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Top Right
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A Q&A with Khan Academy Founder Salman Khan
The online entrepreneur on the secret to making educational videos.
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Flipping the Classroom
Watch Salman Khan explain the next big challenge in online education.
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Computers Are Not Humans
David Ferrucci, lead researcher for IBM's Watson project, on designing a machine that can understand human language.
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A Q&A with David Ferrucci
The lead researcher for IBM's Watson project on bringing his supercomputer into the real world.
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Brian Tucker, President of GeoHazards International
Working with local communities to prevent natural disasters from becoming national catastrophes.
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Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy
His folksy lectures are revolutionizing how kids learn math and science.
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David Ferrucci, Lead Researcher for IBM's Watson Project
How do you improve on a computer that beat the world's best Jeopardy! players? Have Watson team up with humanity.
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A Q&A With Cynthia Breazeal
The director of MIT's Personal Robots Group on designing robots that will be useful in our everyday lives.
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Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com
How he's transforming the e-commerce giant into the biggest name in digital media.
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Make Friends With the Robots of Tomorrow
Watch Kismet, Leonardo, and other creations from Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robotics Group.
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Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab
Building robots that understand human emotions and make people healthier.
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The Top Right in Culture
Slate selects five American cultural leaders who are both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.
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Suzanne Collins, Author of the Hunger Games Trilogy
How her dark, bloodthirsty books upended our notions of what young adult fiction should be—and converted waves of skeptical adults in the process.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Creators of the Musical The Book of Mormon
They reinvigorated Broadway: by taking musicals back to their roots (and making them more like South Park).
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Questions for Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey
The founders of Archeophone Records talk about why they started their label and the importance of musical history.
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Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, Archeophone Records
By unearthing lost classics, this husband–and-wife team is helping us rethink the roots of popular music.
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We Didn't Come to Saturday Night Live To Be Cute
An excerpt from Tina Fey's Bossypants.
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Questions for Lauren Dolgen
The creator of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom talks about her inspiration for the series.
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Lauren Dolgen, Creator of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom
She makes entertaining advocacy television that actually works.
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Tina Fey, Comic Genius
The 30 Rock creator solved comedy's alleged "women problem" by fighting chauvinism with funny.
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Managing Gaga Inc.
Troy Carter, Lady Gaga's business manager, describes their entrepreneurial deals.
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The Top Right in Business
Slate selects five American entrepreneurs who are both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.
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Troy Carter on Going Gaga
Lady Gaga's business manager explains how he built the business of Gaga.
