Fellow Big Think blogger Scott McLeod invited me to write a dual post with him on our thoughts about the 2011 K12 Horizon Report today. Although my background is more […]
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With his appointment of Chris Cerf as Commissioner of Education, Chris Christie is rebuilding New Jersey public education using sweeping, data-driven methods that have been tested (and sometimes bitterly contested) in New York City and Washington, DC.
As The Hangover films make abundantly clear, it’s not easy waking up after a night of wild partying. Folk remedies for hangovers abound, but a recently published study offers a cure with a real scientific basis.
With huge budgets and entire departments dedicated to social media, big business has conceived of some very innovative ways to use social media that small business can take advantage of.
On each day of Shakespeare’s birth month, Big Think will examine a different way that studying Shakespeare enriches the various disciplines—from neuroscience to business to psychology and beyond.
This post is a review of The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts by Neal Bascomb. My short recommendation? This book […]
At the frontiers of geology, scientists are developing new, physics-based models that will help us forecast and prepare for devastating earthquakes.
Area 51 has long been a treasure trove for conspiracy theorists. Now a new book delivers some bombshell claims about the world’s most famous and secretive military installation.
Researchers from Queen’s University, Canada, found that mobile use may lower sperm quality and lead to a decrease in fertility because of effects on the brain’s pituitary gland.
If traditional media companies fail to adapt their business models to the realities of today’s open source world, companies like Boxee will be happy to fill the void.
Do you know what your boss does? Researchers have studied how CEOs of big companies spend their time. Is it bad news that longer days correlated with better productivity?
Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is one of the most famous novels ever written about combat, in general and in the American Civil War, where the book is […]
Larry Flynt is a pioneer of pornography, who has seen it all, and he speaks to Big Think (See the exclusive video) about the nature of truth and the burden of proof in our society today.
I spent last night in an Egyptian hospital – don’t ask, not serious – but the time away from my computer and books with only BBC Arabic and al-Arabiya gave […]
A frame device is a catchphrase that instantly conveys a specific meaning and storyline, sparking conversations and trains of thought about why an event might be a problem, who or […]
In his recent essay, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant,” star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his […]
We live in a culture that valorizes over-busyness. In so many workplaces, the hero is the one who is putting in the long hours. Why isn’t the hero the person who can get amazing work done and leave at a reasonable time?
83 year old T. Boone Pickens’ C.V. reads like that of a small-to-medium-sized nation. How does he remain extraordinarily productive past the age when most people retire?
We spend our lives inside buildings, our thoughts shaped by their walls. How do different spaces influence cognition? Is there an ideal kind of architectural structure for different kinds of thinking?
It is late where I’m at, and a lot has happened in Yemen today. Yesterday I tried to give a brief overview of events in Yemen, the why and how […]
Big Think spoke to The New York Times chief theater critic, Ben Brantley, about the present and future state of journalism and online criticism.
“Taxation without representation,” as James Otis said, “is tyranny.” But taxation with representation is just democratic government.
Understanding the human ability to distinguish different odors may open the door to new ways of thinking about how the brain processes information and how we learn.
Looking to past elections to predict the outcome of one soon to come doesn’t usually work that well. Back in October 2008, I looked to eight past elections to try […]
Research in the field of Positive Psychology shows there is a “significant correlation” between healthiness and happiness.
Here’s an exaggerated account of the slide of our professors into the proletariat given by The Nation, our leading journal on the left. Let me repeat what I’ve said before: Good […]
They say that you’re not supposed to apologize for not blogging. Instead, you’re supposed to just start back up again. But I’m usually much more prolific online and have been absent for […]
A positive outcome of global economic meltdown is that corporations are increasingly working together for social change, and many are harnessing social networks to do so.
The burgeoning field of regenerative medicine, or tissue engineering, seeks to harness the body’s own healing powers.
Whereas making business green was once a financial burden, companies today have a unique opportunity to design products that tap into the global urge to reduce carbon emissions.