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Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

March 14, 2011 by  
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Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs ‘childish’ thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids’ big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups’ willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

Edward Burtynsky: Photographs the landscape of oil

January 11, 2011 by  
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In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine and then beyond to the projected peak-oil end game.