We sat down today with one of the leading voices in American health care, George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente. In some critical respects, Halvorson’s perspective may be […]
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The e-reader business is burgeoning. The New York Times reports that sales of e-readers are predicted to increase by 500 percent this year, from one million to over five million. […]
Harriet Mays Powell, fashion director at New York Magazine, found time to stop by the Big Think office in between the aftermath of New York Fashion Week and her flight […]
Earlier this week, CEO of Timberland, Jeff Swartz came by the studio. He spoke about the successful branding of Timberland in the last decade, and how it’s recently gone off […]
With New York City Comptroller William Thompson now officially going head-to-head against Mike Bloomberg in his bid for a third term as Mayor of New York City, a clandestine political […]
Is it possible that the world’s most famous diarist wasn’t keeping a diary at all? According to author and literary critic Francine Prose, Anne Frank’s famous account of life in […]
Leadership in Century 21 …
Bob Herbert gets it right in this morning’s New York Times: “President Obama is in the uncomfortable position of staring reality in the face in Afghanistan. Reality is not blinking.” […]
Author Gay Talese came by Big Think this afternoon and spoke to us about marriage, the subject of his next book. He is writing about his own half-century-long (and still […]
Violent, intimidating, homophobic soccer enthusiasts.Those five words would have struck us as a hilarious oxymoron back in the Illinois of my childhood, where football always meant “macho” and soccer often […]
Frank Bruni’s name is famous in New York culinary circles. But his face was virtually unknown until he resigned in August as the New York Times restaurant critic. After five […]
Rarely do I ever find myself agreeing with a Russian foreign policy official. But a Russian ambassador slammed his American counterpart, Susan Rice, for preaching the need to investigate war […]
Long gone are the days when PLO leader Yasser Arafat showed up wielding a pistol, or Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk. Nowadays the annual United […]
Why It’s OK to Talk About White Prejudice Rather Than Prejudice in General
You Can’t Wipe Out Racism by Pretending You Don’t See Race
Technology is even in the works to make truly mobile diabetes management, with sensors attached to a phone that can measure and transmit biological data such as blood glucose levels
With just 70 days left before December’s critical international climate talks in Copenhagen (COP15), the heat is on to bring the world to an agreement on a plan for emissions […]
1. Authentic Self is achievable through the psychological examination of subconscious paradigms.
2. Perpetuated societal norms are the cause of subconscious paradigms.
3. Psychological examination of an individual does not adress over all causation.
4. Addressing the overall causation is preferable to treating individual cases.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its opinion on Google Book’s proposed settlement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers concerning its massive digitization project which aspires […]
Legendary cartoonist Robert Mankoff just stopped by Big Think to discuss the intricacies and origins of humor. Mankoff, who has created some of the most popular cartoons in the New […]
When Gary Vaynerchuk visited Big Think to talk about wine and the new media revolution, he stressed the facts that there are many podcast niches waiting to filled by enthusiasts […]
Is religious preaching trying to teach us something or trying to convince us of something?
Every head of state is used to a certain level of red-carpet treatment. Even the ones that are internationally reviled because of the treatment of their people. But with a […]
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From the successful story telling of the Bible, did we not learn to flavor garbage to taste like strawberries?
According to the Catholics, God is a homosexual pedophile. According to Muslims, God is a terrorist. According to the Jews, God charges interest. According to the Aethists, God denies his […]
Eyewitness news is an old phenomenon for local television stations: a citizen’s video recording of a gas station robbery, or some such sensational event, becomes free “news” for the station, […]
We may never find out what was onboard the Arctic Sea, the Russian-crewed vessel hijacked by Estonian pirates last month, but my guess is it wasn’t Algeria-bound timber. I’m not […]