How do you tell a Rembrandt from a non-Rembrandt? Even the experts have been stumped, and they’ve been stumped for centuries since Rembrandt himself passed away. Drawings by Rembrandt and […]
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How will the introduction of e-book devices affect academics and fit into the scholarly ecosystem? And is the book as an artifact dead?
This fall in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
“Would you please turn the lights up,” Robert F Kennedy Jr. asked the stage crew as he took the floor of New York’s Town Hall in Times Square, about to […]
The Queen of England’s husband made a cringe-worthy gaffe at a reception for British Indians.
A gigantic explosion on the edge of the universe has given scientists an insight into the “cosmic dark ages” of 13.7bn years ago.
Last week, in his blog The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan announced that after years of identifying with the conservative movement he is finally “leaving the right.” His decision is of […]
LASIK Surgery Complications LASIK continues to be one of the safest and most effective vision correction procedures available, but still poses some health risks. If the laser beam is not […]
To EU Ambassador John Bruton, the global economic crash may have originated in the U.S., but it cast a harsh light on weaknesses on the entire world’s banking system. He […]
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Research finds that only a few specific ‘friendly bacteria’ actually aid the immune system.
American Today, the weekly newspaper for American University, ran this feature on last week’s AU Forum and public radio broadcast of “The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in […]
Last week, I wrote about the dangers of waiting until the chemicals we are exposed to are conclusively proven to be dangerous before regulating them, especially when most studies on […]
Richard Dawkins is perhaps the world’s preeminent voice in one of our weightiest debates—‘how did we get here?’ So, how does the spearhead of modern atheism feel we are doing […]
As the new year begins, I want to pass along the final part of my personal list of the most interesting essays on political issues from 2009. My selections are […]
As one of my professors used to joke, any field with the word “science” in its name is probably not a science. If you have to explain that what you’re […]
As I wrote yesterday, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has a radical idea for how to make money off of news content online: he wants to charge for it. In […]
Though David Goldhill’s vision of an ideal health care system is far off, it sheds light on important misunderstandings about the current health insurance-based system in the United States.
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New York Times reported today that new technology and generous investments in the early part of the decade have been fueling a good year for the oil industry. Jim Hackett, CEO […]
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards is getting in on the “smart power” bandwagon. It just announced the launch of a new news agency called Atlas to deliver the day’s news. The […]
Research on tech to harvest unlimited sources of energy.
Who says nothing interesting happens in this blogger’s native Nebraska? One of the state’s native species has helped scientists see the secrets of evolution twice in the span of a […]
In 1968, a highly-respected population biologist at Stanford named Paul Ehrlich published a best-selling book called “The Population Bomb,” warning of global famine as the global population grew faster than […]
Let’s hand it to Joe Biden’s savvy press secretary Jay Carney: the guy is EVERYWHERE. There is a full-on media blitz to buff up the veep’s image as he emerges […]
Over the past months, Big Think has talked to several of the leading experts on the Middle East about the potential political implications of Iran going nuclear: Iranian insiders, veteran […]
Some considerations on corruption that emerged on some blogging at Ecademy. Andy at GOOGLE at https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22andres+agostini%22&aq=&oq=&aqi=&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=-Pw1cEIpNGU
What’s better than mimosas with brunch, walks in the park, dinner and a movie, day tripping out of town, reading a good book, and any other fabulous thing you could […]
In Britain this week, the official Chilcot Inquiry into how and why Tony Blair followed George Bush into war in Iraq, has resumed. So far Chilcot has questioned the British Establishment, but new revelations suggest he should cast his net wider.
Molecular biologist and biotechnology researcher Lee Silver says scientists in his field can’t catch a break. There is something about the study and manipulation of living things that sets off […]