Curated playlist
New York University alumni
- Paul Thomas AndersonPaul Thomas Anderson, the American filmmaker known by his initials PTA, earned a C+ on his very first film school assignment. The task at New York University was simple: write a single page of screenplay. Anderson handed in a page from…
- Henry J. KelleyA 1960 flight-path paper by Henry J. Kelley derived the basic mathematics behind backpropagation.
- John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler spent decades calling a dying star a "gravitationally completely collapsed object."
- Margaret QualleyMargaret Qualley got her first screen role because she happened to be standing on a film set. In 2013 she was visiting her then-boyfriend, Nat Wolff, while he worked on Gia Coppola's drama Palo Alto. A small part came her way. She had not…
- EjaeEjae, born Kim Eun-jae and known professionally under a name stylized in all capital letters, co-wrote and co-performed a song that reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. That song, "Golden," from the film KPop Demon Hunters, later…
- Robert MuellerRobert Mueller was the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Senate confirmed him on the 2nd of August 2001, by a vote of 98-0. Not one senator opposed him. That kind of agreement was no accident of timing. Four…
- Charlie RoseCharlie Rose, an American journalist born on the 5th of January 1942, hosted a talk show under his own name for 26 years, from 1991 to 2017. He was its executive producer as well as its host, and the program became known for its stature…
- Jonathan TropperJonathan Tropper built the series Warrior from an original idea left behind by Bruce Lee.
- Erich FrommErich Fromm argued that falling in love is not love at all. His 1956 book The Art of Loving became a bestseller.
- Naomi ZackPhilosopher Naomi Zack argues a government's duty is to plan ahead for disasters.