Iran’s most senior dissident cleric who accused the government of being a dictatorship died today after 25 years under house arrest.
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The number of executions in the U.S. has dropped for the seventh straight year while more defendants are exonerated by DNA evidence.
The East Coast snow storm has authorities scrambling to free up resources to save Christmas (shopping).
States are unable to investigate fraudulent federal stimulus spending due to layoffs in auditor and legal offices caused by the recession.
Imagine you’re a citizen who cares a whole lot about stopping climate change. When it became clear that a hugely important climate conference would take place in Copenhagen in December […]
Google’s scheme to dominate the world of digital book vending was dealt a legal blow yesterday by a French court who ruled that copyrights of French authors are violated each […]
World leaders left the Copenhagen conference before signing an agreement that would obligate countries to reduce emissions.
Large concessions were made to get the most conservative Democratic Senator on board with healthcare legislation to be unveiled today.
The Department of Homeland Security is studying physical characteristics like strained facial expressions that could betray malintent.
Iranian soldiers took an Iraqi oil well on Thursday night long enough to evacuate Iraqi workers and hoist Iran’s flag inside the well.
Scientists have created synthetic red blood cells that can effectively carry oxygen as well as medicine throughout the body.
A new study indicates that drinking dark liquors like Bourbon is more likely to give you a nasty hangover than clear liquors such as Vodka.
Scientists may have discovered a batch of the mysterious dark matter which makes up 95% of the universe in—Minnesota. Where else?
Some 100 Guantanamo inmates are scheduled to be relocated to an empty prison in the rural town of Thompson, Illinois raising several legal questions.
France has fined Google $14,000 per day until extracts of French books are removed from Google’s online book-digitization project.
Seven more banks have been closed by regulators as mortgage lenders suffer plummeting real-estate prices that will likely cause more banks to close in the future.
There are essentially two ways to make money on Wall Street. The first—let’s call it the old-fashioned way—is to match people who have money with people who can use it […]
This afternoon, Michael Kupperman, the man Conan O’Brien calls “one of the best comedy brains on the planet,” came in for his close-up with Big Think. Despite freezing weather in […]
Much has been made of the soul-affirming, uniting force of sports. The recent Clint Eastwood film, Invictus, paints that portrait around the 1995 World Cup of Rugby, which was hosted […]
James Bain was convicted of kidnapping and rape of a 9 year-old boy in a field back in 1973. The DNA testing of crime scene evidence used to free him […]
Well, not exactly. But Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com, spoke with Big Think about how she admires the pop star for her pluck and blunt sexuality. Much of the interview […]
When News Corporation bought The Wall Street Journal in 2007, coverage was expanded to include arts and entertainment and large color photos were placed on its front pages. While a […]
Some time in the early 1960s, the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot was asked by a university librarian to give his advice about some dusty journals no one consulted—should they be thrown […]
Researchers claim a woman’s attractiveness is not in the eye of the beholder but is instead to do with the “golden ratio” or distance between key facial factors such as nose and mouth.
A fragment of a temple to Isis submerged for centuries but recently hoisted from the Mediterranean sea is believed to date back to the era of Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
Some struggling mortgage-holders are finding themselves having their homes sold from under them without notice by banks, according to McClatchy.
The popular microblogging Web site Twitter was hacked overnight, leaving the millions who use the site tweetless.
Physicists believe they have discovered “a ghostly sea of subatomic particles known as dark matter” at the bottom of an old iron mine in Minnesota.
Scientists have discovered, and caught on film, the deepest undersea erupting volcano at nearly 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean surrounding Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.
Investigators have concluded that Twitter had no role to play in the drowning of a 2-year-old whose mother’s postings prior to his death have been criticised for having “a contributory effect”.