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Obama has committed to sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan where the Defense Department estimates there are only 100 Al-Qaeda fighters.
A new study fails to find correlation between increased cell phone use and instances of brain tumors in a Scandinavian sample.
As its newsroom continues to shrink, the New York Times is open to cutting some of its over 60 blogs out of web circulation.
As an artist who famously dubbed his studio the Factory, deciding whether a newfound Warhol piece is authentic or fake is turning vitriolic.
Apple’s purchase of the online music streamer LaLa signals the first major change to the iTunes platform since it revolutionized the music market.
New employment data indicates that the number of jobs lost in November was the lowest number since the start of the recession.
Obama has announced he will attend the final weekend of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference giving him more authority to shape the final outcome.
After a fireworks display at a nightclub in Russia during which the roof caught fire over 100 people are dead at an event celebrating the club’s anniversary.
Dr. Joseph Zuckerman,Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases and 2009 President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, spoke with us […]
The White House has announced plans to increase its drone program in the Taliban-overrun areas of Pakistan in order to compliment the decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
More Americans think the US should “mind its own business” in regard to the rest of the world, according to a new poll.
Wartime romance flick “Brothers” starring Jake Gyllenhaal has commenced the inevitable onslaught of Hollywood’s interpretation of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Johann Hari of The Independent is praying for the global warming deniers to be proven right, but asks why others are prepared to take a 50:50 gamble on the habitability of the planet.
An enzyme in human blood that enables our lungs to exhale carbon dioxide could be “the key to isolation carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants” in order to safely store them, scientists claim.
Providing birds with seed can affect the evolution of our feathered friends according to research by European scientists – and could lead to the formation of new species.
A forensic study into shark DNA has revealed that many of the hammerhead sharks used to make shark-fin soup started life in American waters.
Some Catholic Bishops are threatening to deny liberals and supporters of abortion the Holy Communion lest their congregation take on more conservative views.
Senator John McCain is urging elderly Americans to chop up their AARP membership cards and mail them to the organization which he claims is betraying them by supporting healthcare reform.
Sarah Palin has jumped on the Obama “birth heritage” bandwagon by declaring that the legitimacy of the American president’s birth certificate is a “rightful” issue and “fair game”.
With the American health care debate in full force, Big Think thought it an opportune time to put together a package on the subject. Today we roll out two interviews […]
As most any musician will tell you, the music industry just isn’t what it used to be. While there are a variety of reasons for this decline, the classical pianist […]
David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal, sat down with Big Think for our series on the economic crisis, What Went Wrong? When talking about the cleanup that […]
Ed Koch, the former three-term mayor of New York City, visited Big Think yesterday afternoon and lived up to his reputation as the quintessential New Yorker. He spoke of his […]
The city that never sleeps is also the city that forever changes, making its future notoriously impossible to predict. Recently a number of our experts tried anyway, gazing into their […]
Last night officials began “chemotherapy treatment for the Great Lakes” when it began poisoning sections to do away with the invasive Asian carp.
One of Wall Street’s best-paid bankers, Hugh McGee, is trying to get his son’s teacher fired after she allegedly branded investment bankers as “sleazeballs”.
In a move that infuriated gay rights activists, New York State gave the thumbs down yesterday to a law that would have legalized gay marriage.
The British police have been accused of misusing powers granted under anti-terrorism laws to stop tourists from taking photographs of landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral.
Archaeologists in Cyprus have discovered a 10,500-years-old water well that contains the skeleton of a young woman.
More than 2,700 unmarked graves containing 3,000 bodies have been found in the Indian-administered Kashmir Valley, according to a human rights group.