Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik has been in a very small minority among her fellow philosophy scholars; for one, she’s woman, but more importantly, she is convinced that philosophers were doing […]
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During the presidential campaign last year, a woman told Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting that she couldn’t trust then Sen. Barack Obama because she had read that […]
Fashion historian Caroline Weber came to Big Think yesterday in a beautiful Marc Jacobs dress. The significance of her outfit? Shoulder pads, or as she calls them, an 80s-era fad […]
Want to help protect your region’s sources of fresh water? Or find out the results of the latest water-quality tests for the stuff you’re drinking? If you live in the […]
When Josh Lieb set out to write a book about a 12-year-old billionaire from Nebraska, the comedy writer and producer of The Daily Show, didn’t incorporate too many details from […]
Amidst the all the discussion of President Obama’s Nobel Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences quietly made another political statement by giving the Nobel Prize in Economics to to […]
So corporate America is expected to keep most people healthy at a reasonable cost. As sportscaster Al Michaels once asked: "Do You Believe in Miracles?"
Conversations about mental health parity in insurance coverage trigger my repressed memory.
For the first time in over a year, the Dow today is flirting with the 10,000 point mark. Yet, insists Big Think’s recent guest Nomi Prins, unless you’re one of […]
Hillary Clinton, her elbow healed up, finally made it to Moscow, only to be rebuffed by her Russian counterpart in her push for stricter sanctions against Iran. Getting from nyet […]
Let’s hand it to Joe Biden’s savvy press secretary Jay Carney: the guy is EVERYWHERE. There is a full-on media blitz to buff up the veep’s image as he emerges […]
There aren’t a lot of things still considered sacred in Canada. There’s hockey and… well, there’s hockey. And when it comes to the country’s two most-historic National Hockey League franchises, […]
Iris- The iris is the colored portion of the visible eye. It is a muscle that affects the size of the pupil, depending on the amount of light needed to […]
Kurt Andersen, the host of “Studio 360” and master of many media (magazines, novels, nonfiction books, film), came by Big Think today to speak about the introduction he wrote to […]
Now that the Obama administration has characterized Fox News as a political opponent rather than a disinterested news outlet, people are debating the political fallout as well as the veracity […]
Where in the United States are teen-age girls most likely to become pregnant? According to this study, published last month in the journal Reproductive Health, the answer is: Where Evangelical […]
Great news, fans of continued existence! The world will not end in 2012, despite what you may have heard from a passing lunatic and/or viral marketer for this film. How […]
The human mind is full of contradictory impulses. For instance, I doubt that many of us want the President to do his own laundry. He’s not like us; he has […]
Using the Definition of the Domain of Morality as a sort of logical compass, Conservatism is argued to be "going against nature."
Looking back at immigration in the past, we keep wondering what would´ve happened if our ancestors wouldn´t have been welcomed in their new lands.
Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter are the scientists whose names will always be associated with mapping of the human genome — after racing to complete the job, the two […]
Calvin Trillin is one of America’s most versatile authors—from poetry, to humor, to important investigative journalism, his work stirs envy in every type of writer. Trillin sat down with Big […]
Over the past decade, there’s been a wide consensus in the Western world that blackface makeup and other takes on old, racist minstrel iconography is no longer acceptable. In the […]
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Last week I wrote that President Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize more as a show of support for the multilateral policy he advocates than for anything he has […]
The breaking news that a car bomb has killed at least 41 people in northwest Pakistan gives renewed currency to the question Vice President Joe Biden poses in the scene […]
With all the focus on the big decisions ahead in Afghanistan, I found myself bracing for a sucker punch and wondering what, say, North Korea might be up to. Doing […]
One day after the New York Times quoted an expert saying the Taliban’s leader has “staged one of the most remarkable military comebacks in modern history,” Fareed Zakaria is in […]
Living in a Shipping Container doesn't sound like any fun at all until you see these renovated containers.