Volume 11

Jessen was one of the “Mercury 13” — women pilots recruited to go through the astronaut selection process to prove they could indeed get through it.

“He helped make computing much more widespread and more personal.”

Born in Glendale, Calif., Epper’s father was a movie stunt performer. Her mother was a stunt performer. Her brothers and sisters were stunt performers (though one sister dropped out of the biz). So it’s perhaps not a big surprise that she followed her family into the business, and in a big way. She doubled for … Read more

Rutan is best known for setting perhaps the last great achievement in aeronautics.

Starting with a passion when he was 10, Cuscuna created a career like no other.

Probably the longest-serving audio engineer in the history of the film industry: he worked on around 600 films and TV shows!

A life in three acts, with enough luck and adventure to be a major Hollywood movie.

Humans aren’t as good at decisions than they think, and Kahneman figured out why.

His family fled World War II as he was turning 3, but he was still left with a profound impact.