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Wired editor Frank Rose comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss the changing landscape of media, entertainment and advertising. Post your questions for him here. With over 30 years in […]

“The grand edifice of brand-name consumerism rests on the narcissistic fantasy that everyone else cares about what we buy.” So writes John Tierney in this morning’s Times. If this sounds […]

Biography of Andres Agostini (Andy) at www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com

As the British PM announces his readiness to step down, we look back at the Economist editor’s 2009 account of Brown’s quixotic vision.

In blogospheric guru Adam Singer’s ever expanding quest to help us all become more productive and valuable individuals, he takes on the bane of creatives everywhere: overthinking. It keeps us […]

an article I posted in businessweek about how the notion of the expansive corporation is receding and instead we are seeing the rise of free agents connecting around opportunities. It is in this new dynamic that I find a strong potential for a new economic revival.

Biofuels are the poster children of such good intentions gone terribly awry. Rather than retard global warming, scientists (such as Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Matt Struebig from Queen Mary, University of London, and Emily Fitzherbert from the Zoological Society of London and University of East Anglia) are now warning that they may enhance and accelerate it by encouraging deforestation in the tropics.

The experimental psychologist discusses the quest for understanding what makes us tick.

Race and IQ tests are two nebulous determinants of nebulous qualities that have incited fractious and controversial reactions as long as they have existed. Many studies of the correlation between […]

Explaining some of my personal artistic ideas and processes

In March 2003, I served as a member of the prosecution team that drafted an indictment against the then-President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. The crucial role of the International Criminal […]

Christopher Wheeldon recounts a day in the life of a ballerina.