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...making all those television appearances and writing all those op-eds makes being a public intellectual a time-consuming affair. When FM contacted James D. Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA, about an interview for this story, his assistant replied that he was all booked up until 2004. “With the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA fast approaching, Dr. Watson is swamped in production of a five-part TV series, three new books, and numerous appearances,” wrote Watson’s assistant, Jeff Picarello...
Some professors say they won’t let student contact be the factor in the equation that is diminished to make room for time for being a public intellectual. MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker, whom FM tracked down on the West Coast in the midst of a six-week tour to promote his new book, The Blank Slate, says he makes a point of answering students’ e-mails on the same day that he receives them. But still, as Pinker admits, in order to be an effective public intellectual, “something?...
...share this story with all the other celebrity-dazzled, Oscar-watching, magazine-reading moviegoers out there. You know you are one if a) you agree that imdb.com is one of the best procrastinatory tools out there or b) you do not think that this column belongs in FM...
Erica Waddell is known at Harvard for her imaginative costume designs, which were featured in several student theater productions and profiled in a Feb. 2000 issue of Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson’s weekend magazine...
Known for her creativity and her intense work ethic, she once said she had ambitions to be known as the “Goddess of Design” and cited Mary Quant and Mondrian as her primary sources of inspiration, according to the FM article...