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If the hunt for the God Particle really is over, what does that mean for physics and, more importantly, for you?

Thank you to all for the comments over on the “state of the blog” post – keep those comments coming. I thought I’d send you off for the weekend with […]

Across the Internet the use of “Dear” is going the way of sealing wax; email has come to be viewed as informal even when used as formal communication.

Miguel challenged us to find new voices. Over the past week and a half I have been profiling new bloggers that I’ve found informative and intriguing. Today I conclude this […]

Family caregiving is a privatejob of love and work. Recently it has been getting public agenda status from anunexpected industry – financial services. While caregiving is a well studiedtopic among […]

Happy Valentine’s Day!Cards, candy and…connecting online? Older adults are among the fastest growing age group meeting and matching digitally.Worldwide more older adults are finding love online. Match.com reports that 22%of its […]

Joined by MIT AgeLab‘s Katie Godfrey, Ihad the pleasure of being on NBC ‘s Today Show this week. NBC’s Peter Alexander visited the AgeLab to take a new look at old […]

Head on over to Leading From the Heart and leave Tracy Rosen a comment on her thought-provoking post about revisiting digital literacy. Here’s the comment I just left her: n […]

This is the final day of my thread on the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators. Today I’ll address issues related to thought leadership, advocacy, and potentially replacing part […]

This is Day 4 of my thread on the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators. Today I’ll address issues related to branding and creating “customer evangelists.” Previous posts covered […]

Breaking the analog world into zeros and ones results in some loss of information, but it allows for an infinite number of exact replications.

When the brain juggles two—or more—languages, there are positive consequences for the brain, says Ellen Bialystok, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto.

At the upcoming Cebit technology event in Germany, Russia is officially advertising itself as the “Innovation Nation.” It’s basically an attempt by Russian government officials to highlight the nation’s wealth […]

This post is mostly to show some of the great images that the Daily Mail posted about field work performed inside a crater at Thrihnukagigur* in Iceland – literally, the team […]

A new study from the University of California has found that younger Internet users become more socially engaged in the real world, not just online, thanks to their use of social media.

With Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc, we have all become “life bloggers,” and innovative startup Memolane is the first to compile all these data points into searchable electronic memory.

Next month, a dozen California school administrators will travel to Thailand for an international professional leadership program.  Why don’t you join us?  We will give you an inside look at […]

With the emergence of new tools that can measure a person’s biological state, computer interfaces are starting to take users’ feelings into account, helping the user to focus.

Here are two cutting-edge solutions for how we can leverage social media in times of crisis. 

The fact that many sun sign horoscopes are based on badly outdated information is troubling to many people, but what may be even more disturbing is astrology’s close similarity to racism.

One of the most compelling arguments for getting an iPhone rather than any other smart phone was always the size and robustness of the Apple app store. In just the […]

I have to admit I’ve been warming up a bit to the out-there techno-optimism of Ray Kurzweil displayed so prominently on BIG THINK.  He (like lots of people) has been […]

Depression is a major public health problem. Policymakers, treatment providers, and patients need unbiased research and responsible dissemination of information by the press.

It turns out that there are small clusters of innovation being created all over the world, in some places you might least expect.

Jason Silva, media personality, Singularity enthusiast and Fellow at the Hybrid Reality Institute, recently interview Barry Ptolemy who directed the documentary Transcendent Man. Check out this fun and informal interview […]

I’ve been asked whether I should reconsider my recent praise of AMERICAN IDOL as an admirably and characteristically American mixture of wisdom and consent.  Although I can’t really speak as […]

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 […]

Few people can imagine their own old age – old age is always something that happens to parents, relatives and friends met at 30th reunions. Putting denial aside, with any […]

Sun, sea and sand – for many these are the ingredients ofthe ideal retirement destination. But does a leisurely walk on the beach or fairwaycontribute to healthy aging? While these […]

Today, Big Think launches StandOut, a video-driven career curriculum for university-educated job-seekers. StandOut video segments feature actionable career insights from today’s most influential leaders and experts, as they share their knowledge on topics ranging from résumés to risk-taking.