Looking back at immigration in the past, we keep wondering what would´ve happened if our ancestors wouldn´t have been welcomed in their new lands.
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Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter are the scientists whose names will always be associated with mapping of the human genome — after racing to complete the job, the two […]
Calvin Trillin is one of America’s most versatile authors—from poetry, to humor, to important investigative journalism, his work stirs envy in every type of writer. Trillin sat down with Big […]
Over the past decade, there’s been a wide consensus in the Western world that blackface makeup and other takes on old, racist minstrel iconography is no longer acceptable. In the […]
I’m a professional full-time blogger by choice. I blog with the intention of making money online. I know that there are millions if not billions who have the same intention but most among them do not know where to start from and that is a large audience for me. So I’ll make money on the Internet by teaching these people how to start making money online. I’m confident that the persons who read my blog …..
Last week I wrote that President Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize more as a show of support for the multilateral policy he advocates than for anything he has […]
The breaking news that a car bomb has killed at least 41 people in northwest Pakistan gives renewed currency to the question Vice President Joe Biden poses in the scene […]
With all the focus on the big decisions ahead in Afghanistan, I found myself bracing for a sucker punch and wondering what, say, North Korea might be up to. Doing […]
One day after the New York Times quoted an expert saying the Taliban’s leader has “staged one of the most remarkable military comebacks in modern history,” Fareed Zakaria is in […]
Living in a Shipping Container doesn’t sound like any fun at all until you see these renovated containers.
For anybody struggling through a period of creative stagnation and caught against some sort of Proustian desire to develop a grand ‘idea’ for their art, the Irish painter, Guggi, has […]
As if we needed it: More evidence that Asia’s leaving the US in the dust when it comes to the renewable energies and green tech we’ll need to survive tomorrow’s […]
What does over-consumption have to do with poverty? Is the economic divide rooted in Spiritual hunger? Here’s an explanation of why the West consumes at such an immense level, and how we can begin to change things.
In the six days since I wrote here about the military government’s deadly crackdown in Guinea, international pressure has mounted. Richard Moncrieff, the West Africa project director for International Crisis […]
New research on governance can have non-traditional or controversial results. So boards often resist the academic or big-think suggestions. Boards say, “one size does not fit all”, “it doesn’t apply to us”, or “our board is not ready for such change.” They are uncomfortable with the intrusion. Sticky topics are compensation, transparency and diversity. As economic and social researchers find new trends relating to governance, board traditions are challenged by social innovation.
Ok this is related to our current discussion of time in davids idea i felt it merits its own. Here is something that i have been chewing over. herbie said […]
Something doesn’t match up here. Obama was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in part for integrating the American voice into the international climate conversation, yet the US is being […]
Josh Lieb, the executive producer of “The Daily Show,” visited Big Think to talk about his first novel, “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be […]
President Obama is now the just third sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize—the first since Woodrow Wilson won in 1919 for his role in setting up the League […]
I’m not shedding any tears over the tough financial times facing the nation’s higher education system.
John Bruton, the EU Ambassador to the United States, has an uncommon combination of outsider’s and insider’s insight into how the U.S. government works. He talked to Big Think about […]
I understand why Americans love lists. It jives with our competitive ethos, not to mention our Trump-like love of superlatives. Ours is a culture of Top Ten Lists, Best-Of Issues, […]
Surprise! As if expectations weren’t high enough for the new American president, Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after nine months in office, and all without achieving […]
Romania just unveiled a new memorial dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of gypsies and Jews killed during the Holocaust. This is no small accomplishment for Romania. The country has […]
Most people. in fact I have never met anyone who the slightest idea of the working of own mind their motivation.
They are just a collection of beliefs that rule their thinking and their every thought.
They disagree with other people without understanding anything they have said.
They propound wisdom ,
that they are incapable of comprehending what they have just said ,as I see it,I have also done.
and I am still doing.
as for as I can tell.
Peter Sisson calls himself a serial entrepreneur, having founded three companies and just launched his fourth. His newest venture, Line2, is a company that hopes to change the way we […]
Their stories and misadventures have inspired some of Hollywood’s greatest films. They are the hucksters, burglars, and schemers whose love for taking risks and search for outrageous fortune made them […]