Batten down the hatches, people who work in tech support from Bangalore to Bangor. Google’s tribute for today celebrates the invention of the bar code. Replacing those playground-friendly letters with […]
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Today companies like HedgeLender LLC offer securities-backed lending structures that meet the needs of today’s financial consumers.
What causes people to act as they do — the way they’re made, or the way they make, as they go through life? Often in the mind sciences, stable traits […]
Imagine life losing all semblance of stability and becoming subject to a series of occasionally terrifying hallucinations where you streak across the solar system. For Big Think’s recent guest, Kay Redfield […]
Um, why is Washington cutting Pakistan another check after it was revealed that only $500 million out of previous $6.6 billion package actually went toward fighting Taliban and other terrorists? […]
After all the debates over the efficacy of Canadian health care, the Canadian government is pursuing a unique track in cutting the costs and easing some of the burden placed […]
Intuition always tells us that we need to look closer at things that baffle us. Steve Coll’s Senate testimony last Thursday is a reminder that sometimes we need to step […]
What happens when an influential hip-hop star proclaims that a certain brand of boots is suddenly out of style? Is it bad for business? That very thing occurred when Jay-Z […]
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would want you to know that what you are about to read here is “international left-wing libel” against him and his country. So take this […]
It wasn’t greeted with the kind of fanfare it may have deserved, but five years ago when the $10-million Ansari X PRIZE was awarded, it helped usher in a new […]
Maj. Gen. William B. Garrett III, commander of U.S. Army Africa, looked homeward last Tuesday and gave this bleak assessment of us: “Most Americans view Africa, I think, as a […]
A blogstorm of concern is simmering in the booming netbook market, and it’s not about keyboard size or battery life. It’s about the potential health hazards of purportedly antimicrobial silver […]
When it comes to 50th birthday parties, you can’t do much better than Gavin Friday. His childhood friend, U2’s Bono, helped arrange a star-studded benefit concert at New York Carnegie […]
There have been recent signs that the Republicans could bounce back from their devastating defeat last fall in the upcoming midterm elections. As I wrote a month ago, the early […]
There’s an architect in Texas who is known as the Dr. Seuss of architecture. Instead of suburbs with cookie cutter houses, creative architecture offers an opportunity for individuality.
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A pilot project presented before the Colombian embassy in London in 2007. The idea is to enhance the current infrastructure of the capital of Colombia for the teaching of Spanish language to foreign students. The objective is to sell Bogotá as the world’s capital of the teaching of Spanish language.
Anti-aging expert Aubrey de Grey came through Big Think Friday afternoon looking not a bit older than when he first appeared on our site, in December 2007. He was in […]
You’ve heard the hullaballoo about recent legislative steps toward a carbon market. To which John Kerry responded last week, of his new climate bill, with a defensive: “I don’t know […]
This morning’s National Public Radio piece about Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel ends with a jarring quote from Tony Zavaleta, the interim provost of a Texas university that was hit […]
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What if the entire history of mainstream psychology has been focused on the wrong element of the human psyche? To psychologist Tal Ban Shahar, that may be the case: all […]
European Ambassador to the US and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton stopped by today for an engaging chat on climate change, the EU, the world economy, and his relative […]
There are signs of hope trickling in from Gaza. Some say this rump state may have the world’s fastest growing economy (though its base point was not very high). There […]
It’s happened three times in the last three months. A high-profile and hugely-successful man comes forward to admit to dalliances outside his marriage. The first was legendary basketball coach Rick […]
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