Here’s the information on our final conference of three funded by the University of Chicago: 2pm THURSDAY will feature a high successful and stunningly philosophical transplant nephrologist (kidney doctor) defending, based […]
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Sophal Ear describes his family’s relocation by the Khmer Rouge from Phnom Penh to a labor camp.
What the world needs now – and just might be able to listen to – are humanitarian ambassadors like Sophal Ear, who have experienced atrocity and devoted their lives to doing something about it.
Long Beach photographers beware, Police Chief Jim McDonnell is a harsh critic: Long Beach (Calif.) Police Chief Jim McDonnell is defending his officer who detained a Long Beach Post contributor […]
It is a busy Friday, so it seems that today would be a great day for a new Mystery Volcano Photo. If we think back to the last MVP, #39, […]
Indian activist Anna Hazare has left jail to embark on a two-week public fast over his demands for stronger anti-corruption laws. The government is stumbling for a response.
Climate change campaigns in the United States that focus on the risks to people in foreign countries or even other regions of the U.S. are likely to inadvertently increase polarization […]
Harvard Law School professor and former Obama administration official, Elizabeth Warren may campaign to become a U.S. Senator, challenging the incumbent Republican Scott Brown.
When longtime Silicon Valley executive Dan Rosensweig stepped down as C.E.O. of Guitar Hero, be began pioneering tomorrow’s digital university by creating online education networks.
A newly declassified State Department document sheds light on why Colin Powell became the first member of any U.S. administration to apply the label ‘genocide’ to an ongoing conflict.
It may be easier for men to to demonstrate authority associated with traditional leadership, but today’s world calls for collaboration and cooperation, skills which suit women better.
The new experimental “brain chips” developed by researchers at IBM and DARPA represent a fundamental breakthrough in computing power. If these brain chips are ever commercialized, they would make possible what are essentially thinking, artificial brains.
BY JASON SILVA Physicist Freeman Dyson has spoken of a new “Age of Wonder” centered on computers and biology. He has artfully articulated that in the near future “a new […]
BY JASON SILVA “We are enraptured prose-beings raised to the highest power”. – Walter Benjamin, On Hashish Timothy Leary and Buckminster Fuller called themselves “performing philosophers”, using the power of […]
I ask the above question at least halfway in earnest, and also as an excuse to write about Mad Men. (The season premiere has been delayed by contract disputes, so […]
You know that I am a huge fan of technology that merges the real world with enhanced information layers like QR codes and Augmented Reality. The third technology worth mentioning […]
In a previous post, Teddy Zareva wrote about a biodegradable urn made by the Spanish designer Martin Azua that turns you into a tree when you die. Big Think readers […]
I can’t lie. Every polysyllabic word like “maximalist” that President Obama uttered on his Ground Force One tour this week grated on my nerves. And yet, despite using the type […]
Former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki says swearing in the business setting is alright “once or twice a year.” But don’t do it more often than that, because “pain in the asses do not advance.”
There are hundreds of intelligent things that computers are doing that are part of our everyday lives that used to require human intelligence.
A new microchip made by researchers at I.B.M. is a landmark. Unlike an ordinary chip, it mimics the functioning of a biological brain, which could open new possibilities in computation.
So here’s some more on THE HELP. My first post dealt with the film’s display of the middle-class racist tyranny, mainly of women, in Jackson, Mississippi in1963. My opinion is […]
Now that my rage over losing the post yesterday afternoon has subsided, it’s time for me to try to recreate it (but that lost post was most definitely the best […]
As the manufacturing industry left American metropolises for the east, our cities became something even greater: idea factories. Cities are the engines of innovation and they are growing.
Yesterday, Republican politician, conservative advocate and definitely not-a-witch Christine O’Donnell “walked out” on an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan. She was there to promote her new book, Troublemaker, when she […]
If glaciologists and engineers can somehow harness flotillas of icebergs at the frozen corners of the Earth, it may signal hope for the throngs of thirsty people around the world.
New and less invasive technologies are helping to harness the power of the tides in Eastport, Maine, next to the Bay of Fundy which has the highest tides in the world.
By changing how light refracts off on object, new cloaking materials can hide tiny microphones placed on a wall—and they will do the job at all visible wavelengths.
The recent controversy in Manila over local artist Mideo Cruz’s Kulo exhibition raises the question of how far an artist can go in terms of religious art in a religious […]