Ernst-Jan Pfauth is een van de oprichters van het journalistieke platform De Correspondent. Na negen jaar directeurschap vertrok hij in 2022, en begon het mediabedrijf POM met Alexander Klöpping. Hij schrijft over intentioneel leven en heeft twintig hoofdstukken aan Dagelijkse Rituelen toegevoegd.
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Larry Feign
Larry Feign is an award-winning artist and writer who has worked in Honolulu, Hollywood, London, and currently in Hong Kong. Feign’s work has appeared in Time, The Economist, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications around the world. He also directed animated cartoons for Disney Television and Cartoon Network. He is a MacDowell Fellow and three-time recipient of Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards. He has published numerous books of humor, cartoons, and serious historical fiction, as well as a best-selling children’s book series under under the pen name MD Whalen.
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He lives walking distance from notorious pirate haunts in a small island village with his wife, their two dogs, and the occasional uninvited python. -
Michelle van Tongerloo
Michelle van Tongerloo werkt als huisarts in Rotterdam-Zuid en als straatarts in de Pauluskerk. Voor De Correspondent, LINDA en Medisch Contact schrijft ze over de zorg, overheid en samenleving.
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi is a Mauritanian citizen who has been imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp since August 4, 2002. In 2005, he wrote the nonfiction book Guantánamo Diary , which was published 10 years later.
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Dick Swaab
Dick 'Ferdinand' Swaab is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist. He is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and was previously Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research and the Netherlands Brain Bank.
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Chip Heath
Chip Heath is the professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
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He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford.
He co-wrote a book titled Switch How to Change Things When Change Is Hard with his brother Dan Heath.
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Rolf Dobelli
Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002, but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011, English 2013), for which The Times has called him "the self-help guru the Germans love".
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Patricia Crisafulli
Crisafulli grew up in northern New York State near the Canadian border and worked as a journalist in New York City before settling in Chicago, where she was a reporter and correspondent for Reuters. Her work has appeared in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor, and she is currently a featured blogger for Huffington Post.
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Crisafulli also is the creative force behind what she calls her labor of love, Faith, Hope, and Fiction, a free, bimonthly literary ezine that features fiction, poetry, and essays. -
Andy Beckett
Andy Beckett was born in 1969. He studied modern history at Oxford University and journalism at the University of California in Berkeley. He is a feature writer at the Guardian, and also writes for the London Review of Books and the New York Times magazine. He lives in London.
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John Seed
John Seed is a professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto College in Southern California. Seed has written about art and artists for Arts of Asia, Art Ltd., Catamaran, Harvard Magazine, International Artist, The HuffingtonPost, Hyperallergic.com and Poets and Artists.
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Roman Krznaric
Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to create change. His latest book is the international bestseller The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. His previous books, including Empathy, The Wonderbox, How to Find Fulfilling Work and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than 25 languages. He is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing and founder of the world’s first Empathy Museum. His new book, History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity, is published in July 2024.
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Fritz Riemann
Fritz Riemann was a German psychologist, psychoanalyst, astrologer, and author.
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Jeff Sebo
Jeff Sebo is associate professor of environmental studies; affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy and law; director of the animal studies master’s program; director of the mind, ethics and policy program; and co-director of the wild animal welfare program at New York University. His books are Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (Oxford University Press, 2022), Chimpanzee Rights (Routledge, 2018) and Food, Animals and the Environment (Routledge, 2018).
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Magnus Vinding
Magnus Vinding is the author of Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It (2015), Reflections on Intelligence (2016), You Are Them (2017), Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? (2018), Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (2020), Reasoned Politics (2022), Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics (2022), and Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures (2024).
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His next book will be Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World. -
David Van Reybrouck
David Grégoire Van Reybrouck is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. Moreover, he is the founder of the G1000 project in Belgium, a platform for democratic innovation and inclusive participatory politics.
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He was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer's son, spent five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence.
He studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and obtained a Master's degree in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a doctorate from Leiden University.
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Berliac
Berliac is a manga author born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. He is the author of several graphic-novels and his short stories have been published in anthologies from Korea, United States, and France, among many others.
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Sol Stein
Sol Stein was a best-selling novelist and the publisher of works by James Baldwin and Che Guevara. He also worked with David Frost, Jack Higgins, Elia Kazan, Dylan Thomas, and W.H. Auden.
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Stein and Baldwin met as students at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where they worked on the literary magazine.
Stein served in the Army during World War II. In 1949 he received a master’s degree in English literature from Columbia University.
In the 1950s Stein worked at Voice of America, wrote plays, and moved into publishing. He established his own publishing company, Stein & Day, in 1962 with his then-wife. Stein used other publishers for his own novels so he would not be competing with the authors that Stein & Day published.
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Murong Xuecun
Murong Xuecun (Chinese: 慕容 雪村; pinyin: Mùróng Xuěcūn, born 1974) is the pen name of the Chinese writer Hao Qun (郝群).His debut work Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu (Chinese: 成都，今夜请将我遗忘), which was distributed online, propelled him to stardom. On July 22, 2008 Murong made the long list for the Man Asian Literary Prize. As of November 2011, his microblog account has nearly 1.1 million followers.
