Alan Alda
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Marriage Story: A bitter divorce war with a surprisingly soft heart
- Film
- November 13, 2019, 05:00
Most of Noah Baumbach’s latest film takes place amid awkward tension and polite unease. Charlie (Adam Driver), a theatre director, and Nicole (Scarlet(...)

Empathy the ‘secret sauce’ of doctor-patient relationships
- Health & Family
- April 8, 2019, 06:01
Emmy Award-winning actor Alan Alda is best known for his 11 seasons on MASH as Dr Hawkeye Pierce. No matter how awful the trauma he faced as a US army(...)

SAG Awards 2019: Black Panther wins big. The Favourite flops
- Film
- January 28, 2019, 08:42
The rise and rise of the comic-book aesthetic was confirmed last night when Black Panther, a super-hero epic from Marvel, took the ensemble award from(...)

Talking science: Famelab and 180 seconds of fame
- Science
- January 17, 2019, 06:00
“I want you all to join me in a rally to save the parasites,” says Maureen Williams onstage at the Science Gallery in Dublin’s Trinity College. “The s(...)

Weblog: Intelligent conversation with Alan Alda’s Clear+Vivid podcast
- Technology
- August 9, 2018, 07:15
Actor Alan Alda, best known for playing Hawkeye in the TV series M*A*S*H, recently said in an interview that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease(...)

Could robots go beyond taking our jobs to running our world?
- Technology
- March 9, 2017, 04:44
On January 15th 2015, the Future of Life Institute announced it had received $10 million in funding from world-famous technology entrepreneur Elon Mu(...)

Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk endorse new AI code
- Technology
- February 9, 2017, 06:07
A list of 23 principles related to the ethics, research strategies and long-term issues arising from developing artificial intelligence technologies h(...)

Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘I can conceive of nothing that a writer shouldn’t be able to do’
- Books
- November 4, 2016, 10:00
Early in our meeting Jonathan Safran Foer reminds me that our interview is taking place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day within the Jewish calendar. “It(...)

From barking to Bill Cosby: Hannibal Buress’s never-ending tour on the comedy circuit
- Stage
- October 12, 2015, 06:00
I’m waiting for my call to connect to Hannibal Buress somewhat nervously, as our previous attempt had failed. He slept in, the consequence of a late-n(...)

This time it’s personal: academics try improv
- Education
- March 13, 2014, 01:00
It’s a Thursday morning and 20 academic researchers are in a room, concentrating. There’s nothing unusual about that, but this time they are no(...)