The Obama administration has announced a plan to join forces with private equity firms and hedge funds to forge public-private partnerships to reverse the housing and credit crisis. This comes […]
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Love it or hate it, broadcasting the minutiae of one’s life on Twitter has become the serial writing skill du jour. But, as the LA Times blogs, the medium is […]
George Tech’s expertise in “human-factors issues” is really paying off for the law enforcement establishment. Engineers are helping an Atlanta start-up build cop cars that function like jet fighters. According […]
A team of hyper-geniuses at MIT’s Media Lab has designed a cellphone type device that gathers data on the environment around you, searches for information using the Internet, aggregates the […]
Are you ‘reading’ this oped on paper,
or are you ‘screening’ it online?
Explaining some of my personal artistic ideas and processes
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
The Cato Institute today explores the problem of “invisible” trade barriers. “Although they are part of a large and growing segment of world trade — and a prominent feature in […]
Even before a U.S. communications satellite and a long-defunct Russian orbiter ran into each other last week and created millions of smaller pieces of debris, the space around Earth was […]
This essay describes a model for urban development that takes into account and makes use of the externalities that exist in the built environment. Buildings and the people that inhabitat them makes neighborhoods and vice versa the value of a building is in its locations. How can better frame this relationship between an object and its environment? How can develop strategies for a integral area development that learn from the best global examples?
Lance Armstrong and doping. Marion Jones and steroids. Tanya Harding and a lead pipe. Scandal seems to inevitably follow on the heels of—or, in some cases, preclude—gold medals. So it […]
Another day, another mainstream media piece that misses the mark on Facebook. I have an idea for my fellow print journalists. Since owners are now secretly colluding to contrive ways […]
A morally-informed citizenry starts in the schools, Tom Bloch believes.
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Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
The basketball and hip-hop culture term “dunkadelic” was created in 1997. Should the hoops and hip-hop inspired term be applied to the American English dictionary?
Rachel Resnick says it is important to be respectful of a child’s maturity level when informing her about sex.
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Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values.
It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.
Tommy Thompson sees bipartisan cooperation on information technology and chronic disease starting in January 2009.
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What happens when you type your name into Google? How about when you click the ‘images’, ‘news’ and ‘blogs’ buttons? If you don’t know the answer, it may be time […]
Do Not Wake up The Red Dragon, communist CHINA.
Understanding that the world is incoherent informs Annette Gordon-Reed’s work.
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Dr. Oz hopes that increased access to online information will transform our understanding of healthcare.
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Matthew Nisbet must first garner attention, then deliver useful information.
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Pharmaceuticals know that trust comes with transparency and accessibility to information, says Matthew Nisbet.
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America is limited by the way information is presented, Amy Goodman says.
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Toobin’s goal is to give an historically informed look at McCain’s speech.
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Lucas Conley informs us on billboards that can read your face.
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Find a few trusted sources of uncontaminated information, Lucas Conley advises.
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