I was reading a 1937 essay in which the author made casual mention of the problem of “morganatic marriage.” I’d never heard this term before. I figured it might be […]
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The same mindset that drives a person to have it all eventually stops them from having what they really want.
The devastation left by Hurricane Sandy has reignited a long-controversial discussion about whether to maintain artificial beaches, especially in light of global climate predictions and diminishing sand reserves.
NASA now has a site, Spot the Station, that lets you register to receive a text alert whenever the craft is passing over your location.
Who will you put your money on — Richard Brandson, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk?
It all started with a review. When a reviewer of a 1957 painting exhibition by Jasper Johns compared one of his paintings to a readymade by Marcel Duchamp, Johns and […]
The president’s decisive 60+% electoral college victory can be contrasted, of course, with his very narrow popular vote margin. Our Constitution has the effect of magnifying his win, giving it […]
The 2012 election is officially over, and it was glorious. Barack Obama and the Democrats have delivered what one of our elder statesmen once referred to as “a thumping” to […]
NowThis News, an iOS app created by two former Huffington Post executives, brings the news to mobile users in segments lasting a minute or less.
Its owner, Google, is putting more of its attention (and cash) towards Web-focused networks that can develop premium content that will hold its users for longer periods of time, thereby allowing them to generate more ad revenue.
“Browsers,” a musical comedy that was originally developed at CBS, isn’t the first series to arrive at the company, but it would be the first to move into actual production.
I will do my level best not to turn this site into a constant stream of book promos and the like in my transparent attempt to sell copies – I’ll […]
Blurb, which until now focused only on books, will allow Adobe InDesign users to create custom-made magazines and brochures through its digital platform starting today.
Technology created by PredictGaze uses a combination of gaze detection and gesture and facial recognition to enable completely touch-free control.
Ali Wyne interviews Graham Allison, the author of Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, a book that swiftly and significantly altered our understanding of how policy decisions are executed.
If you look east from most places in Seattle, you can see majestic Mt. Rainier looming tall and snow covered 80 miles to the west. Mt. Rainier is not […]
Today Foreign Policy published the first excerpt from The Last Refuge. The piece is largely drawn from Chapter 13 of the book, entitled Policy Shift: Here is the opening as […]
Immanuel Kant, the 18th-century metaphysician who remains “the central figure in modern philosophy,” has wrangled up a Twitter account from the ether and this morning tweeted an endorsement in today’s […]
This was indeed a choice election, if you consider the choice between consuming entertainment journalism or data-based journalism. Entertainment is fun, and math is hard. Math won.
When you enter the voting booth on Tuesday and pull a lever or jab a touchscreen for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, you will be registering a vote not only […]
For years, highly-skilled Indians traveled to the States to build businesses, but now the flow is reversing, with young Americans creating a variety of startups on the subcontinent.
Richard Tafel says that failed social movements are the ones that ignore the conservative mindset that is based on results, whereas the liberal mindset is based on rights.
Once reserved for the super-rich, island real estate is becoming more affordable, with some selling for as little as the price of an average used car.
Finnish Lapland, home to mineral deposits that one company called “the find of the century,” is discovering both the benefits and challenges of being a raw materials hotspot.
We must decide what we care more about: facing reality as it is, so we have the best solutions or forcing placation of our outrage and feelings?
Susannah Cahalan was just another ambitious New York kind of girl–a fast-rising cub reporter at the New York Post and fabulous gal about town–when something surprising happened. She lost her […]
The law is supposed to focus on sites considered harmful to children, but critics warn it could be used to block political debate.
Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale has created an expertly delivered whistlestop tour of psychology for the Big Think. The talk outlines the differences between […]
New York City recently became radicalized out of necessity in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Simply put, when systems broke down, New Yorkers improvised, and took matters into their own hands.
By a vote of 131 to 2, the country’s Congress passed a law giving 16- and 17-year-olds the option to participate in elections starting next year.