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...throat wraps around certain words with a silky aggression that he punctuates by cocking an eyebrow or gesturing with his left hand, index finger and thumb closed into an “o” around a stub of chalk. His words are actually improvised. His paper schedule book, full of cross-country speaking engagements...
They are the celebrity professor, the rock star professor, the professor whose book you’ve read before your family lugs your worldly possessions through Johnston Gate. They may lecture in the same auditoriums as other academics, but they inspire a far different scope of admiration. This is what it’s like...
...When I entered university, I had no economic knowledge,” he says by phone at 6:30 a.m. from his native Azerbaijan. “In our nation, books are difficult to understand, [there are] no economic pictures or graphs. When I read a chapter [on the law of supply and demand] in our nation’s book, I am afraid of this and I cannot pass exam. Then I read this chapter in Mankiw. Very easy to understand and this book encouraged me to continue...
...silk. Ferguson never smiles in photos. The camera loves him anyway, particularly his perpetually roguish and brooding gaze; sometimes he’s grabbing his hair as if decoding a historical conundrum. He’s made appearances on the Colbert Report and presented a television series on his book, “War of the World.” Some zealous fan uploaded it to YouTube even though it required them to slice it into 30 parts. Part one out of 30 received over 8,000 hits. Another video of him speaking has a commenter swooning...
...holds three long-distance world sailing records. His book, Racing a Ghost Ship, won the Scientific American Young Readers Book Award. His MIT master’s thesis on the Antarctic Krill Fishery spawned legislation in Congress to build a fisheries research vessel capable of traveling to the Antartic...