“Every joke,” George Orwell wrote, “is a tiny revolution.” That’s because what makes something funny is that it upsets the established order. The more subversive the joke—the more it says […]
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Lenni Benson, a nationally recognized expert on immigration and a professor at NYU Law School, is confused about why, given the ascendancy of free market theories promoting the seamless flow […]
It was 13 years ago this week that rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas, eventually being pronounced dead days later. In the years since, the iconic […]
Yesterday, while Americans were enjoying Labor Day on their myriad lawns and porches, we Europeans were (relatively) hard at work. The European Commission sat down yesterday to review Google Book’s […]
As we speak, NASA’s Kepler Mission is trailing the Earth in an orbit around the sun, spying into deep space and trying to find new planets in the “Goldilocks Zone”—just […]
Wall Street has a new gimmick. Buy a life insurance policy below face value and hope the policy holder dies sooner rather than later. “The sooner the policy holder dies, the bigger the return,” says The New York Times. Will that sentenced be prominently placed in the promotional material? I doubt it.
I am sitting in Abu George, a hideout in the old souk of Damascus. It is perhaps the world’s smallest bar. The joint’s avuncular namesake stands behind the small bar, […]
the need to have a good evaluation of what’s left and to invest seriously in nanotech for energy , recycling , creation of synthetic ressources.
From this point forward,the only way to pass a health-care bill is through budget reconciliation.
As social beings, we produce the replicator which allows religious longevity.
“We need more nurses and more burn wards
Fewer actors collecting dumb awards.”
Research on tech to harvest unlimited sources of energy.
Each day the Internet feels like a newly published set of encyclopedias. So much new content, only about 16 waking hours to take it in, and really it’s only a […]
Every week another study comes out documenting the tragic ecological consequences of an invasive species entering a new area and dominating the unsuspecting and unprepared native species. The history books, […]
Glenn Beck went off on Van Jones again on his show the other night, raising the question of whether Obama’s green jobs adviser was thoroughly vetted by the administration. “I […]
Over the past two years, it’s become an all-too-common refrain. I just got laid off, now what? Considering the state of the U.S. job market and current levels of unemployment […]
Next Tuesday, September 8th, to mark the start of the school year, President Obama will make a speech about the importance of taking responsibility for one’s education and setting goals […]
We at Big Think have rarely interviewed someone more sanguine than legendary graphic artist Milton Glaser. Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise: ever since a small promotional assignment for the […]
I met with world famous business guru Jim Collins in his Boulder lab last month for a Big Think interview. The best-selling author of “Good to Great” and most recently […]
Already recognized as an award-winning visionary director and constant collaborator with Johnny Depp (the pair have made seven films together), little has been made of Tim Burton: the artiste. Sure, […]
Less than a year after their decisive electoral victory, it is starting to look like the Democrats may lose substantial ground in the 2010 midterm elections. According to a Pew […]
Why Restorative Justice should be the core idea of a new political rhetoric?
Together we will shift, heal and transform the matrix of the monetary system.
What is the current applicable International Law when an armed conflict finishes?
The Columbia Journalism Review recently noted that while the number of newspaper jobs is decreasing steadily, enrollment in graduate schools of journalism is climbing. It seems more people want to […]
We’re constantly being told by magazines such as US News and World Report that there is a “College Crisis” and “Costs and Dropout Rates Keep Rising.” There is an easy solution.
Europe’s obsession with tradition has made its venture into the Internet age a relatively slow one. BigThink recently posted about Italy’s troubles with censorship, blogging and the government’s tight grip […]
You many have seen the story a couple weeks ago that indicated most of us handle cocaine a lot more than we’re aware—thanks to the drug trade and users using […]