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"I want to be remembered as a person who early on in his life took control of his life and set goals. When people gave me a lined paper, I wrote the other way. When people expect some certain behavior from me, I will frustrate their expectations." By Sean Fitz-Gerald.

The script writer for games, comics and film remembers her father’s gift for observation and his love of nature.

The scholar of nationalism and author of ‘Imagined Communities’ has died at the age of 79. By Jeet Heer.

“Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk,” an illuminating exhibition at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, traces Muller-Munk’s evolution from craftsman of precious objects to stylist of household appliances. By Martin Filler.

A century ago Albert Einstein changed the way humans saw the universe. His work is still offering new insights today

Brothel keeper dubbed ‘Madam Cyn’ who was jailed after holding sex parties in Streatham [UK] in exchange for ‘luncheon vouchers.’

“Listening to Wolin put one in the presence of the past, a past sheltering the future, a past sheltered in the present, a past yet to be fulfilled.” By Anne Norton.

An intimate portrait of the former ‘Saturday Night Live’ star’s career and life, one year after she was laid to rest. By Mike Thomas.

Max Beauvoir, biochemist and high priest of Haitian voodoo, died on September 12th, aged 79.

A hundred years ago, Randolph Bourne was a hot property—an intellectual wunderkind who was taking the American intellectual scene by storm. Bourne was the complete package: brilliant, charismatic, filled with social energy, and exquisitely attuned to the moment... By Andrew J. Bacevich.

Remembering Robert Conquest's literary life. By John O'Sullivan.

After a leading botanist was killed by the Philippine Army, his work lives on in the science of citizens

Ms. Sanders compiled a stellar résumé as a reporter in the field, including Vietnam, and was an Emmy-winning writer and producer of documentaries. By William Grimes.

When the Andean exotica singer Yma Sumac became famous in the United States for her supposed Inca heritage and five-octave voice, her fellow Peruvians called her a sellout. Ethnomusicologist Zoila Mendoza, however, knew Yma Sumac as her mother’s childhood friend... (2013)

Tama, stationmaster of Kishi station and vice-president of the Wakayama Electric Railway, died on June 22nd, aged 16.

Adam Shatz remembers Ornette Coleman.

Many female scientists in the past were not given credit for their achievements - here are just a few of them.

Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think that math and logic could help me find it?

Mr. Carroll, a widely admired newspaper editor, restored the reputation and credibility of The Los Angeles Times in the early 2000s even as he fought bitterly with the paper’s corporate parent.