Hollywood: City of Scandal. For example, Rin-Tin-Tin was apparently robbed of an Oscar in 1929 when the organizers decided they wouldn’t be taken seriously if they gave an award to a dog. I guess you could say that the voting results were… fixed.
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And how, if we manage to harness it on Earth, it could be the most accurate probe in all of scientific history. “We… are what happens when a primordial mixture […]
A recent Annenberg survey reveals what we already know: Americans, by and large, are ignorant of their country’s constitutional framework. The predictable calls for tougher high school civics standards ignore the fact that people don’t have much of a reason to care about the government.
In late 2014, a court in Argentina took up the case of Sandra, a 29-year-old who has been held captive all her life. Born in Germany, taken from her parents […]
Human beings have incredible pattern-recognition abilities, which drive us to make meaningful connections across a vast array of information. Through its free exchange of information and capacity to reach a […]
The more time you and your employees spend answering the same old questions, the less time you have to conduct business. Empower your customers by providing simple avenues by which they can find answers to all the usual queries.
Thanks to advantages in facial recognition technology and natural language analysis, virtual therapists can “understand” humans better than ever before.
The Consumer Electronics Show is over, but the enduring story of how wearables will be a part of everyday life persists. Just a month ago was the Indiegogo campaign to […]
Forget the drones, 4K TVs and virtual reality headsets. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was dominated by devices and services that connect your world.
An international survey of school teachers has found that the vast majority believes in myths about the brain and wrongly adapt their lessons to accommodate these myths.
Google’s wearable technology would provide museum-goers with instantaneous information on paintings, sculptures, and artifacts.
We learned yesterday that Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease when he died. This information has led to much speculation about whether his diagnosis or depression […]
The U.S. Department of Education is now in the business of rating colleges and universities. If these ratings were to attempt to measure learning, would they favor overall knowledge or development and growth?
The Internet of Things is coming—are you ready? As Big Think reported recently in our interview with leading economist Jeremy Rifkin, the Internet of Things will connect everyone and everything […]
Businesses that stand out on Facebook are in a better position to grow and succeed. John Rampton, in a piece over at Forbes, explains how to optimize your business page for Facebook search.
Though hardly a new innovation, online job fairs offer an opportunity to network from your home office. It’s important to remember that you should still put forth the same effort you would during a live meeting.
BriefMe arranges and ranks news headlines in a feed on your smartphone. CEO Max Campion calls the new app “100 percent created for millennials.” Will young people buy in?
“Leaders need to be increasingly discovery driven, meaning they have to be able to adapt their mindset as new information comes in and they have to be very candid and […]
How many does it take to give us our Universe, and what’s left unexplained? “The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the […]
If you haven’t gotten a single call from a prospective employer, it’s possible your résumé is rubbing hiring managers the wrong way.
Allowing employees to work from home saves money and boosts morale. But to guarantee productivity remains high, it’s important to set strong standards, particularly with teleconferencing.
Travelers from around the globe have been adding their local signage to the Sign Post Forest since 1942.
Researchers at the University of Washington have devised a way for battery-free devices to skim a connective link from errant WiFi signals, potentially increasing the reach of the Internet of Things to include just about any thing.
Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo and one of the inventors of CAPTCHA, explains how reCAPTCHA harnesses the abilities of both humans and computers in order to accomplish tasks such as the digitization of old books.
The practice of medicine in America has become an industry, meaning more specialists, more prescriptions, and more new professions in the field.
Many big companies utilize an applicant tracking system (ATS) to organize all the names and résumés submitted to them. Getting the attention of a hiring manager means getting past the ATS.
Dollar A Day enables its subscribers to support a different non-profit organization every day — automatically. Subscribers are charged $30 each month (all tax-deductible) and the money is distributed evenly to a portfolio of non-profits registered in the U.S.
With superhuman speed, strength and precision, how far could the man of steel hit a baseball? “If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s […]
Anxiety is not productive. The communications industry suffers from an existential crisis wrought by technological change. Standards have been upended, and the digital world — a universe of bits and […]
If a scientific theory can never be “100% proven,” how can we know what’s true? “Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed […]