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Design
Lomography: Analog Art in a Digital World
An interview with Lomographic Society North America CEO Ulli Barta. Last month, the iconic Lomography movement opened an ambitious retail space...
I Get Fat with a Little Help from My Friends
James Fowler explains how smoking, obesity, and happiness can be contagious. In their pioneering research, James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis...
A Heartwarming Work of Edifying Genius
Valentino Deng, the central figure in Dave Eggers's What Is the What, is turning the dream of education into a reality for Sudanese...
Stop Feeding Your Garbage Can
Talking to the chef of America's least wasteful restaurant Of the 350 billion pounds of food produced in America each year, we throw away a...
When the Streets Have No Names
Talking to the director John Hillcoat on his staggering new film, The Road. Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel, The Road, depicts an unnamed...
Culture
Oren Moverman Shot The Messenger
A conversation with the director of a powerful new film about notifying families of our war dead. The Messenger tells the tale of a young...
Action, In Words and Pictures
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change. With his new book Actions Speak Loudest,...
The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout...
Technology
Digital World Explorer
The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human...
Issue 017
AYM ’09: Moldova's “Twitter Revolution”
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Natalia Morari. On the 6th of April of this year, 15,000 Moldovans rallied in the...
Philanthrocapital Gains
The Economist's Matthew Bishop weighs in on Bill Clinton, Dambisa Moyo, microfinance, and the state of philanthropy. The first edition of...
AYM ’09: A STAND Against Genocide
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Daniel Teweles. STAND, the student-led arm of the Genocide Intervention Network, began in...
Three Years of Silent Retreat
A conversation with one of the West's only female lamas, Christie McNally. In late 2010, in the sun scorched highlands of Arizona's Chirakawa...
News
AYM ’09: Fighting the FARC with Facebook
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Oscar Morales. From Obama's campaign fundraising to the election protests in Iran, we've...
AYM ’09: Getting Cuba Connected
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Roots of Hope. From Obama's campaign fundraising to the election protests in Iran,...
Design
A Design Book For the Rest of Us
In his new book, Glimmer, journalist Warren Berger tries to explain to the uninitiated what designers have been saying for years: that good...
Heads of the Class
An edifying conversation with the founders of KIPP Schools. It's mid-October, which means that all across the country, kids are back in school....
A Portrait of Advertising by a Young Man
Doug Pray's new documentary, Art and Copy, chronicles the evolution of creative advertising by exploring connections between great art and great...
