Serial entrepreneur Chris Andrews, with his new start-up SoundLink, is ready to revolutionize the Internet, again—this time with voice cues embedded in links, offering a more dynamic Web experience.
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With the economy struggling, it can be hard enough to operate a profitable business—let alone one that tries to improve the world. But tough times may be increasing interest in social ventures.
From beating hearts to breathing lungs, livers to fallopian tubes, the list of organs replicated in miniature form using microchip technology is growing, revolutionizing how drugs are tested.
Researchers have developed the first memory prosthetic device—a neural implant that, in rats, restored lost brain function and improved short-term memory retention.
Georges Braque once said that he and Pablo Picasso were “roped together like mountain climbers” during the formative years of Cubism—1910 through 1912. Picasso and Braque scaled the mountain of […]
Early this morning, a number of prisoners escaped from a Yemeni central prison in the eastern coastal city of al-Mukalla. The details, as with most stories – particularly breaking ones […]
The eruption of Nabro in Eritrea has been a bit of an enigma, mostly because the volcano is (a) so remote and (b) it’s previous activity is mostly unknown. In […]
So maybe it’s time to come down from space and say some obvious things about the campaign for the Republican nomination. The first is that Sarah Palin has been defeated […]
Kathy is a teacher. She has a basket. Kathy puts all of her favorite things in her basket and takes it everywhere so that they’re close at hand. Because she’s […]
Could ‘peace talks’ end the ‘climate war’? A call for a meeting of moderate minds as a means to ending the climate debate stalemate.
Scientists have found that ocean levels are rising faster than at any point in the past 2000 years and it’s due to global warming. Less land ice and warmer ocean waters will result.
There may be renewed interest in whether we can sense the Earth’s magnetic field after a finding that a light-sensitive protein in our eyes can act as a “compass” in a fly’s eye.
After resupplying the International Space Station, and laden with its trash, the pilot-less Johannes Kepler completed its mission yesterday by burning up over the Pacific.
Building more gas power plants (rather than nuclear ones, for instance) could see UK consumers paying more for energy or miss its 2020 carbon targets, a think tank warns.
I spend a lot of time hunting for cool stuff. Garage sales, estate sales, yard sales, antique stores, junk shops – you get the idea. I spend more time looking […]
–Guest post by Patrick Riley, AoE Culture Correspondent There was a time when mainstream media coverage of an upcoming movie would create buzz about the film. Nowadays, publications like the New […]
The first total lunar eclipse of 2011 took place less than a week ago although people residing in North America weren’t able to enjoy it. This time around, people in […]
Soon, you will be able to experience superstar chef David Chang, the genius behind the ever-expanding Momofuku foodie empire, as a brand-new iPad app. This Lucky Peach app is, in […]
In case you missed some of the volcanic activity that wasn’t in Chile or Eritrea (I know I did), here is the (slightly late from me) Global Volcanism ProgramWeekly Volcanic […]
Can we profit from someone else’s innocent error? Former New York Times columnist Randy Cohen answers the first in a series of ethical questions from Big Think readers.
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLE Richard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, […]
More and more of the soldiers being put in harm’s way in Iraq are actually machines. Scholar and Wired for War author P.W. Singer explains what happens when science fiction becomes battlefield reality.
The Web has sprung the lid on a Pandora’s Box of new human connections – mirroring and magnifying the best, the worst, and the ugliest aspects of our nature.
I’m back! It was a great week off down in Charleston, but it is now time to get back to work. Rather than try to catch up on all the […]
Neo liberalism is in crisis. Discuss. If only I were back at some red brick university and being asked this question by one of my lecturers! Neo liberalism is in […]
When I first started blogging on BigThink, I compiled a list of people who I admired. I wanted to use those folks as a north star as I was trying to […]
Paul Bogush pushed back (in a nice way) on my recently-popular post, If you were on Twitter. First he wrote about how most educators are too busy to be involved in […]
LulzSec announces “we have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census.” What’s next?
The notion of “collaborative consumption” isn’t new but social networking, coupled with “geo-located” smart phones, has super-charged the concept.
Facebook is set to grow its net U.S. display revenues by 80.9% this year to $2.19b, toppling Yahoo to become the largest U.S. display advertiser, an internet research firm claims.