For Adam Goldstein, it was his awful experiences booking flights for
the MIT debate team motivated him to start hipmunk because he figured there had to be a better way to search for flights online.
One group includes adamant nay - sayers like Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton, and another includes Richard Lindzen of
MIT and Steven Koonin, an advocate of the «red
team, blue
team» approach to
debating competing visions of how the world works.