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The Internet Pioneer generation loves advertising. They want advertising to be content. 

One of my favorite BIG THINKERS, Dave Berreby, criticizes our Declaration of Independence.  Here’s the Declaration’s theory:  We have the right to life, and we have the right to the […]

As with the anecdotally rich discoveries in Freakonomics, practitioners of predictive analytics constantly stumble upon insightful gems such as,vegetarians miss fewer flights.

Will a wonderful pristine planet like Earth appear to be inhabited?

OK, so the NSA is spying on you. Is Orwell’s nightmare coming true?

The efficient market model states all security prices today reflect all available information and only new information is going to change the price.  

People spend a lot of time trying to think about how to connect abstract concepts to real life.  3D printers open up a whole new possibility.  

Melville’s sentence exposes the fiction between employers and employees that employees have any choice in the matter. 

For the uninitiated, we have compiled a short list of Tumblrs that are worth checking out. Please share your recommendations with the Big Think community. 

For God little bangs might be stimulating, and might stimulate God to create other universes. 

Gay lesbian teenagers, LGBT teenagers are lied to about what it is to be a gay or lesbian or bi or trans.

I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

I think that we’re just at the very, very beginning of watching the implications of being ubiquitously connected to everybody on the planet and what you can do with that.  

We’re at the end of an exponential expansion in resource use that began around 1800, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. 

Darwin may not have seen that a seemingly altruistic primate can also be quite disastrously aggressive. 

A new Kickstarter campaign seeks $200,000 to propel a CubeSat into Earth orbit and eventually deep space using a miniature propulsion engine.

You can’t pick your fans. If you could, nobody would pick Adolf Hitler. The frustrated painter turned Führer and genocidist enjoyed any art that embodied in some form for him […]

Fearing for his marriage, a dentist fired an employee he deemed “irresistible.” The Iowa Supreme Court said that’s perfectly fine.

Until the late 20th century, Western approaches to mental well-being focused mainly on treatments directly affecting brain function (via surgery, electric shock or pharmaceuticals, for example) or insight-oriented psychotherapy intended […]

Psychiatry’s bible is also its worst enemy.

There is a tendency in our culture to single out one nutrient or ingredient as a quick fix. 

One of the challenges that students have today, which is not a lot different than what I faced, is the problem of budgets being cut in education.  I grew up […]

Two weeks ago, after turning onto Route 10 from Santa Monica, a truck sped by in the center lane. A hand truck flew from the back as it hit a […]

Going to college in the mid 70s I started to smoke marijuana occasionally and wondered why people were getting arrested.  Why did I have to worry about getting arrested for this sort of thing?

Having the skills, the enthusiasm and the right drive is necessary in order to succeed. But as Bjarke Ingels Group experienced, it takes more than that. Without a good business minded CEO, the company will be closer to bankruptcy than success.  

Follow basic human attributes.  People want to feel respected.  They want to feel part of a community.  They want to have connections. 

Walter Russell Mead, one of the most expert bloggers around, gives the most realistic explanation I’ve seen on how MOOCS—those massive online courses—will affect higher education. They won’t, in fact, […]

Can computers learn the same way a children learns? Yes. We are starting to tap into the power of cognitive computing.

If you make conscious branding a higher purpose and you make it ingrained into your DNA, it’s not going to be a fad.

If we take away the either/or aspect to relationships when it comes to sex, I think we’ll end up with much more stable relationships and happier people, probably.