It was 13 years ago this week that rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas, eventually being pronounced dead days later. In the years since, the iconic […]
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When someone talks about the effects of climate change, they usually begin with annual rainfall amounts, crop yield, shifting temperature zones (obviously) and other direct effects on humanity’s well-being. But […]
Few of my pet peeves equal my distaste for conspiracy theories, whether it’s that the moon landing was a hoax, that the Bush Administration had a hand in 9/11, or […]
It’s a familiar scene: It’s Tuesday night and you’ve finally settled into your couch to watch television. Your “work” Blackberry vibrates. You check it. It’s an email from your boss […]
In the raging debate over healthcare here in the U.S., there is one point on which everybody, from Newt Gingrich to Barack Obama, seems to agree: We should be spending […]
Fifth wheel vehicles are the vehicles that have different compartments between the driving compartment and the home compartment. Fifth-wheel vehicles comprise of a powered car in the front and a trailer attached at the rear. There is a clear bifurcation of the two compartments and hence can be used by those who want no interference or communication to be made between the driver and the passenger.
Big Think had the chance to sit down this week with Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist of Six Apart, the developers of the influential and pervasive blogging platforms Movable Type and […]
One would think humans would have a notion of preservation lofty enough not to get too bogged down in the semantics of the climate debate, but such is not the […]
the evolutions and revolutions of the human social sytems and system.
It has become fashionable to castigate Twitter – the microblogging service – as an expression of rampant narcissism. Yet, narcissists are verbose and they do not take kindly to limitations imposed on them by third parties.
The EU is taking a lot of criticism mostly from the U.S.A. and England. If the critics would take a closer look at the accomplishments between science, technology and education they might see a different picture. Often their assumptions forget to include, quality of life, in their equation.
Written by: Andrew Harms
The Golden Years are really the Platinum Years for millions of senior citizens because of the marvels of modern technology.
We all have many roles to play in life, and who we are and how we play them defines us.
Written by: Julien Mailland
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In today’s world, we are increasingly becoming more and more connected. It wasn’t that long ago that being connected meant having a pager on your hip or a cell phone […]
Nearly every new technology is hailed (at least by its creators) as one that will “revolutionize” this or that aspect of our lives. Upon closer examination, however, the hype is […]
Everything has become so very complicated these days. Complexity, if the leader is to be truly successful and sustainably successful in increasingly amorphous, re-adaptable, uncharted waters, he must understand complexity multidimensionally.
It’s an old cliché but it fits well all too often, “embrace change.” We’ve all heard this before at the corporate sales conference, just as the HR folks start warming up their pink slip pads for that strategically placed layoff.
More information keeps trickling in on Tuesday’s Washington D.C. Metro accident. With the official death toll now at nine with 80 injured, it all serves as a reminder that no […]
Human hearing picks up only a limited range of frequencies, and that range diminishes as we age and our ears deteriorate—just think of the high-frequency cellphone rings that high school […]
PR expert and blogger Steve Rubel comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss the intersection between the new media technologies and marketing strategies. Post your questions for him here. Steve […]
The model of being an innovative company has been glorified over the past 10 to 15 years, but as the economy gets more conservative, so do businesses and adaptive thinking becomes a more appropriate model. This is not necessarily the best model, as we need to mold teams to fit the problem.
At Monday’s Personal Democracy Forum in Manhattan, I asked David Corn, chief of the Washington Bureau for Mother Jones and a blogger for CQ Politics, for his opinion on a […]
Ryan McGinness says wants to harness the power of brands to communicate his own thoughts and ideas.
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Ryan McGinness says design school taught him to place the burden of understanding and communication on the creator not the viewer.
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Recently, David Brooks highlighted research on the characteristics and abilities of CEO’s – noting that psychological insight and a feel for human relationships are the most important talents in a […]