As you probably know by now, my friend Greta Christina was diagnosed with cancer last week, and she’s having surgery today. In the grand scheme of things, it could have […]
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Once Roy Lichtenstein started painting Ben-Day dots in 1961, could he ever stop? After a tour of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, you […]
Songkick, a music promotion site, has added a feature that follows the Kickstarter model to let fans book a tour.
In the umpteenth example of the Onion-ification of reality—the collapse between real life and parody–Jezebel gives us this item on a University of Chicago neuroscientist who was attending a professional […]
Apple announced the new iPad Mini today and as so often the rumors and leaked pictures of prototypes we have seen over the past couple of months were pretty accurate. […]
Several years ago Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid teamed with violinist, composer and neuroscientist Dave Soldier to explore popular music preferences in the United States. They determined what music people […]
After two wonderful years at Big Think, Dollars and Sex has found a new home at MarinaAdshade.com. Please visit me there to keep up with my blog and to get […]
So the best reason to read a “great book” is that you might learn a lot from it about who you are and what you’re supposed to do. In that […]
“Oy vey!” a Big Think blogger wrote to me yesterday. “Is BigThink.com down?” Oy yey, indeed it was. And we certainly weren’t alone. Amazon in recent years has moved beyond […]
MeetMe’s new Photoboard feature will be tested in more than 500 bars across the US. Users who are within a quarter-mile of a bar can have their picture uploaded in a matter of seconds.
So that’s it: the presidential debate season is over. Romney won the first, Obama took the second and…who won the third? Some say the San Francisco Giants, playing opposite the […]
First launched on October 9 and ending later today, this experiment in variable pricing for e-book bundles has made $1.1 million for authors, charities, and the creators of the idea.
A court in Italy has convicted six scientists and one civil defense official of manslaughter in connection with their predictions about an earthquake in l’Aquila in 2009 that killed […]
A Swedish startup launched a Kickstarter project today to raise money to help bring its “lapel-camera” to market by early next year.
A new report out from the Pew Research Center says that people under the age of 30 are more likely to read and are more likely to use their public library.
In this two-part piece, we will examine the portrayal of villains in creative mediums, like novels and comics, and why they are severely lacking; in this part I also argue […]
I use the term neo-patriarchy a lot, to describe the worldview that underlies many of the skirmishes in the “war on women.” The important thing is to take it seriously […]
Companies are always trying to develop products that make our lives better, but these days some of the most advanced technologies are being aimed at a category that used to […]
I use the term neo-patriarchy a lot, to describe the worldview that underlies many of the skirmishes in the “war on women.” The important thing is to take it seriously […]
I use the term neo-patriarchy a lot, to describe the worldview that underlies many of the skirmishes in the “war on women.” The important thing is to take it seriously […]
I use the term neo-patriarchy a lot, to describe the worldview that underlies many of the skirmishes in the “war on women.” The important thing is to take it seriously […]
John Seely Brown argues that foregrounding the Humanities is our only hope of sustaining innovation in the United States.
With new reforms under Cuba’s President Raul Castro, Cubans will be allowed to leave the country without exit permits, which were expensive and difficult to obtain.
As Yale’s Ainissa Ramirez explains in this new video, the harsh Russian winter, combined with the chemical properties of tin, may have led to “the greatest wardrobe malfunction in history.”
Fellow party members of of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner are looking to lower the voting age to 16 in order to bolster the country’s youth movement.
A new website, ipaidabribe.or.ke, allows Kenyans to report bribes they have paid in order to help end the cycle of corruption that runs rampant throughout the country.
Companies that help circumvent internet censorship from controlling governments, such as China and Iran, are finding problems in their over-popularity.
A new company is looking to provide sanitation services to areas that need them most and then use human waste as a source of energy.
It’s not just a search engine, it’s a verb—Google! Despite some recent glitches with finances, Google remains for many the face of the Internet, the go-to site to go to […]
In this two-part piece, we will examine the portrayal of villains in creative mediums, like novels and comics, and why they are severely lacking; I will also argue why it’s […]