Innovative startups are using virtual worlds like Second Life and Twinity as virtual classrooms for people to learn new skills and languages. Could this one day replace brick-and-mortar classrooms?
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It’s that time again – the annual making of New Year resolutions. We all do it. A well thought out list of good intentions that we will execute faithfully on […]
According to psychologist Dan Ariely, Google’s policy of giving employees free reign over 20% of their work week – one full day out of five – makes for happier, more […]
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Since March of this year, a series of extraordinary paper sculptures has appeared in various locations around Edinburgh, Scotland. Each location is a library or other institution devoted to the […]
From beating hearts to breathing lungs, livers to fallopian tubes, the list of organs replicated in miniature form using microchip technology is growing, revolutionizing how drugs are tested.
After spending years building robots at MIT’s Media Lab and doing stints at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Heather Knight is now a PhD student in social robotics at Carnegie Mellon. […]
Peter Diamandis is one of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. Creator of the X-Prize Foundation and other companies, he is optimistic about the current direction of business.
Over the past couple of days as the international media has once again focused on the bloody fighting in Sanaa, they have invariably asked themselves, Yemenis, and outside observers the […]
The USB stick in your hand contains a zip file with your genome on it. You insert the drive into the side of your computer and click the button on the screen that says “Upload.” The machine spits out a prognosis. The secret to your very own personal happiness.
U.S. scientists say they have developed an on-off memory switch that helped laboratory rats remember a behavior that they had forgotten. The research could benefit those with brain injuries.
BY JASON SILVA “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” –Alphonse de Lamartine, French romantic poet. PART I: DREAMING WITH […]
Big Think’s Chief Economist Daniel Altman examines the origins of the Euro Zone and some of the inherent challenges it faces.
“All of the cells in the body have this potential to make other kinds of cells. This has led to the discovery of human embryonic stem cells and other stem cells, which we’d now like to use to replace tissue and body parts,” says Dr. Douglas Melton.
Promiscuity in US high schools is at a twenty year low and teen birth rates have fallen by over one third from 1991 through to 2009. So why is it […]
Even though it’s beneficial for the US to cooperate with the Chinese wherever and whenever possible, we must have the confidence and will to compete with them in markets where we can press our advantage and fortify our own economy.
–Guest post by American University graduate student Laila Yette. Through the use of sites like Facebook and Twitter, President Obama’s 2008 campaign changed the way that we view social media […]
Over the past two or three weeks I have noticed something really interesting. I got in contact with or read about at least six startups that were all working on […]
An entertaining read about self-help author Timothy Ferriss, who urges the would-be New Rich to check e-mail no more than twice a day and set automated “unavailable” responses.
The explosive growth of the micro-blogging service’s global popularity is emblematic of a trend affecting the entire internet: it’s becoming less American, and less Anglophone.
You listen in on a conversation among your conservative friends. “You know what I HATE,” says Rick. “I hate the government telling me what to do. I hate them […]
Now that the silly season of American politics revs up for another presidential election, it’s a fair question to ask who will be the next great caricature? Nixon cast his […]
Looking forward to the end of the world requires a divorce not only from reality, but from the awe that our infinitesimal place within it inspires.
The second dip of the worldwide recession is a bit like that scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, where two guards stupidly stare at a horseless knight approaching in the […]
Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth. In the same way, it might be quaint one day to believe that everything once revolved around the PC rather than the mobile device.
Want to build a strong and sustainable business, political movement, or religion? According to John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, the wise leader follows the example of one of the most ancient cultures on Earth: yogurt.
While I voted yesterday, I thought about the Occupy movement. As I cast a “yes” ballot for the right to buy alcoholic beverages on Sundays at package shops in John’s […]
“Our blacks are so much better than their blacks. To become a black Republican, you don’t just roll into it. You’re not going with the flow…” Ann Coulter on the […]
–Guest post by Andrea Garvue, American University graduate student. In 2004, Rescue Me on the FX Network provided the United States with its first taste of the entertainment industry’s take […]
Benetton’s controversial new “Unhate” ad campaign, which features pictures of world leaders like Barack Obama and China’s Hu Jintao caught in a liplock, actually raises a thought-provoking question: Is it […]
Let’s inject a little lifeblood into the 2012 presidential race.