Ever since the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, Richard Florida has been at the forefront of the national debate about the role of the creative […]
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Tempers ran high at Big Think’s Farsight 2011 conference in San Francisco this week when Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, accused Microsoft’s Bing of using Google data to improve its search results.
Search is no longer the simple act of typing words into a text box. New user interfaces and mobile devices are expanding the web into all aspects of daily life, […]
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Bob Duggan, BIG THINK’s artistic blogger, worries that nobody is thinking about the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. I agree that there’s not enough political reflection about that war. Political […]
I said in my previous post that I had a second big move to announce. Well, it’s now official. Starting in August I will be a faculty member at the […]
Remarkable genetic differences between a brain of an autistic person and a person without autism found by U.C.L.A. researchers have changed the way doctors and researchers think about autism.
Bluto Blutarsky might just have something to teach Corporate America. Just as fat, drunk and stupid is no way to make it through life, big, wealthy and bloated is no […]
My letter to Secretary Spellings in the previous post about online multimedia textbooks is the outcome of a conversation that I had with Jim Hirsch, Associate Superintendent for Technology and […]
On the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death (and possibly his birthday too), Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley wrote this personal reflection for Big Think.
[cross-posted at E-Learning Journeys] Change is a process in a school. Change is neither good nor bad but just is. Rapid change can cause discomfort and upset. No change can […]
There’s a tendency in certain circles to think of creativity and innovation as something that can be artificially created by introducing all kinds of cool-looking toys and doodads into the […]
Solar power, driven by exponentially-increasing nanotechnology, will satisfy the entire world’s energy needs in 16 years.
This week the World Trade Organization meets to revive the Doha Development Round of talks. Economist Daniel Altman explains why little will be gained—and why that isn’t such bad news.
Scientists can’t definitively say why some cells become cancerous, but an even bigger mystery is why some cancer cells spontaneously regress and even disappear on their own.
I spent yesterday with technology integrationists from the various Educational Service Units in Nebraska. In my experience, technology integrationists usually are wonderful people who know a lot about digital societal […]
Social media sites have been credited with helping protesters in Egypt organize and spread news before the government blackout. But is the importance of communications technology to modern revolutions overblown?
I’ve been pushing Google Apps for a while now. I have been pushing colleagues and speaking to groups and faculties and school boards. I have written at length about it […]
I am a big fan of student choice. When students work on projects, I think that they should have as much choice as possible regarding both the topic and the […]
This is an amazing four-minute machinima film showing the 3-D re-creation of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in Second Life. A big hat tip to Mitch Wagner of Information Week […]
It’s clear that green technology strengthens our security and helps the environment, but can it be economically advantageous also? Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles believes so.
GUEST POST BY JASON SILVA Alan Harrington eloquently wrote in The Immortalist that we should all strive to remain, “uncompromising child-voyagers andretain a child’s eye view of what might be”… And isn’t this what we’ve […]
n nOver the (very brief) July 4th holiday, I had a chance to catch up some innovation-related reading. This cover story in the current New York Times Magazine, for example, […]
The notion of corporate R&D is undergoing a radical transformation. Instead of viewing research and development as separate silos of an organization staffed by separate employees, companies are now working […]
I just returned from ASB Unplugged, a 1:1 school laptop conference hosted by the American School of Bombay in Mumbai, India. If you can imagine nearly 300 educators from international […]
Medical science has developed a greater awareness of the link between hormonal changes and cancer. Could this information explain not just why we get the disease, but when?
You think you own the right to your own genetics, but actually someone else owns 20 percent of your genes. How can that be? Biotech companies are snatching up the patent rights.
The question of using genetic enhancement to raise test scores may seem like a bad joke—or science fiction. But U.S. policymakers and families, may need to start asking themselves if they can “win the future” without it.
This week I’d like to award the crimson megaphone to Candace Shively, who blogs over at Think Like a Teacher. I’m a big fan of Candace’s writing style and wish […]
n Pop!Tech 2008 Visualization from Tom Wujec on Vimeo. Over at Mashable, Josh Catone has compiled a great list of the Top 7 Places to Watch Great Minds in Action. […]
BIG THINK’s great little interview with Danny Rubin got me thinking about the relationship between happiness and mortality. His very philosophic film is all about our “rightly understood” theme of the connections […]