Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth” and “synergetic.” He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. In 1927, at age 32, in a remarkable response to […]
Born in February of 1950, Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, selling five million […]
Galileo Galilei — a 15th & 16th century astronomer, physicist, philosopher, and mathematician — proved to be a central figure in humanity’s transition from natural philosophy to modern science. His courageous championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime – to say the least, meeting with strong opposition from religious leaders and fellow […]
As far as Gandhi is concerned, no explanation is really necessary. He was simply one of the greatest human Talk-Walkers of all time; willing to give his entire life (and in the end literally giving his entire life) to the causes of Justice & Freedom & Love. May we all do our own small-yet-significant parts […]
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he co-founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was ultimately abolished by Constitutional amendment. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and he […]
Born in January of 1883, Gibran was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer who, at least in the Arab world, is still regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, and he is still celebrated as a literary hero […]
As Hurricane Katrina barreled toward the coast, sixteen year old Jabbar Gibson and a friend decided to hunker down in a motel down the street from his home in the dilapidated Fischer public housing complex. The rain and wind were so fierce that the windows blew out as they huddled inside … The next morning, […]
Born in 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and poet. His body of work includes both epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of styles, as well as several works of prose, including verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticisms; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color; and four novels. […]
Hero is a Chinese film which was directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Li Feng, Zhang Yimou, and Wang Bin. Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the film is based on the story of Jing Ke’s assassination attempt on the King of Qin in 227 BC … Hero was first released in China […]
Born in 1949, Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British-American author, debater, and journalist. Hitchens contributed articles & commentaries to a number of esteemed publications, including New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. He was also the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over thirty […]
Barry Horne was an English animal rights activist who literally gave his life for the cause in 2001 … Horne first came to public attention in 1988, when he tried to rescue Rocky, a bottlenose dolphin who had been kept in a small concrete pool for almost 20 years at Marineland in Lancashire. Horne and […]
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