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The C.I.A. planned to shoot separate mock, gay sex tapes implicating Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden in an attempt to delegitimize the men's authority, according to The Guardian.
Energy producers who met with skyrocketing food prices and international protests while using food crops to create large quantities of biofuels are now eyeing inedible waste.
A cache of René Magritte's personal letters are set to be auctioned soon at Sotheby's, reports the Economist; the French surrealist was "unremittingly cheery" in his correspondence.
After three men who each believed he was Jesus Christ were made to live together as a psychological experiment, psychologists better understand the nature and limits of identity.
Do the similarities between the Black Panthers of the '60s and today's TEA Party run deeper than guns, anger and demand for limited government?
"English has been a language of occupiers and imperialists, but also one of insurgents and democrats," writes Isaac Chotiner. The New Yorker discusses the new lingua franca.
"China, Russia and the U.S., as permanent members of the security council, are holding themselves above the law," says Amnesty International in a new report.
“The camera is a weapon. The camera can be a machine gun. It can be a psychoanalytical couch. It can be a warm kiss,” opines Henri Cartier-Bresson in The Decisive […]
How dangerous can media consolidation get? According to one writer, it can be deadly. In his book Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media, Eric Klinenberg describes how […]
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It took ten years for Intel CTO Justin Rattner to develop the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second. Between 1996 and 2000, it was the world’s fastest […]
Three years ago, five-time Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter had a pulmonary embolism that threatened her life. She recounts her time in the ER as an incredibly frightening experience, and […]
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Mark Zuckerberg's company has a long history of intruding on users' privacy, apologizing, and then scaling back. But it never scales back all the way.
Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, stopped by the Big Think offices this afternoon to talk to us about his new book "Cognitive […]
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When students are flunking in high numbers, teachers and administrators must take three crucial steps.
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Andres Alonso remembers his school experience fondly. How can we replicate that experience for the next generation?
In March, Sunlight Labs announced Design for America -- a 10-week design and data visualization contest aiming to connect the creative community with the increasing amounts of public data produced […]
Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler for the New York Times, announced today that he is putting down his pen. In his column, he talks about what he's learned over the past […]
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The longtime sportswriter talks about his personal style and who he'd want to step into the ring with.
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The greatest baseball player ever was Babe Ruth. Not only because every home run hit after him "has his DNA in it," but also for his prowess as a pitcher. […]
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Steroids aren't as big a problem as the press has made them out to be. "And if they are, we’ve got a pitcher on steroids throwing to a batter on […]