Guest Thinkers — March 27, 2011

Buddy, Can You Spare a Mongoose?

Lindsay Beyerstein

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A deadly Egyptian cobra is AWOL from the Bronx Zoo. Anybody got a spare mongoose?

[Photo credit: Pandiyan, Creative Commons.]

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A glitch art depiction of an old sketch reminiscent of Da Vinci, featuring a bearded man in a hat with digital distortion weaving through his face.

High Culture

Ken Burns on what we get wrong about Leonardo da Vinci

Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.

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The Present

The overlooked virtues of a crowded world

In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.

The Present

Khan Academy’s founder on how AI can supercharge “mastery learning”

“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.

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Neuropsych

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia

Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.

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Life

How some plants became carnivorous predators

Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.

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