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The Gamburtsev mountain range, buried beneath a kilometre of ice, has been mapped for the first time by an international team of experts.
The US Senate has narrowly voted to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul the country’s healthcare.
David Small’s graphic memoir, “Stitches,” may not have won the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature this year. But it did break new ground in a rapidly evolving medium, […]
A website that matches animals’ “personalities” with those of humans was just one of the many eye-opening ideas that UT Austin psychologist Sam Gosling shared in his second Big Think […]
Three men have been charged by the feds for a 2008 stunt that replaced cable giant Comcast’s homepage with a message to other hackers – costing the company an over $128,000.
A law banning gay marriage in Texas has effectively banned all marriage according to the Democratic attorney general candidate.
The sun will set on the Oprah Winfrey Show – one of America’s most popular TV shows – in September 2011 after two decades on the airwaves.
New research has revealed how the extinction of mammoths and mastodons changed the landscape of the earth.
A dancer with epilepsy has stopped taking her medication and is hoping to have a seizure on stage to raise awareness about “an invisible disability.”
A gang have been arrested on suspicion of killing people and selling their fat on the black market.
Permission to use embryonic stem cells has been requested by scientists developing a cure for blindness.
Harvard is the latest US University to take up the fictional wizard-sport Quidditch which features in the Harry Potter books.
Senator John Kerry’s daughter was arrested yesterday in Las Angeles on suspicion of driving while under the influence.
Detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons are “likely to have been tortured by Afghan officials” a former senior Canadian diplomat has claimed.
Are you an eligible prospective immigrant to the United States? Are you feeling lucky? If so, you have 10 more days to apply for the random selection process conducted annually […]
Last night a fireball lit up parts of the Utah sky– and the phenomenon, which saw the dead of night as bright as day, was captured on CCTV.
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called the hacking of her Yahoo e-mail account the “most disruptive and discouraging” incident in her campaign.
A service by North Pole dwellers to answer letters addressed to Santa has been suspended after a sex offender was recognized as a volunteer.
Sufferers of the chromosomal disorder Downs syndrome could be helped by a new drug which increases the levels of message-carrying chemicals in the brain.
In South Africa a polygamist businessman has been convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and the attempted murder of his second wife.
President Barack Obama needs to take decisive action in Afghanistan and remind the American public why they are fighting the war he inherited from George Bush.
A super-submarine left over from the Second World War has been found in Hawaii.
Some morbidly overweight people don’t realise they’re obese according to the findings of a new report.
A translation firm is offering prospective parents the chance to check their preferred baby-names don’t mean anything embarrassing in other languages.
President Obama has admitted that the US government will miss the January 2010 deadline for closing Guantanamo Bay.
Jim McManus visited Big Think today to talk about the poker habits of the men who have inhabited the White House. The stories he told come from his new book […]
We criminalize drug addicts in this country. To Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, that would be equivalent to putting someone with Parkinson’s in jail. Drug […]
Later this evening, the literary community finds out whether David Small’s “Stitches” will be the first graphic novel ever to win a National Book Award. This morning, Big Think asked […]
Big Think conducted a special interview today with George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente. As the world’s largest nonprofit health plan and hospital system, Kaiser Permanente is a micro-healthcare system unto […]
The world is on course for a “catastrophic” 6 degrees centigrade rise in temperature, meaning that the worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true.