The president of the Maldives is urging “a collective spirit of co-operation” at Copenhagen lest the summit becomes nothing more than a “suicide pact”.
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Big Think co-founder Peter Hopkins sat down with bestselling author and urban theorist Richard Florida the other week to talk about the new psyche of the American workforce. Florida sees […]
Computer viruses which “attack your dignity” have been rampaging through social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, sending embarrassing messages to friends and co-workers.
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Why use boring old bread to make your sandwich, when instead you can plop your bacon, cheese and sauce between two slices of deep-fried meat? It sounds like a sitcom […]
Paleontologist Peter Ward, professor of biology at the University of Washington and an expert on mass extinction events, stopped by Big Think today to discuss nothing less than the fate […]
For this week’s installment of What Went Wrong? we bring you an interview with the Nobel Prize winning economist, Vernon Smith. Having studied bubbles inside and out, he has said […]
A new human sex hormone that has been found in men could lead to the development of the male birth control pill, researchers have said.
President Obama’s new plan to stop big banks from taking big risks could be circumvented in dangerous ways having perverse effects on risk-taking says Bloomberg.com.
A group of influential clerics in Yemen are threatening to declare jihad, or “holy war”, if foreign troops are drafted into the region to battle the spread of Al-Qaeda.
This week’s installment of What Went Wrong includes an interview with the former head council for AIG, Ernest Patrikis. He weighs in on what could have happened if the Fed […]
On Slate’s XX Factor blog, Hanna Rosin argues that “Jihad Jane” (aka Colleen LaRose) is a feminist because she’s part of a cohort of female terrorist wannabes who have been […]
The last of Etna Week here on Eruptions has guest blogger Boris Behncke talking about the volcanic hazards posed by Mt. Etna.
A major upsurge in violence in Africa’s Sudan is threatening the country’s 2005 peace agreement according to a coalition of aid agencies in the south of the region.
The G-Spot, a theoretical female erogenous zone, has been dismissed as “subjective” by scientists in London who carried out tests on identical twins between the ages to 23 and 83.
Three bomb-rigged cars exploded in the Iraq capital Baghdad this morning killing over 60 and wounding more than 100 in what is suspected to have been a co-ordinated attack.
A cure may have been found for a defective alcohol metabolism enzyme that affects and estimated 1 billion people worldwide, according to research by the NIAAA.
Yemen insisted yesterday that it could handle its own security challenges without direct intervention from foreign powers “pointedly warning” the US to keep its troops out.
Hopes of an early economic recovery on Main Street were dashed after 85,000 jobs were reportedly lost during December.
Why does sustainable transit seem like such a far-off dream? Ostensibly obstructed by years of costly R&D, unprecedented political and technological breakthrough, and often some sort of sci-fi revolution, the […]
There is an irony, although it is hardly surprising, that a very English Revolutionary and devout Parliamentarian, John Hampden, and the family name of “Hampden,” is better remembered in the […]
For this week’s installment of What Went Wrong?, we bring you the media perspective from Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times columnist and author of “Too Big To Fail,” and […]
Ron Bluntschli, an American who works with Haitian farmers through the organization Beyond Borders, told me this story years ago: “When I lived in the country there was a family […]
Who are these people in the media who tell us what is important — who decide what the narrative is for the rest of our national tribe? Do they really […]
Recent discoveries about how the brain stores memories may aid the development of drugs to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Scientists believe that the “hunger gene” which tells the brain when the body needs food can act when we’re already full.
The New York Times is accused of beating the drums of war by printing an editorial advocating a military strike against Iran.
A group created by the DNC is recommending the removal of superdelegates to better reflect the popular vote in presidential races.
A Chinese academic who helped write a document advocating political liberalization has been sentenced to 11 years in jail.
Today at 2:00 EST, Big Think’s President and Co-Founder Peter Hopkins will host a live interview with the prominent author and economist Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the […]