In addition to an increased risk of needing Lasik surgery and an unnatural LCD-like glow to your complexion, excessive time on Facebook may be keeping you from your family and […]
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The so-called Instinct Diet attacks the two primary drivers of failure in dieting: deprivation and hunger.
What happens when a country opens its economy to the world? Do political and economic reforms readily translate to greater economic growth and productivity? And do such reforms create an […]
Stem cells are medicine’s next frontier. Stem cells are political thin ice. Stem cells mark our moral Armageddon. The positions on stem cell research are as various as the diseases […]
As the Americans hem and haw about the perils of socialism or semi-socialism or quasi-socialistic thinking, book sales of Marx have been downright skippy since the financial crisis broke out […]
Before announce the result of Bank Stress Testing. Mr. Geithner and the SEC should take care the short selling first! Action Please! Mr. Geithner, you job is not winning Nobel Prize like the bank-nationalized Professors, but save the America from recession (this bigger than winning the Nobel!!) Deal with the short selling! NOW!
Like a great gravity-eating vortex, the world of “pull” is increasingly at our digitized fingertips with new ways to bring previously out-of-reach information into the realm of practical individualized use. […]
The free-for-all world of the blogosphere is set to get a Nielsen-style ratings system that could finally open a new age in classifying weblogs. But to get an understanding how […]
The game of basketball is one of absolutes, built on indisputable numbers. Either the ball went in the hoop or it didn’t. The game of diplomacy is very different. But […]
It started with a man in a piebald clown’s wig throwing his clown’s nose at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It ended with a walkout of all E.U. delegates to the […]
Finding a job, a date, used clothing, golden retriever, or pretty much anything else has been facilitated immensely by the online classifieds site Craigslist. But the ease with which users […]
Following the resounding success of last week’s “Can Monopolies Save the Internet?” webcast from Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center, Big Think, in collaboration with the Wisconsin School of Business, will […]
It’s April 20th, known the world over as International Pot Smoking Day. If you’re reading this you’re probably not stoned. Although given the increasingly numerous reasons to be stoned, you […]
One outstanding task on the global conversation to-do list is how to communicate across languages on all our various new media. Now, a linguistic brain trust at MIT has stepped […]
Yesterday, Obama met his first stage of exchanging ideas with 34 leaders of Latin American and Caribbean (Conference in Trinidad and Tobago)
Until some mad genetic engineer with a cache of tropical real estate makes Jurassic Park a reality, the details of the lives of dinosaurs beyond what fossils and fossilized footprints […]
This article, from 2009, laments the lack of popular US protest movements at the time. What would the author say now?
In a move that many media analysts say was inevitable, The New York Times has decided to pare down its weekly content. Sections with regional and niche appeal will be […]
You have no idea what it takes to become an Indian entrepreneur. What does it take to start a small business in New Delhi? What are the barriers in enforcing […]
An idea of God being an author, creator of ideas, which fuel the story, whether creating the scenarios, and the obstacles and even introducing the characters.
Americans in gun-loving states have always bought and sold their heat with gusto. In a downturn however, arms small and large are being traded like barrels of light sweet crude […]
All too familiar with the ravages of the late-90s tech bubble, tech companies are not playing the fool this time around. Though they are by no means seeing stellar profits–in […]
The day in 1909 when Congress passed the sixteenth amendment to levy income taxes on states without any obligations to share the financial fruits with them is remembered as a […]
If you conscientiously object to ponying up your income this year, be advised that 2009 could rank as a tough one for tax evasion. Offshore accounts are increasingly scrutinized, year-end […]
Today, throughout America, modern-day revolutionaries are quiety scattering tea bags around state capitals in a mass protest more akin to weekend suburbanites mulching their front lawns than the Boston Tea […]
On a day of mind-numbing acronyms that few aside from tax preparers can decipher without IRS instructions, we should note one that could mark the way to tax system salvation. […]
One idea to raise a bit of funding for Washington without delving into the pockets of every American seems awfully appropriate in light of Wall Street’s penchant for risk. Regulatory […]
In this year marked by government largess, Big Think wants to know what you did to cut corners on your taxes this year. We know you did it. Totally anonymous, […]
Just starting this post was a task in itself. I was going against my first instinct immediately, whether to write about first instincts or not (How ironic). Everytime I went against my […]
Recent economic hardships have made the Great Depression something of a cultural hot topic. Is that making the economy worse? It’s hard to believe that in a world where the […]