Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Author Listing
Daniel Tammet
British Writer, Essayist and Autistic Savant, wrote "Born on a Blue Day" about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome
Rebecca MacKinnon
American Blogger,Co-founder of Global Voices Online, CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and Tokyo
Kevin Slavin
American Entrepreneur, Provocateur, Algoworld Expert, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab
Mikko Hyppönen, fully Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen
Finish Computer Security Expert and Columnist. Chief Research Officer for F-Secure
Svante Paabo
Swedish Biologist and Anthropologist specializing in Evolutionary Genetics, Co-founder of Paleogenetics
Richard Seymour
American Designer, Partner in Seymourpowell, Awarded D&AD Award for Outstanding Contribution to Design, the FX Lifetime Achievement Award and the Senior Fellowship of the Royal College of Art
Pamela Meyer
American Public Speaker, Founder and CEO of Calibrate, a leading deception detection training company, Author of "Liespotting"
David Damberger
Strategy Consultant for Interntional Institute of Mobile Technologies, Engineer, Social Entrepreneur, Founded Calgary Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, EWB's Director of Southern African Programs, Skill Scholar, Co-Founder of Ethical Ocean, an e-commerce marketplace for the worlds top fair-trade, eco-friendly and sweatshop free products
Nate Garvis
American Businessman, Co-Founder of DoTopia creating lifestyle philanthropy, Vice President of Government Affairs and Senior Public Affairs Officer of Target Corporation
Scott Summit
American Industrial Designer and Additive Fabrication, Founder, Lead Industrial Engineer and Director of Technology at Bespoke Innovations
Ken Goldberg
Nigerian-born American Artist, Writer, Inventor and Researcher in Robotics and Automation, Craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Art Practice, and the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, also taught at USC and MIT Media Lab
Ivan Oransky
American Health Reporter, Medical Doctor turned Reporter, Executive Editor of Reuters Health, Professor of Journalism and Medicine at New York University, Managing Editor of Scientific American
Rodney Mullen, fully John Rodney Mullen
American Professional Skateboarder, Company Owner, Inventor and Public Speaker
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
American New Media Memorialization Artist, Adjunct Professor at N.Y.U., "Art with consequences"
Max Little
British Applied Mathematician, Statistician, Signal Processing and Computational Engineer, MIT Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project Director at A Welcome Trust
John Wilbanks
Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation running the Consent to Research Project
Andy Puddicombe
Newfoundland-born Clinical Mindfulness Consultant, Presenter, Writer, Co-Founder of Headspace, a project that aims to demystify meditation and Former Buddhist Monk
Sue Austin
English Performance Artist, Founder and Artistic Director of Freewheeling, an initiative aiming to further the genre of Disability Arts.
Ronny Edry
Israeli Graphic Designer, Owner of Pushpin Mehina, created online movement for peace in the Middle East
Vasubandhu NULL
Indian Buddhist monk, and along with his half-brother Asanga, one of the main founders of the Indian Yogācāra school, Author of he Abhidharma-kosa ("Treasury of the Higher Teachings")
Jennifer Granholm
Canadian-born American Politician, Educator, Author, and Political Commentator who served as Attorney General of Michigan and Governor of Michigan.
Ahmad Sirhindī , fully Imām Rabbānī Shaykh Ahmad al-Farūqī al-Sirhindī
Indian Islamic Scholar, Hanafi Jurist, and Prominent Member of the Naqshbandī Sufi Order
Padmasambhava, literally "Lotus-Born",aka "Second Buddha", better known as Guru Rinpoche (lit. "Precious Guru") or Lopon Rinpoche NULL
Indian Sage Guru known as transmiter of Buddhism to Tibet, Bhutan and neighboring countries
Ben Sira Proverbs
Wisdom Book of the Bible, The Book of the All-Virtuous Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira, commonly called the Wisdom of Sirach or simply Sirach, and also known as the Book of Ecclesiasticus or Ben Sira
Aitareya Upanishad
Indian Holy Scripture, One of the older, "primary" Upanishads commented upon by acharyas such as Adi Shankara and Madhvacharya
Zbigniew Brzezinski, fully Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
Polish American Political Scientist, Geostrategist, Author and Statesman, Co-founded the Trilateral Commission, Counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson, United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom for American-Chinese Relations
David Grohl, fully David Eric "Dave" Grohl
American Rock Musician, Multi-Instrumentalist, Singer-Songwriter and Producer, known for being drummer in Nirvana and currently in Foo Fighters
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American Horticulturist, Botanist and Co-Founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Steve Ballmer, fully Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer
American Businessman, CEO of Microsoft, Owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
Amber Case
American Cyborg Anthropologist, Co-Founder and CEO of Geoloqi, Author, Managing Director of Existence at Healthways, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Time Magazine "30 under 30)
James Altucher
American Hedge Fund Manager, Entrepreneur, Author and Podcaster, Founder/Co-founder of more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr
Lawrence Wright
American Author, Screenwriter, Staff Writer for the New Yorker Magazine, Fellow At The Center For Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, Awarded Pulitzer Prize
Stephen King, fully Stephen Edwin King
American Author of Contemporary Horror, Supernatural Fiction, Suspense, Science Fiction and Fantasy
William "Bill" Bernbach
American Advertising Creative Director, Co-founder of the international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach
Michael Pawlyn
British Architect, Founder of architecture firm Exploration, Author of Biomimicry in Architecture