The plural of Texas? My money’s on Texases, even though that sounds almost as wrong as Texae, Texi or whatever alternative you might try to think up. Texas is defiantly […]
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–Guest post by Sarah Merritt, American University doctoral student. News attention to climate change appears to follow a narrative cycle, where according to communication researchers Katherine McComas and James Shanahan […]
Is the frequently drawn distinction between online bookstores (efficient, convenient, innovative) and traditional bookstores (old-fashioned, communal, curated) a false one? This fall, Molly Gaudry and her fellow staff at The […]
I just pictured Dr. No standing before his fleet of snap-together drone planes cackling about how James Bond will never stop his unmanned aerial assault on Washington D. C.
The typical American kindergarten now resembles a really bad first-grade classroom. Even preschool teachers are told to sacrifice opportunities for imaginative play in favor of drilling young children until they master a defined set of skills.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have created materials that can repair themselves if they crack by pumping healing fluids around the material like the circulation of animal’s blood.
Since March of this year, a series of extraordinary paper sculptures has appeared in various locations around Edinburgh, Scotland. Each location is a library or other institution devoted to the […]
In this imagined, alternative State of the Union address, playwright and political blogger Eric Sanders proposes sweeping structural changes, including a “people’s congress” with veto power.
Public opinion about climate change, observes the New York Times’ Andrew Revkin, can be compared to “waves in a shallow pan,” easily tipped with “a lot of sloshing but not […]
So the New York Times has a predictably pointless or just randomly condescending article on America’s leading diner. The long and diverse thread is a lot more interesting than the article. […]
My latest article has been posted on AlterNet, Conservatives Want America to be a “Christian Nation” — Here’s What That Would Actually Look Like. In it, I analyze the “Christian […]
The retired four-star general overhauled communications for troops in Afghanistan. Today, he’s a speaker who thinks business has a lot to learn from military management styles.
Initially inspired by the special effects of Jurassic Park, Ramesh Raskar has invented revolutionary electronic devices and now aims to create entirely new disciplines of research.
They might not know it yet, but some of the most educated workers in the nation are engaged in a fierce battle with machines. Doctors and lawyers beware. Here come the robots.
So you want to live forever? Double-check your motives, says ethicist Paul Root Wolpe.
–Guest post by American University graduate student Laila Yette. Through the use of sites like Facebook and Twitter, President Obama’s 2008 campaign changed the way that we view social media […]
Do holiday sales make your palms sweat with anticipation? That’s because they’re designed to. “There’s a very, very deep art and science to pricing,” says Lee Eisenberg, author of Shoptimism. Watch as he explains the tricks of the trade and how you can avoid them.
Of 271 people exonerated by D.N.A. evidence since 1992, around a quarter of people had confessed or pleaded guilty to the offences of which they were accused.
So, we’ve had a couple of days to settle in and kick the tires, and my move to Big Think is now complete. As I said I’d do earlier, www.daylightatheism.org […]
Admit it: You read Harry Potter. And even if you didn’t, you’ve been unable to escape the billboards, backpacks, and advertising the mega-grossing films have spawned. Maybe, under cover of […]
How a riddle involving one river, two islands and seven bridges prompted a mathematician to lay the foundation for graph theory
Readers in the Washington, DC area are invited to join us at American University this Fall semester for a seminar series sponsored by the Doctoral program in Communication. The seminars […]
This was originally posted at www.pamelahaag.com One of the more important facets of our post-romantic age is that for perhaps the first time in history, you stand a good chance […]
On September 18, Jane Goodall will be hosting a town meeting on international peace at American University in Washington, D.C. Details are below from a web story at the School […]
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry told a little kid that if he were a superhero, he’d be Superman, a great American. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine thinks that’s a great idea. […]
The fascinating billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel (a Facebook guy, the PayPal guy etc.) seems to be carrying the day against the educational establishment in answering this question negatively. He’s teamed up […]
The past few weeks have seen two developments that show that we’re on the verge of home 3-D printing really breaking out into the mainstream, says Forbes’ Alex Knapp.
Wine maps are appreciated mainly by the select few who are both cartophiles and oenophiles. Those who are either or neither face a formidable obstacle to cartographic enjoyment, inherent in […]
Coming from an upper middle class family, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita says, he could have afforded to pay some college tuition. Instead, he was the beneficiary of the tax dollars of less well-off New Yorkers. He argues that “tuition discrimination” makes private universities a fairer option.
Yesterday, Grockit announced a $7 million USD Series D funding round which is in itself already newsworthy. Even more interesting to me though was the launch of a new feature […]