196. Susan Hockfield (MIT president emerita, neuroscientist) – Extraordinary machines
195. Adam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything else
194. Jared Diamond (Historian) – Look inward, Nation
193. Anaïs Mitchell (HADESTOWN creator, songwriter/singer) – sometimes the god speaks through you
192. Delphine Minoui (journalist) – Land of paradoxes: the inner and outer Iran
191. Simon Critchley (philosopher) – the philosophy of tragedy & the tragedy of philosophy
190. Terry Gilliam (filmmaker) - The impossible dream
189. Ross Kauffman (Oscar-winning filmmaker) – Tigers and the humans who love them
188. Frans de Waal (primatologist) – You're such a social animal
187. Aml Ameen (actor) - how the world teaches you who you are
186. Josh Clark (podcaster) - It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
185. Martin Hägglund (philosopher) – What happens to freedom when time is money
184. Mitchell S. Jackson (writer) – Notes from the other America
183. Will Hunt (explorer) – into the Earth: the mysteries and meanings of underground spaces
182. Ha Jin (writer) – the wild and tragic life of China's greatest poet, Li Bai
181. Marlon James (writer) – don’t get too comfortable
180. Benjamin Dreyer (copy chief of Random House) – Really actually truly great English
179. Edith Hall (classicist) – from Aristotle to Oprah and back again: how to live your best life
178. Douglas Rushkoff (freelance intellectual) – It's not the technology's fault
177. Joseph Goldstein (Buddhist teacher) – Lighten Up: mindfulness, enlightenment, and everyday life
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