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Big Think interviewed an array of luminaries in a variety of fields this week, including “The Office” star Rainn Wilson, famed novelist Salman Rushdie, and writer Walter Mosley. Rushdie came […]
Traumatic brain injury increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease—a problem that could affect thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
OK, I promised a post on video 2.0 over a month ago, bad form on my part not to deliver, I was busy working on my Babson application and a […]
In Big Think’s series “How to Write Great Fiction,” 12 celebrated authors give writing tips. Now see how well you know each writer’s work and style.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat and al-Quds al-Arabi both have stories today on the death sentence handed down to ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Yahya Hamud al-‘Ubadi for his killing of a Jewish citizen in December.This […]
“Politics is like term papers,” says U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. “You usually get serious right before the term paper is due. That’s the downside of democracy: without friction, there is […]
Studying and thinking about groups like al-Qaeda can be an intellectually dangerous undertaking. Like most areas of study, the information one is dealing with is often heavily biased. Additionally, there […]
Age may matter, but it is only one of several factors that are important when you are looking for love.
We don’t know about you, but we’re a little tired of conventional web searches. If you want to search anything (say Egypt), Google obediently proffers a number of sites starting […]
There’s a lot of talk on BIG THINK about evolutionary explanations of this or that human behavior. They’re all pretty fascinating, although far from completely convincing. Darwinian explanations, for what […]
In what is becoming a sad and sick habit lately, I’m desperately trying to meet a deadline and keeping various editors at bay, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have […]
Well, in my recent monastic-like silence I’ve ignored commenting on a number of things going on in Yemen over the past few days. But it is raining outside and a […]
New research indicates that the disease starts in one area and spreads all over the brain. Could these findings inform efforts to develop a vaccine?
Do science journalists have weird psychic powers? You might think so, given the near simultaneity of publications this fall on the touchy theme of studies that don’t really prove what they’re supposed to have proved.
There is a point in every child’s development where he begins to realize that the content of his parents’ minds is different than that in his own, says author Malcolm […]
So how many of you have heard of Piers Morgan? The answer is probably rather a few more than had a week or so ago. Morgan has stepped into the […]
Rates of Alzheimer’s and other age-onset diseases are projected to increase dramatically in the coming years.
Framing is a concept and term that is applied liberally in discussion of climate change politics and communication strategy. Unfortunately, despite widespread use, the concept is frequently misunderstood and misapplied. […]
Saudi Arabia has finally revealed the names of the two individuals killed in the shootout in Jizan. (I am seeing this spelled two different ways in Arabic one with an […]
This thought-provoking cartoon, distributed by the Universal Press Syndicate, is called Unclestiltskin. What happens to America when we deplete all of our natural resources and realize that we’ve squandered away […]
I go out of town for a while only to return having learned two things. First, never, ever go to the driving range in sandals and second, our excessively shy […]
Since I’ve run out of blog ideas—and have New Year’s Eve parties to get to—today I’m just going to post some of the things that people who are more interesting […]
Many people who don’t develop dementia are nonetheless discovered after their deaths to have the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Are women and African-Americans at a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease—as some data suggests—or are there other factors in play?
Listen to this post! Last October I announced a bold new CASTLE initiative. Because of what was clearly a lack of presence by school principals in the blogosphere, we set […]
China’s drive to be the world’s biggest economy will come hand in hand with its increased naval presence around the world.
I’m a big fan of Paul Buchheit, the guy coined “Don’t be evil” and created both Gmail and Friendfeed. Now he’s working at Facebook, cooking up exciting things I’m sure. […]
Twitter’s foray into search (through last year’s acquisition of Summize) has been commented on by every pundit under the sun. Twitter Search is has proved the benefits of real-time search […]