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Murong's writing deals mostly with social issues in contemporary China, exploring themes such as corruption, business-government relations, and general disillusionment over modern life. His literature is known for its nihilistic, realist, racy, and fatalist style. Following his rise to fame, Murong has emerged as one of the foremost critics of censor -
Richard Wiseman
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Professor Richard Wiseman started his working life as a professional magician, and was one of the youngest members of The Magic Circle. He then obtained a degree in psychology from University College London and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
Richard currently holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he has gained an international reputation for research into psychology of luck, self-help, persuasion, and illusion. He has published over 50 papers in leading peer reviewed academic journals (including Nature and Psychological Bulletin), and his work has been cited in -
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.
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Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav. -
Chris Voss
A 24 year veteran of the FBI, Chris Voss is one of the preeminent practitioners and professors of negotiating skills in the world. He is the founder and principal of The Black Swan Group, a consulting firm that provides training and advises Fortune 500 companies through complex negotiations. Voss has taught for many business schools, including the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Harvard University, MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, among others.
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Sheena Iyengar
Sheena Iyengar is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia University and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award. She holds an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of Business and a doctorate in social psychology from Stanford University. Her work is regularly cited in periodicals such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and TIME.
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Considered one of the world's experts on choice, Sheena has written her own book, The Art of Choosing. In the book, she explores questions such as why choice is powerful, and where its power comes from; the ways in which people make choices; the relationship between how we choose and who we are; why we are so often disappointed by our choices; how much control we re -
Peter Mertens
Peter Mertens is a Belgian author and politician who has led the Workers' Party of Belgium since 2008. He has served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019, and as a municipal councilor in Antwerp since 2013.
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Zeke Faux
Zeke Faux is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. He’s a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and a National Magazine Award finalist. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Peter Römer
Peter Römer begon zijn carrière als acteur voor toneel en televisie. Daarnaast werkte hij jarenlang als televisieproducent, scenarioschrijver en regisseur. In 2012 verscheen van zijn hand Chantage, de eerste moord roman met rechercheur Hanna Vermeer. Chantage werd genomineerd voor de Schaduwprijs /Gouden Strop. Zijn tweede moordroman is getiteld Bedrog.
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John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (CB, FBA), was an English economist particularly known for his influence in the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics.
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Keynes married Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova in 1925.
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Auden Schendler
Auden Schendler is a climate activist and author who works on meaningful solutions to the climate crisis, including activism, movement building, and project demonstration. A former town councilman, air quality commissioner, Outward Bound Instructor and ambulance medic, he was named a “Climate Saver” by the EPA and a “Climate Innovator,” by Time magazine. His first book, Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, was called “an antidote to greenwash by climatologist James Hansen. Like Walden, A Sand County Almanac, Silent Spring and The Ecology of Commerce, his new book “Terrible Beauty” tries to reset American thinking on the environmental movement, while also telling stories of family, love, beau
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Lucy Crehan
Lucy is a qualified teacher, an education explorer, and an international education consultant. She taught science and psychology at a secondary school in London for three years before turning her sights to research and policy, and gaining a distinction in her Master of Education at the University of Cambridge.
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Since returning from her ground-breaking trip around the world’s ‘top performing’ education systems, she has published a report on teacher career structures for IIEP UNESCO, advised the UK government as part of a working group on teacher workload, and spoken about her work at conferences in the UK, US and Sweden. She now works as part of a team advising foreign governments on education reform at Education Development Trust. Lucy lives -
Richard L. Hasen
Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. In 2013 he was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal, and his previous books include Voting Wars, Plutocrats United, and The Justice of Contradictions. He lives in Studio City, CA.
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Claudia Hammond
Claudia is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and psychology lecturer. She is the presenter of All in the Mind & Mind Changers on BBC Radio 4 and Health Check on BBC World Service Radio and BBC World News TV. She is a columnist for BBC.com and regularly appears on Impact on BBC World News to discuss research in psychology. Claudia is on the part-time faculty at Boston University's London base where she lectures in health and social psychology. She is an Associate Director of Hubbub - a 22 month residency examining the topic of rest at Wellcome Collection.
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Gary Stevenson
Gary Stevenson left his trading career behind, convinced that solving inequality was the only way to repair the world economy. He has since studied for an MSc at Oxford, worked with economic think tanks, and founded a YouTube channel, GarysEconomics, teaching people about real-world economics. He regularly appears on television and radio and has written for The Guardian and OpenDemocracy, among others.
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Guy P. Harrison
I have a deep passion for science, history, anthropology, and nature. My mission is to inform and inspire as many people as I can about the workings and content of our world and universe. Reality is infinitely beautiful and endlessly fascinating. It's tragic that some people never quite glimpse the wonder of it all. Please don't be one of those people. I want you to be fully alive and awake as a human being.
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Science is a body of knowledge and a practical tool available for everyone everywhere. Professional historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists tell the human story--your story. Listen to them. You live in exciting times because so much remains to be discovered and understood. In a sense, your home is an alien world filled with myste -
Robert S. Feldman
Robert S. Feldman is Dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Feldman, who is winner of the College Distinguished Teacher award, has also taught courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
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A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written more than 100 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. In addition, he is on the Board of Directors of the Feder -
Jennifer Ackerman
Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Genius of Birds, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications. Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her articles and essays have been included in several anthologies, among them Best American Science Writing, The Nature Reader, and Best Nature Writing.
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