Interviews

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over 60 books, including the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Why do you write? Like most writers, I write because I feel that I have to. It’s not exactly a compulsion, but it’s quite close to that. Writing makes sense of one’s...

Professor Joachim Luther has spent over 30 years engaging in the physics and the development of renewable energies and is currently working at Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). Q. How has the turmoil in the global solar PV market since SERIS' inauguration in April 2008 impacted the institute and...

Background and Introduction: (A brief introduction, early life, background and current happenings). I was born into a circumstantial privileged wealthy family at a different time where a horse-drawn carriage was the car of today. I had a wonderful childhood with the excellence of quality upbringing by my parents. This nice...

Catherine Quinn, bestselling author of The Thief Taker, tells Writers & Artists what inspires her to write and shares her advice for writers looking to get published. A couple of easy questions to begin with…First off, what inspires you to write?  I always find these kind of questions really hard! Nothing in...

If you study at Vanderbilt, then Professor Buckles needs no introduction. But for those of you who don’t know him, Professor Stephen Buckles teaches economics at Vandy. Without a doubt, he is one of the most interesting and famous professors on campus, and if you are a prospective or...

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a Chinese American computer scientist. He is the former head of AI initiatives at Google and chief scientist at Baidu, founder and CEO of landing.ai, deeplearning.ai and Coursera. He is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University. Andrew Ng thinks that AI is the new electricity....

The economy is in a trough. The first quarter of 2017-2018 saw the growth of gross domestic product (the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year) drop to 5.7% from 7.9% in the corresponding period last year – the lowest rate in...

Luciano Floridi is a Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute. In addition to that, he is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics...

Desk Worldwide sits down with crime novelist Claire McGowan to discuss the importance of dialogue and her path to publication. Claire's writing inspiration I think that I've always written most of my life. I've always been the kind of person that has a lot of ideas. I don't know if everyone...

Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton professor of psychology at Stanford University. She has previously worked at Columbia and Harvard universities, and at the University of Illinois. Her research examines the origins of people’s self-conceptions, their role in motivation and self-regulation, and their impact on achievement....