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, […]
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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?
An American girl sparked an international rescue effort after she alerted British authorities about a teenager’s Facebook suicide note.
Chinese meteorologists have successfully induced artificial snow to fall in Beijing after chemically seeding clouds to combat lingering drought.
The bizarre mating rituals of sea horses are fascinating – and they are the only species in which the male becomes pregnant.
A short stroll through the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago reminds us of the blood curdling medicine of yore.
Scientists have linked mental health problems like depression to the consumption of processed foods.
The Apple marketing department is taking subtle swipes at Microsoft via Google AdWords.
Wal-Mart and other US retailers have been accused of selling goods from farms that use child labor.
The Church of Scientology has elaborate means of preventing its leavers from spilling its secrets, according to ex-members.
For the first time an experimental drug to treat lupus has been found to be effective in a second round of clinical trials.
Steve Abrams wouldn’t advise dropping out of college, though it seemed to work for him. He got out of there a semester in, and is now successfully the owner of […]
John Irving came by Big Think to discuss his latest book, “Last Night in Twisted River,” and the craft of fiction writing. He explained that for each of his 12 […]
Maybe it’s because the healthcare debate has been getting so hot lately. Maybe the battle cries generated by Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth are inconveniently echoing off into the distance. Maybe […]
In 2006 incumbent Connecticut Senator—and former Vice Presidential candidate—Joe Lieberman lost in the Democratic primaries to Ned Lamont, a relative unknown who had challenged Lieberman’s support of the Patriot Act […]
Perhaps it’s not surprising that people take political results personally. We come to identify with our favored candidate—and sometimes to revile their opponent. When our party wins, we are elated; […]
Politicians like to brag about having passed their bills with bipartisan support. It shows that they are willing cooperate with their political opponents and that they are—at least superficially—more concerned […]
The ethics of more than 30 lawmakers and their aides have been under scrutiny, according to a leaked report.
Why do Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh oppose Obama’s healthcare reforms? Ask their wives.
The coronary angiogram was not discovered through scientific skill but via a medical accident.
The economic boats aren’t rising, they’re bobbing, and analysts are being swept away by the tide of numbers, writes the Wall Street Journal.
The political crisis in Honduras could be nearing its end after the de facto government agreed to let the ousted president finish his term.
An artist with autism has drawn an 18-foot picture of New York from memory after a 20-minute flight over the city.
Thousands of juvenile convictions in Pennsylvania have been chucked out following a “jailing kids for cash” scandal concerning a former Luzerne County judge.
Wal-Mart plans to cater to our cradle-to-grave needs—and is now selling coffins.
Spiders find a bloodsucking-by-proxy diet sexy—and it helps control malaria, new research finds.
For the first time in decades NASA will subject monkeys to radiation experiments to test the long-term effects of space travel on humans.
“Nobody who’s ever been poor would ever use the phrase ‘selling out.'” So said Sherman Alexie, award-winning author of “War Dances,” “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” and […]