Guest Thinkers

What did Einstein mean by “God” playing dice, or “us believing physicists”? Was he speaking literally or metaphorically?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke for many when she said on Monday that she had never so admired, so depended on and so cared for someone who drove her so crazy so often.

Sorry about the lack of updates – I’ve had some computer-related issues here at the AGU 2010 meeting, but hopefully tomorrow I can highlight some cool stuff I’ve learned about […]

One of the frustrations that comes with a new and interesting idea is the large number of people who will tell you that you’re actually saying something old and familiar. […]

The beauty of the allegations against the Wikileaks progenitor is that no one, save his accusers and Assange himself, knows the truth.

The open-source movement’s capacity for collaborative innovation on the content and productivity side is a well-established reality, with success stories like Wikipedia, WordPress and Firefox to show for. But open-source […]

On the 9th of December, Astronomers Madhusudhan, Harrington and colleagues recently discovered a massive gas giant planet, orbiting a star which they have coined the first carbon-rich world ever observed. […]

Raising a country from poverty to affluence should make the nation’s population happier, right? Wrong, according to a new study of 54 countries worldwide.

Prehistoric humans, along with Neanderthals and Homo antecessor, made meals of each other, suggests new research on human teeth marks found on prehistoric human bones.

There are predictions that, like Latin before it, English must inevitably lose its global dominance. The Guardian’s Robert McCrum is not convinced.

Obesity is a growing global health problem, and we all know why, don’t we? It’s the fault of corporations that sell corn syrup, and a starkly unequal society (why would […]

A California judge signed off on Festivus as a legit religion: Locked up in a California jail, Malcolm Alarmo King wanted healthier meals. In an argument apparently made to a […]

Who won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2006? Whoever it was, it should have been Julian Assange for this self-description: Thu 29 Jun 2006 : Krill to the […]

War-torn Afghanistan has a long path to healing ahead, but one nonprofit, Business Council for Peace, is quietly pushing things along with a smart social enterprise that trains Afghan women […]

Chances are you have probably never heard of the stem cell tourism industry.  This nascent yet growing industry consists of clinics and practitioners in China, Mexico, and Germany who promote […]

Recently, I had the rare opportunity to be on both The Colbert Report and the Conan show. As you can imagine, we had a madcap, hilarious romp through time travel, […]

A shortcoming of Lockean liberalism, the kind of liberty to which the Founders were primarily devoted, is its tendency to undermine the stability of the family over time.  As the nation’s […]

Terrorism is not so much a military strategy as a public relations strategy. The aim of terrorists is not to defeat their enemies militarily, but to provoke some kind of […]

So here’s  a contribution to a symposium on our president that I wrote in the form of advice.  An excerpt follows: Maybe our president can fend off creeping Tea-Partyism only by […]

What did the American Revolution look like? Nathaniel Hawthorne imagined it as an angry face, painted so as to appear divided in two, perhaps caught between principle and pragmatism.

If we continue on our current path of unbridled consumerism and environmental destruction, the most likely future scenario is one in which the quality of human lives is relatively low.

Exploring open relationships can change our assumptions about intimacy and empowerment, and give excitement to a world otherwise determined by the limits of the present culture.

Whatever one’s views on the initial case for making drugs illegal, the cost has been tremendous, and in many aspects unanticipated, says Nobel Laureate Gary Becker.

This is your chance to decide what content exists about marketing online – scroll down to read more and leave a comment with your response. Astute readers who visit this […]

A majority of Americans who’ve suffered kidney failure go to Medicare-certified treatment centers three times weekly for dialysis. Many of these are part of large chains, that are for-profit businesses. […]

If you read as much about art as I do, things that seem unrelated on the surface tend to pool together in the eddies of my consciousness. Two unrelated concepts […]

Today, Bing announced it has become a Facebook Instant Personalization partner, and is going to start using like data to change the way you comprehend your search results on Bing. […]

It’s my great pleasure to unveil something we’ve been working on for the last little bit, 3 simple announcements from my company:nWe announced this morning some really exciting news, parts […]

Facebook Likes are the new audience interaction. More than 50 people liked my post on Facebook simplifying their Facebook Page management tools on the Involver blog, yet only one person […]

“To me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world, and we’re not gonna get a chance to get people to remember much […]