It is true: Eat, Pray, Love was not for everyone—although it was for many, many people, over five million people—mainly women. Women went so mad for the novel they not […]
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Sabre rattling in the South Atlantic between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands has a feel of déjà vu to it. As a young student, I took to the […]
President Karzai has submitted a new list of prospective cabinet ministers to the Afghan parliament after many of his first choices were rejected but the new list is not immune to criticism.
The New Jersey Senate yesterday rejected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state with a 20/40 vote against the motion striking a serious blow for gay rights advocates.
The other day my Triscuits came with a package of basil seeds glued into the box. According to the instructions, these could be used to start my very own “home […]
What we have of Jerome Salinger’s writings can at best be a mere introduction to his deeply felt literary world. It’s practically criminal that all the quiet readers out there, […]
Why do people resist going to the doctor? A writer recently diagnosed with cancer explores an ingrained reluctance to self preserve.
The second part of Eruptions readers' recollections of the historic May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is considering selling pieces of its art collection to UK national museums after receiving $73 billion in bailout funds.
This fall in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
This spring in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
A new study suggests that 15 per cent of teenagers have received explicitly sexually text messages, dubbed “sext messages”- while 4 per cent have sent sexts.
If her piece on loss and mourning in this week’s New Yorker is evidence, Meghan’s O’Rourke’s next book may be the most powerful reflection on the topic since The Year […]
Why do people so often fail to live up to their own standards?
Who killed Caravaggio? Or what killed Caravaggio? Four hundred years later, who cares? To “celebrate” the 400th anniversary of the demise of the demented genius of the Renaissance, Italy’s National […]
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. […]
A silent home movie showing Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe smoking marijuana has been unearthed and sold to a collector after languishing for 50 years in a granny’s attic.
Thanks giving for President Barack Obama was largely about thanking the armed forces giving their lives in Afghanistan.
It’s been an exciting Wednesday morning here at Big Think. Not only were we pleased to present our Nobel Wisdom series, having interviewed two recent laureates in the past several […]
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 […]
After Martha Coakley called Scott Brown to concede the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s old seat in the Senate, a friend of mine confidently predicted that not only would […]
There is a rough rule of thumb that British political leaders are obliged to contend with, and with mixed feelings. Just as their domestic polls begin to drop, foreigners begin […]
Laws, they say, are like sausages. You don’t really want to see how either is made. The Senate’s vote last night for cloture—a procedural motion limiting the amount of time […]
This fall in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
Online Forums at the Guggenheim billed as ‘innovative’ may be a bad idea in retrospect.
After the Office of the President went eight years without tackling many of our contemporary crises, there’s a lot to be done. It makes you wish Hillary had won and […]
Looking back at immigration in the past, we keep wondering what would´ve happened if our ancestors wouldn´t have been welcomed in their new lands.
One word haunts Seymour Hersh’s new investigative piece about the potentially shaky security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal: “mutiny.” As Hersh writes, “the Taliban overrunning Islamabad is not the only, or […]
Is about the most useless phrase we've ever uttered.
Debate about whether an illegal psychohallucgenic drug could actually be legalized, the advantages and disadvantages.