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The German government has warned web users that Internet Explorer is insecure after its role in the Google hackings in China.
Big banks are working to cap employee bonuses in the face of a $117bn federal tax and public fury over record payout amounts.
The world’s cheapest car which sells for $2,500 in India is slowly making its way to Europe and the U.S.
“Being first sucks.” That’s what Amanda Simpson, one of the country’s first two openly transgender presidential appointees, told ABC News. “I’d rather not be the first, but someone has to […]
The world’s focus right now is on immediate aid to Haiti, as it should be. But it never hurts to look down the road, too: when the repercussions of Haiti’s […]
If character is the thing you have when you lose everything else, then the people of Haiti must be full to bursting with it. The photos and video of the […]
By now, most of us have come to terms with the fact that exercise, even in small amounts, is good for you. It’s part of the reason that the exercise […]
In little over a hundred days time, Britain will go to the polls, in what many are already describing as a “game changing” General Election. All elections are important, and […]
President Obama will campaign for Mass. Attny General Martha Coakley in hopes that she will replace the late Ted Kennedy and keep control of the Senate.
The Pentagon has placed blame for the Fort Hood shootings on eight Army officers for not relieving Major Nidal Malik Hasan from his post sooner.
Senator Ben Nelson has removed the deal he cut from the Senate healthcare bill which exempted Nebraska from future Medicaid payments.
13 billion years later, experimenters at UC Berkeley have recreated conditions one millionth of a second after the Big Bang when bizarre plasma filled the universe.
Five years after Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, its leader is polling at three percent while the public expects a rigged election between Moscow’s preferred candidates.
A weak internal government and such massive earthquake devastation have left a death toll that could reach 200,000 and little relief aid.
Ricky Gervais closed his Twitter account six weeks after joining to promote the Golden Globes calling the service “pointless” and users “undignified”.
The U.S. State Department will file a démarche against China over the hacked gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Scientists and Nobel Laureates have set the Doomsday Clock back by one minute because of positive arms control measures leaving humanity seven minutes from destruction.
The top U.S. climate negotiator is reminding the world that countries must follow through on the three-page agreement reached in Copenhagen despite its flaws.
Let’s get this straight up front: President Obama has had a remarkable first year in office. He came into office with two wars and a serious financial crisis to deal […]
I once booked a hire car to drive from Binghamton in New York State to Toronto. As I recall it was a four by four with plenty of space in […]
Some media commentators are aghast that their colleagues would weigh the Haitian earthquake as a political event, but if politics is defined, as it famously was by Harold Lasswell in […]
It is true: Eat, Pray, Love was not for everyone—although it was for many, many people, over five million people—mainly women. Women went so mad for the novel they not […]
In the midst of its most severe natural disaster in two centuries, the impoverished nation of Haiti is seeing a death toll already in the tens of thousands. A country […]
Lord Robert Skidelsky sat down with Big Think the other week to talk Keynes. Skidelsky weighed the various life factors that contributed to Keynes’ economic outlook– especially the Bloomsbury Group, […]
String theory has been one of the most famous ideas to emerge from physics in the past 50 years, yet a vocal minority of physicists have criticized its failure to […]
Tomorrow will mark the first anniversary of the passing of American painter Andrew Wyeth. Love his work or hate it, it’s hard to argue that he didn’t leave a significant […]
Electronics manufacturers are banking on the successes of recent 3D theater hits such as Avatar to offer the same “surround vision” experience in your own home with 3D TVs.
Being a spaceship pilot could be a “regular job”, comparable to driving a bus or flying an airplane, in just 20 years time according to a new report.
Technological advances have led to a dramatic fall in the weight of women’s handbags, according to research from a department store chain.