The Jerusalem Post remarks on the scarcity of Nobel laureates in the Muslim and Arab worlds after another Israeli is awarded a Nobel Prize.
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The race to archive GeoCities pages began after the free website company’s imminent demise was announced.
French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, the founder of structuralist anthropology, has died aged 100.
A gifted student who publicly confronted Iran’s Supreme Leader has reportedly gone missing and an internet campaign has been launched to publicise his disappearance.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has launched a campaign to oppose a government amendment legally preventing political discussion about the legalization of drugs.
An undercover investigation of a Vermont slaughterhouse has revealed disgusting abuses of animals.
Just about a month remains before December’s culminating UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen (COP15) – the last five days of pre-COP15 talks are taking place this week in Barcelona. The […]
In 2005, The New York Times revealed that under a presidential order signed in 2002, the National Security Agency (NSA) had been monitoring the phone calls, e-mails, and internet traffic […]
Wrestling with any decisions today? Wondering whether to move to Minnesota or dump that guy or change your Facebook profile picture? Maybe you’ve also wondered what’s going on when you […]
A.N. Wilson, the arch-conservative English litterateur, doesn’t like scientists. They are “gods of certainty” and people who respect them, he writes today, are responsible for killing most of Britain’s cows […]
How will the introduction of e-book devices affect academics and fit into the scholarly ecosystem? And is the book as an artifact dead?
An application to challenge the patenting of human genes that could hamper diagnostic research has been upheld by a federal judge in New York.
Scientists suggest that having a high IQ has nothing to do with practical ability and good judgement, which means clever folks can behave stupidly.
A bizarre video of a bewildered Anna Nicole Smith painted like a clown has been submitted as evidence that she was being held in a drugged stupor by Howard K. Stern.
A wild bear mauled to death two militants of the Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen in the mountains on Monday.
An 11-year-old Bulgarian girl gave birth on her wedding day – and her husband now faces prison for having sex with a minor.
Middle America is up in arms after fully exposed breasts were aired on TV – as part of a breast cancer exam awareness campaign!
Were former Vice President Dick Cheney’s vague responses to the FBI during the Valerie Plame affair clever question dodging or did he really not remember?
For years organ donors have suffered the medical costs of saving another person’s life – now health insurers are denying them cover too.
Hamid Karzai’s default election victory in Afghanistan spells difficulties for the supporters of the cancelled run-off, including President Barack Obama.
A crucial round of climate change talks are underway in Spain, with a singular message shared widely among United Nations delegates: get ready to deliver big in Copenhagen.
Because we aspire to put ideas above ideology here at Big Think, I want to make sure you’ve heard of Andrew Bacevich, a scholar and retired army officer who would […]
Why Vietnam Matters — a book recommended recently by George Packer of The New Yorker — gets interesting before you come across a single word written by the book’s author. […]
Russell Simmons says no. Between Jay-Z, LL Cool J and Ice-T, all signs point upwards. Big Think also asked the business mogul if he thought the world has changed at […]
When I muse about the sort of Americans who might one day write in to share first-hand insights on this Global Pedestrian blog of mine, I tend to think of […]
If you think “Sony” or “Toyota” when you think of Japan, you might just be as clueless as I’ve been about “the nation’s postwar order, which relied on colossal public […]
Radovan Karadzic is making a mockery of efforts to strengthen courts’ ability to try and prosecute accused war criminals. Karadzic faces charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, […]
So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. To which Ernest Hemingway replied, “yes. They have more money.” Could they one day end up having more fingers? Toes? Brains? The economist Robert Frank […]
What happens if America and other rich nations like Japan and Britain default on their massive debts and end up bankrupt?