Evidence is mounting that football is even more damaging to the brain than it is to the body—with links to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
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Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, I present the revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum […]
With the site’s (admitted) connections to pharmaceutical and other companies, WebMD has become permeated with pseudomedicine and subtle misinformation.
Whether you’re a fan or not, the massive outpouring of grief this week in response to the news that minimalist rock band the White Stripes were to split up might seem puzzling.
Ever wished you could think more laterally to solve a problem? Zapping the brain with electricity helps people think outside the box to solve a task.
Is our psychological capacity the “one big thing” that could help us finally understand what it means to be human? Could it tell us something about how we find meaning in the universe?
Prime Minister David Cameron has launched a devastating attack on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain, warning it is fostering extremist ideology and contributing to Islamic terrorism.
Think Twitter and other social media networks would cause people all over the world to start talking in the exact same way? In fact, the opposite may be true, say researchers.
Sunday, February 6, will be the centenary of his birth. Looking at the Ronald Reagan presidency from today, can we get any sense of how he rates in history?
Why do people play the lottery? On the one hand, the answer is obvious enough: We’re happy to spend $3 for approximately 15 seconds of irrational hope.
Burying trash—the usual way of disposing of the stuff—is old-fashioned and polluting. Atomizing trash eliminates the need to dump it, and generates useful power too.
We are all caught up in a crazy arms race to send our kids to prestigious colleges, where the order of the day (to borrow a useful term from the Cold War) is “escalation dominance.”
For a country that created a special holiday just to remember those who have fought for our freedoms in war, we do a lot of forgetting the rest of the […]
Gay Talese, the New Journalism portraitist of such machos as Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra says respect, not sex, is the key to a happy marriage.
If you’re not a gamer, it’s hard to imagine why 183 million Americans spend over 13 hours a week playing video games. It’s even harder to see why game designer Jane […]
Many of the fastest growing states—like Nevada, whose population grew at a brisk 35.1%—are also states with large Hispanic populations.
Does every type of cancer require its own individualized treatment, or might there be a universal cure? Scientists James Watson and Paul Davies suggest some new and unorthodox approaches to cancer treatment.
Cancer cells are your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong. Therefore, we don’t need to cure cancer, just control it.
Perhaps it is the fate of political leaders never to receive praise when praise is due. Certainly not in the West, and most certainly not in Anglo American politics. Essentially […]
Media Matters reveals that Lila Rose’s undercover “sting” videos of Planned Parenthood have been doctored: –Why is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? –Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her […]
When should competitors work together? Only through greater transparency and sharing can Google and Bing collectively create a better Internet, says Microsoft’s Harry Shum.
Only through greater transparency and sharing can Google and Bing collectively create a better Internet, says Microsoft’s Harry Shum. But how likely is it that arch-rivals Google and Microsoft will […]
CEO Whisperer Stephen Miles stresses the importance for execs to have social media strategies in place—especially during times of crisis. And this has broader implications for leaders at any level, since new forms of communication necessitate a two-way dialogue with the public.
CEO Whisperer Stephen Miles recounts the story of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce who learned just how important social media is during times of crisis.
We haven’t talked too much about volcanic activity in Africa lately, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. I had a couple galleries of images come through my inbox in […]
I hesitate to undermine the good will I might have built up with BIG THINK readers by writing about uniter-not-divider topics like movies and happiness. But Reagan’s birthday is this weekend, […]
Now we are hearing about the memoir. Now, just as we stand shocked and awed before another chaotic call for revolutionary change in leadership, a moment some have claimed confirm […]
It has been a bit of a disjointed yet busy week, so I thought I’d end it with a new Mystery Volcano photo. It might be another challenging photo like […]
I spent yesterday speaking to people in rural areas. Almost everyone was pro-Mubarak. You start to see some of the genius of the last two decades of information management.