What the "Ghost Dance" of the Native Americans and the French Painters Who Led the Cubist Movement Have in Common

Kurt Vonnegut

06 Oct 2024 — 10 min read

Editor's note: Kurt Vonnegut delivered the following speech at the University of Chicago in 1994. I discovered it in a lovely collection of his speeches and commencement addresses. The collection is titled: If This Isn't Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By.
— Evan Nesterak

Techno-Visions Interviewee Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Recording: A Techno-Visions Conversation with Simon Johnson

I am excited to share the third and final conversation in the Techno-Visions series. I spoke with MIT economist Simon Johnson about his new book, Power and Progress, co-authored with fellow MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. A Techno-Visions Conversation with Simon Johnson0:00/3127.9681×

Techno-Visions: The Bell Lap

Despite being October, our Summer Book Club is still running. Travel to Colombia and Kenya over the past three weeks delayed the final lap of Techno-Visions. (The travel is part of our initiative to expand the routes of behavioral science knowledge around the world). I am writing with an update