Forgery is the bane of the art world. But what does it mean when a forger practices his trade for art’s sake without accepting a cent in return?
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Failure is a terrible thing, but there’s no other way for people to learn how to do most things except to screw up enough until the point where they get […]
BIG THINK has displayed a taste of the astute social commentary of Robert Putnam–the man who was so worried that so many Americans were bowling alone. The success of the megachurch, […]
At Grist this week, David Roberts features a deeply valuable interview with Sandra de Castro Buffington, head of the Hollywood, Health, and Society project at USC. She discusses the project’s […]
A cache of stone tools found on the Arabian Peninsula has reopened the critical question of when and how modern humans escaped from their ancestral homeland in eastern Africa.
China and India will always train more scientists and engineers. But at least America’s still got the best environment for ideas to grow.
Childhood phases we now take for granted—toddler, tween—were established by marketers, not doctors or child specialists. What should we know about girls’ princess phases?
Confident pronouncements of certainty have no place in psychiatry. Humility is the only honest attitude to take to this work. …Neither can we wait for definitive knowledge.
You may say your dream holiday would be trekking in a rainforest or white-water rafting but new research shows most of us are less daring than we think and prefer being beach-side.
Can Western liberal capitalism learn to coexist with other styles, like those of China, India and Brazil’s swiftly developing economies? It can — and it must.
Jon Cohen’s new book reminds us that, for all the claims that apes and human beings are ‘98.5 per cent the same’ in terms of genetics, there is still an unfathomable gap between us.
Walter Kohl, son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, has published a tell-all book describing in moving detail his lonely childhood and the rift with his father.
The aim of the WikiLeaks revelations was not just to embarrass those in power but to lead us to mobilise ourselves to bring about a different functioning of power.
In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet.
Newt Gingrich’s latest op-ed, ostensibly penned along with co-writer Jeb Bush, reads as if it is vintage Gingrich speak, demanding in bold declarative sentences that the federal government give the […]
There is no single smoking gun as to what is behind the current snow storms. But, we have two theories.
I wrote earlier this week about the media and its treatment of Yellowstone caldera. Well, I tried to be calm about a post/video I saw earlier today on CNN’s American […]
If the eruption at Kirishima wasn’t enough to keep us occupied, Bromo in the Tengger Caldera has ramped up its activity significantly. Last fall, the volcano had a few explosive […]
Having spent the last few days figuring out a way around the facebook and twitter blocks in Egypt, I’m back and ready to blog ….. about Yemen. There was another […]
I had a fun time last night speaking to the Licking County Rock and Mineral Club – lots of talk about volcanoes and we spent some time talking about our […]
If you say “it’s snowing hard out there,” are you annoyed if no one gets up to shovel the walkway?
Quit slouching—others may see you as weak! A recent study published in Psychological Science says posture plays an important role in how we perceive power in those around us.
The fallibility of eye-witness memory is well documented. But what about people’s memories of their own past intentions? This is an issue in memory research with real-life implications.
Indian executives pride themselves on things that set their country apart from China: democracy, a reliable legal framework for investors and a widespread command of English.
A new study has found that having an abortion does not put a woman at risk for mental health problems. But you know what does? Having a baby.
While social media has afforded us many things, it’s also given the uncanny ability for a single person to become many different people. All at the same time.
We live in a time of high-tech miracles. But, as world ruler, I’d strive to direct all that creativity towards servicing our need for more truth, more transparency, and more wisdom.
Longer words tend to carry more information, according to research by a team of cognitive scientists. That might sound intuitively obvious, until you start to think about it.
Small companies can now deploy technology that was previously reserved for large organizations so that nearly any employee can now work from anywhere.