Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Three brave men

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Three men who were willing to risk all for an important cause. How brave will we need to be to transition our schools into the 21st century? Are we willing to go all in?

Photo credits

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Time Magazine

Nelson Mandela – Paying The Bribe

Mahatma Gandhi – MANAS

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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Thinking

How to reclaim meaning in a changing world

What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?

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Health

The next omics? Tracking a lifetime of exposures to better understand disease

Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.

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Starts With A Bang

10 thoughtful insights about the great cosmic unknowns

An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.

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The Present

Potato chips or heroin? The debate on social media and mental health

What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?

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Thinking

The “Triple-A Engine”: How the internet changed porn and how porn changed us

Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.

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