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They are run by the Aurea Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Peter Munk, founder of mining company Barrick Gold, and his wife Melanie Munk. The debate series was founded in 2008 by Munk and Rudyard Griffiths, who moderates most of the debates. The Munk debates are held in Toronto, at steadily larger venues as they have proven popular.
Gladwell's father noted that Malcolm was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy. [13] When Malcolm was 11, his father, a professor of mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo , [ 14 ] allowed his son to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries. [ 15 ]
Revisionist History is a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell produced by Gladwell's company Pushkin Industries. It first aired on June 3, 2016 and (as of December 2024 [update] ) has aired twelve seasons. Gladwell, already a successful author and essayist, was convinced to create a podcast by his friend Jacob Weisberg , then editor-in-chief of The ...
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Talking to Strangers studies miscommunication, interactions and assumptions people make when dealing with those that they don't know. To make his point, Gladwell covers a variety of events and issues, including the arrest and subsequent death of Sandra Bland; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's interactions with Adolf Hitler; the sex abuse scandal of Larry Nassar; the Cuban mole Ana ...
The author revisits his 2000 bestseller "The Tipping Point," to examine the flip side of that earlier book's lessons about studying social change. Among the topics he covers: Cheetah reproduction.
The company was co-founded in 2018 by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, based on an idea by Weisberg. [1] The two worked together on Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History at Panoply Media and after Panoply exited the medium, the two wanted to do more projects together and started Pushkin. [2]
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." [1] The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life.