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Perfectionists: Martha Graham—Series 2
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
Perfectionists: Leonardo Da Vinci—Series 2
The quintessential Renaissance man, artist Leonardo da Vinci was curious about everything.
Perfectionists: Al-Khwarizmi—Series 2
Al-Khwarizmi laid the groundwork for the modern world in setting down the rules of algebra
Perfectionists: Simone Weil—Series 2
Simone Weil was a perfectionist of ethics, calling on us to attend to others’ suffering.
Perfectionists: Isambard Kingdom Brunel—Series 2
Isambard Kingdom Brunel wanted all his work to be the best, but it came at a cost.
Exiles: Ovid—Series 2
Ovid was Rome’s funniest, wittiest poet. How was his mind shaped by exile?
Exiles: Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz—Series 2
How did exile enable a self-taught intellectual and proto-feminist to do her best work?
Exiles: Marie Curie—Series 2
Marie Curie had to go into exile to do her work, but she never forgot where she came from.
Exiles: Ishi—Series 2
The mind of Ishi: how one man worked to preserve the knowledge of an entire community.
Exiles: Karl Marx—Series 2
Exploring the mind of Karl Marx, a revolutionary political thinker and philosopher.