Laws, they say, are like sausages. You don’t really want to see how either is made. The Senate’s vote last night for cloture—a procedural motion limiting the amount of time […]
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Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik points out the crucial age during which children’s brains evolve into adult brains, and explains what parents can do to ensure the transition is seamless.
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“Very refreshing! DOW Chemical Pesticide Water! Free samples! Very refreshing!” Volunteers with non-profit Students for Bhopal gathered yesterday at the entrance to New York’s Union Square Whole Foods Market to […]
It’s an absolute fixture in children’s libraries worldwide and upon its publication in 1963 was awarded the Caldecott Medal, a distinguished award given to the year’s best picture book for […]
Illegal pet turtles spike blamed for salmonella outbreak last year.
Yesterday, Big Think went West to Mountain View, CA to sit down with Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of personal genetics company 23andMe, a Google-backed start-up that makes home genetics tests available […]
Since growing up in his parents’ tailoring and dressmaking shop in New Jersey, the writer has maintained a taste for family craftsmanship.
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American Today, the weekly newspaper for American University, ran this feature on last week’s AU Forum and public radio broadcast of “The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in […]
You Can’t Wipe Out Racism by Pretending You Don’t See Race
Next Tuesday, September 8th, to mark the start of the school year, President Obama will make a speech about the importance of taking responsibility for one’s education and setting goals […]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s heroes include his parents, Walt Disney, Vince McMahon, and the Notorious B.I.G.
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Fittingly, it was my wife who pointed me to a great little story in the Washington Post about how some women in India are refusing to get married until the […]
Technology is even in the works to make truly mobile diabetes management, with sensors attached to a phone that can measure and transmit biological data such as blood glucose levels
Gay Talese has long made a habit out of exposing the everyday truths behind a number of America’s cultural institutions. From his research into the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1950s and […]
The current forecast for the H1N1 virus seems quite grim. Referred to originally as “swine flu” last spring, it has already spread to more than 180,000 cases worldwide, and shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has predicted that 30 to 50 percent of the nation’s population could eventually be infected, with up to 90,000 deaths if the virus mutates into a more aggressive version.
Great news, fans of continued existence! The world will not end in 2012, despite what you may have heard from a passing lunatic and/or viral marketer for this film. How […]
Apparently the evidence of design is all around us, I just don’t see it.
One of my parents works in a cardiologist practice, one of my siblings is a nurse and I myself am covered by the Spanish public healthcare system. While ours views […]
I’m bursting with things I want to share here today. But we’ve got a new look and new blog names, so I want to start by explaining what to expect […]
Why It’s OK to Talk About White Prejudice Rather Than Prejudice in General
The human mind is full of contradictory impulses. For instance, I doubt that many of us want the President to do his own laundry. He’s not like us; he has […]
It’s been easily the most prominent source of intrigue and information over the past two years, inspiring bizarre buzz words like “recessionista.” But the world of academia has been furiously […]
Big Think recently talked to Howard Gardner, the esteemed Harvard psychologist and the pioneer of the theory of “multiple intelligences”, about success, intelligence, and education. He saw several challenges facing […]
The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philly’s public library system) shuts down on October 2nd, 2009 due to budget cuts.
Judd Apatow: comic visionary, insightfully raunchy, slacker hero… conservative crusader? Ross Douthat smartly makes the case that Apatow is leading the charge in making socially conservative lifestyles seem cool to […]
Would today’s Major League Baseball bar Lou Gehrig? That’s the argument some are using to oppose a new announcement by the MLB: the league is conducting genetic testing on some […]