Daniel Honan
Former Managing Editor, Big Think
From 2011-2014, Daniel Honan was the Managing Editor at Big Think. Prior to Big Think, Daniel was Vice President of Production for Plum TV, a niche cable network he helped launch in 2002. The production team he oversaw won over two dozen Emmy awards. Daniel has created numerous shows and documentaries for television, and his film credits include Stealing the Fire, a documentary on the black market for nuclear weapons technology.
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The fabled planetary alignment predicted to occur in 2012 is actually happening right now. Is this a sign of the Apocalypse, or just eye candy for stargazers?
Our government will never pass the burden of proof test concerning the death of Osama bin Laden if there is a general failure to comprehend the nature of evidence.
Larry Flynt is a pioneer of pornography, who has seen it all, and he speaks to Big Think (See the exclusive video) about the nature of truth and the burden of proof in our society today.
Since Dennis Tito became the first space tourist at the beginning of the last decade, the commercial space industry has taken a great leap forward.
Near-Earth Asteroids are a threat to our planet, but they also represent an opportunity to generate enormous wealth, and may drive the commercial space race.
Philosophers may have spent many 'sleepless nights of the soul' contemplating the existence of God. Yet bleary-eyed physicists may have beaten them to the prize: has the so-called 'God particle' been discovered?
As the pace of technology advances and machines begin to more closely resemble humans, should robots be granted legal rights? Some countries are already laying the groundwork.
As the pace of technology advances and machines get smarter, should robots be granted legal rights? Some countries are already laying the groundwork.
Watch the dramatic scene unfold as King Henry hesitates to ponder--or does he?--whether to hang his friend Bardolph, which is given dramatic treatment in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film.
The revolutionary applications of mobile phone technology today are derived from advances that were a long time in the making. This biography of an idea explores key moments in the cell phone's development.
Cell phones are being used in many ways today that transcend their original intended function. Big Think Delphi Fellow Aydogan Ozacan is applying this technology to breakthroughs in medicine.
The Earl of Oxford rears his ugly head again in a major new Hollywood film that claims Shakespeare never wrote a single word.
Why do Shakespeare's plays have such a dramatic impact on readers and audiences? Philip Davis shows how Shakespeare's use of language creates heightened brain activity, or what he calls "a theater of the brain."
NHK Japan and the National Film Board of Canada created this simulation of the effects of a massive asteroid collision with the earth. The effect is terrifying: energy released from […]
Computer software helps prove that Shakespeare was no different than the writers of today's crime scene dramas. He collaborated with other writers.
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