“You’ve had your eight years. Now go away.” These were the words addressed to former White House political guru Karl Rove just four months after the end of President George […]
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Some career journalists must feel like disenfranchised aristocracy. The high overhead of printing and distribution used to make quality content as rare, and therefore as valuable, as gold. But today, […]
Molecular biologist and biotechnology researcher Lee Silver says scientists in his field can’t catch a break. There is something about the study and manipulation of living things that sets off […]
There’s good news and bad news about the openness of scientific information this week. The good news is that you might soon have access to more of it than ever. […]
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke recently claimed that the recession in America was “very likely over,” it was a relief for many. Sure, the United States may be the global […]
A year and a day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, everybody—really, every single person I’ve heard comment from—is lamenting the lack of financial reform on Wall Street. Healthcare reform […]
Fewer than 20 percent of employees are “highly engaged” at work. That’s what Gary Hamel, management guru and bestselling business author, told Big Think during a recent interview. He believes […]
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We’re rolling out two videos today from our interview with Ann Fudge, former CEO and Chairman of Young and Rubicam Brands, a marketing and communications firm. At the time, Fudge […]
I am standing atop a gorgeous valley of olive groves and goat herds. Black-veiled women lug baskets of fruit around town, whose buildings are still pockmarked with mortar fire. This […]
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William Lane Craig ad absurdum One insufferable attribute of the faithful is the ability, nay, the indulgence of equivocating faith to explain all manner of things. Hume said it best: […]
The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philly’s public library system) shuts down on October 2nd, 2009 due to budget cuts.
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We asked some of our financial experts – Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, former Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller, and Time economics columnist Justin Fox – […]
Why politics is getting violent
Big Think recently talked to Howard Gardner, the esteemed Harvard psychologist and the pioneer of the theory of “multiple intelligences”, about success, intelligence, and education. He saw several challenges facing […]
Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
Please! Miss Serena Williams, you just a Tennis players! You can F-word yourself, like Tiger did it ( I am sorry to put you in the scale of Serena, but your profanity is the same as her!) You can not F-word the empire! Play by the rule and respect to your profession! Please! Foot fault is foot fault. Miss Serena Williams. WE AMERICA, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE, DOES NOT NEED THIS KIND OF TENNIS CHAMPION IN US OPEN! Shame!
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If knowledge is power, then Google is the New York Yankees, CIA and Vitali Klitschko rolled into one. As the internet juggernaut maintains its dominance online, its influence on the […]
Attention is finally being paid to Lebanon’s latent political crisis. The prime minister-designate, Saad Hariri, has sacked himself, according to the constitution, for failing to cobble together a power-sharing agreement […]
President Obama makes history again! When history comes, he feels it.rnHe makes it-the Obama health care bill.rnrnIf the GOP play politics as usual, there will be 100% sure we’ll have the bill! (Don’t ask!)rn