It’s a tragic reality that has gone overlooked in some of the world’s poorest regions. A limited medical infrastructure and lack of education ensuring that many of the world’s children […]
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Bob Duggan: I’m not sure what I think about the idea of scientifically determining the creative process as a brain process. If they succeed, would they arrive at a formula for creativity?
Ron Bluntschli, an American who works with Haitian farmers through the organization Beyond Borders, told me this story years ago: “When I lived in the country there was a family […]
It seems Google is trying to build the world’s biggest digital library. They have digitized 12 million books so far, but want access to many more. The fairness hearing before […]
There is almost always something sexy in her columns. The feminists, and post-feminists, forgive her for that, as every woman seems to read her. Today, the something sexy is San […]
No one writes like this. It’s crazy. No one will ever write like this again. Here are the opening paragraphs of Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; the Zen story […]
Victims of fraudulent mortgages are battling a banking bottleneck to have their payment plans renegotiated.
2009 finally receives some compliments from Ezra Klein at the Washington Post after a thorough panning from most commentators.
Why do people so often fail to live up to their own standards?
James Bain was convicted of kidnapping and rape of a 9 year-old boy in a field back in 1973. The DNA testing of crime scene evidence used to free him […]
Enough time and thought has been spent on the philandering of Tiger Woods, so I don’t want to follow the crowd. From my visual perspective, the most interesting part of […]
Benjamin Sparrow, in his book Uncertain Guardians, cites an industry research report when he states “the people who create the public images of elected officials, those to be elected, and […]
When you live in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration is not just a one day affair. Here we have King Week activities, galas and marches for days. […]
With a college student in art school who was leaning towards photography as a major just a few weeks ago, Learning To See Creatively by Brian Peterson seemed to be […]
So as not to beat the dead horse that is the year-end top-ten list, today I wish to highlight a very short “best of” list: the year’s most distinguished misinformers. […]
Today’s interviews with Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Richard Shelby mark the final installment of What Went Wrong?, Big Think’s series on the financial crisis. Over the past few months, we sat […]
Hair samples from ancient Peruvians contain hormones that indicate they suffered from stress just like we post-moderns do.
There are two different types of narratives about the Haiti tragedy these days — the ones shown each evening on the nightly news programs of the major television networks and […]
Quick Quiz: Who is the only artist to be named “man of the century”? Picasso? Did Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica preach love and peace to define the twentieth century? I […]
It’s not your imagination: information really is bombarding us in greater and greater quantities. As Juan Enriquez explains, the actual statistics are even more outrageous than you’d think.
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The House of Representatives has passed legislation declaring Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album to be a masterpiece.
You’ve gathered up all your quaint eco-wrapping (newspapers and last year’s ribbons), and you’ve put it out with the recycling. You’re getting down to the dregs of the organic eggnog […]
A new study, dubbed the “smiley scale”, has ranked each American state by happiness – revealing that dwellers of the Big Apple were the least, er smiley.
The word “explosive” is use to describe a lot of artists’ work. In the case of Cai Guo-Qiang, he actually earns the adjective. Last month, the Chinese artist inaugurated his […]
The chatter in the media these past few days seems to have borne out a W.E.B. DuBois observation — “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the […]
Jury selection starts this week in the trial of Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the assassination last May of George Tiller, a doctor vilified by pro-lifers for performing late-term […]
There has been some pushback about that Nature paper which claimed there’s a power-law “signal” in the seemingly random events of guerrilla wars against standing armies. They really don’t like […]
Senate Democrats are holding weekend meetings with Obama to eye a public health option that mirrors their own government healthcare package.
I wanted to start the year off on a positive note, but a spin around the blogosphere today has already got my blood pressure up. In particular, I am extremely […]
In a speech in early December, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) repeated the charge that the Republicans have become “the party of No.” Rather than working to improve the […]