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Katie Hires

Katie Hires

Katie Hires is a book lover, pop culture nerd, and graphic designer. When she's not researching Game of Thrones fan theories, she's either reading or at home making pasta.

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TED Talks: Oscar Schwartz’s Computer Can Write Poetry

It seems like a silly question: Can a computer write poetry? But then, after writing a poem, will that computer then take over the world? Oscar Schwartz is less concerned with the speculative danger surrounding artificial intelligence – instead, he’s using algorithms to help us figure out what it means to…
Katie Hires
March 1, 2016
Nonfiction

TED Talks: Bryan Stevenson on Identity and Injustice

    Black History Month ends in just a few days, so this week’s installment of TED Talks Tuesday is one of the most elegant examinations of race in America ever given on the TED stage. Human Rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s moving talk from TED 2012 paints a hard picture…
Katie Hires
February 23, 2016
Fiction

5 Books to Get You Hyped for the Return of The X-Files

The truth is still out there, The X-Files fans! If you’ve been living under a rock since 1993, it’s a show about FBI agents who investigate unexplainable occurrences like supernatural murders, spooky mutant monsters and alien abductions. It’s one of the longest-running science fiction series in TV history, and features…
Katie Hires
January 22, 2016
Nonfiction

TED Talks: Why Raghava KK Has a 200-Year Plan

  What is the single most important force defining your identity? For artist Raghava KK, it’s your creative legacy. In this engaging and insightful talk, from TEDxSummit 2012, Raghava describes the 200-year plans he and his wife design in order to put their unique stamp on the digital legacies they…
Katie Hires
January 19, 2016
Nonfiction

Remembering Alan Rickman in His Best Literary Film Roles

It’s been a rough week for art and culture. Alan Rickman, beloved veteran of the stage and screen, passed away early January 14, 2016, just days after the similarly shocking passing of rock god David Bowie. Rickman, whose trademark sonorous voice was scientifically proven to be one of the most…
Katie Hires
January 14, 2016
Nonfiction

TED Talk: Do Soul Mates Hold the Key to Human Happiness?

What makes people happy? We have been searching for answers to this age-old question for millennia. In his talk at TEDxBeaconStreet from November 2015, Dr. Robert Waldinger details the findings of a 75-year Harvard study tracking the lives of two disparate groups of men and their levels of happiness. The…
Katie Hires
January 12, 2016
Fiction

QUIZ! Which Rankin/Bass Holiday Special Character Are You?

Is anything more exciting than when networks start playing all of the Rankin/Bass holiday specials? There's nothing better than watching our favorite stories with our favorite claymation characters. Ever wonder which character you'd be if you jumped into a Rankin/Bass movie? Take this quiz and find out which one is…
Katie Hires
December 12, 2015
Nonfiction

TED Talks: Ann Morgan on Reading the World in Just One Year

In 2011, Ann Morgan, who considered herself a “relatively cultured person,” realized that virtually every book on her bookshelf was written by either an English or North American author. In her TED Talk at this year’s TED Global in London this past September, she discusses her journey throughout 2012 –…
Katie Hires
December 1, 2015
Nonfiction

Cook Like Nonna with Lidia Bastianich’s Latest Cookbook

Let’s face it—nobody can cook like Nonna. If you have ever attempted to dazzle family and friends by recreating authentic Italian recipes and you don't have an Italian grandmother handy, you need to go to the source. It doesn’t get more authentic than Lidia Bastianich, the Emmy-winning host of WGBH’s…
Katie Hires
November 11, 2015

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