Over the last several decades, both through good economic times and bad, the United States has transformed into the planet’s undisputed worry champion.
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Ask any artist to explain how color works, and they will launch into a treatise about the Three Primary Colors: red, blue, and yellow. This would be wrong, says Jason Cohen.
A very smart statistician has realized that it is possible to sort, with upwards of 90 percent accuracy, the winning scratch tickets from the losing ones before anything is scratched off.
All Americans, not just those in senior governmental positions, could benefit from having the option to watch Al Jazeera English—or at least having the option not to watch it.
An “invisibility cloak” that’s able to hide items thousands of times larger than before now exists, scientists say. The cloak works by wrapping light around an object.
Arguably, the U.S. now has a corporate tax code that’s the worst of all worlds. The official rate is higher than in most countries, so enormous time and effort are devoted to finding loopholes.
The Google Art Project offers a new form of collaboration that allows museums to take extraordinary art works beyond their individual homes to create the first global art collection.
Nature is smart, efficient and innovative. That’s why scientists and engineers all over the world try to copy it in their labs. The field concerned with imitating nature is called biomimetics.
Seven years before Charles Darwin went public with his evolutionary theories in On the Origin of Species, Herbert Spencer sketched out the basics of evolution and natural selection.
Two management consultants identify four guiding principles successful companies have followed to prepare for a world of constant Internet connectivity.
I didn’t get to watch the livestream of the first half of our Farsight 2011: Beyond The Search Box event today, but the parts I did see were enough to […]
“The future of search is verbs.” This is what Bill Gates told Esther Dyson over dinner, and what Esther Dyson told us at Big Think’s Google v. Bing/Farsight 2011: Beyond […]
For many Washington, DC readers the upcoming event at the Newseum, co-organized by the School of Communication at American University, is likely to be of strong interest. Details are below […]
Long gone are the days when Clapham was a small, rustic village well beyond the gates of medieval London. Also gone, but less long, is the era of Clapham as […]
Four out of five autism sufferers are male. Are fundamental male-female brain differences causing the gap?
In a panel near the end of Farsight 2011, several panelists spoke about how the sheer quantity of information around us is affecting the way we think — and even how our brains are developing.
In a special presentation at Big Think’s Farsight 2011, Ilya Segalovich, co-founder and CTO of Russian search engine Yandex spoke about why his company has been dominant in that country’s […]
The fourth part of Big Think’s Farsight 2011 event discussed what future search experiences might be like. People instinctively want to interact with technology in ways that feel natural to […]
Facebook and other social media are becoming permanently woven into our society’s fabric, says NYU telecommunications professor Clay Shirky. Privacy is a 20th century notion.
Part 5 of Big Think’s Farsight 2011 event looked at how artificial intelligence and machine learning would affect the future of digital search — and how we understand and predict the future.
Any actions associated with zero costs tend to become debased over time, says technologist Jaron Lanier. Search is no different.
In part 2 of Big Think’s Farsight 2011 event Principal Engineer at Google, Matt Cutts and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Dr. Harry Shum bump heads.
Some other bits of news from around volcano world (that doesn’t have to do with Japan). Eruptions readers have sent me a pile of leads/articles over the last week and […]
Vivek Wadhwa introduces the key note speaker of Big Think’s Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box, former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel.
By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.
Do anti-prostitution laws discriminate against women near the bottom of the income distribution while ignoring similar behavior by women near the top?
Accusations that Microsoft’s search engine Bing has been copying Google’s search algorithm came on the same day that Bing and Google execs are set to meet at a Big Think event in San Francisco on the future of search. Watch the event streaming on our homepage from 1pm-5pm EST.
GUEST POST BY LINA SRIVASTAVA “I felt if the Cairo museum is robbed, Egypt will never be able to get up again.” — Zahi Hawass. Egypt is in the midst […]