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A study reports that people think those with similar personality traits look alike and vice versa.
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.
A new study casts doubt on previous research showing that emotional well-being plateaus at an income of $75,000 per year.
'The Broad and Narrow Way' helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
Do you get worried or angry? Ever forget to tithe? One minister has bad news for you.
An information war is being waged.
Another exiting week of commentary. Some real winners this week. Did you make the cut?
Hans Rosling was a physician and statistics superstar who advised world leaders and tech tycoons.
Whereas European countries were once able to tap into their history for subjects for opera, America’s never succeeded in doing the same. That problem comes in part from the decline in opera as a popular, public art form, but also perhaps from the lack of operatically epic subjects to be found in American history. Now, composer David T. Little hopes to create a modern American opera with JFK, a 2-act, 2-hour opera focusing on the life of President John F. Kennedy, whose life and death became defining moments not only for the Baby Boom generation, but also, many would suggest, the hinge upon which all American history turns for the last half century. Set to premier in 2016, JFK as a work-in-progress already raises important questions about how opera (and art in general) can approach history.
Every few months you have an explanation for everything amiss in your life, especially pertaining to technology. Mercury in retrograde has became the default explanation of what’s wrong with our […]
One of the most memorable moments in the HBO film And the Band Played On, honored at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary, is a […]
In a paper released today by Harvard University, I analyze the career of writer-turned-activist Bill McKibben and his impact over the past 20 years on the climate change debate. Below is […]
For readers in the Boston area, I will be giving a talk at Boston University’s College of Communication on Thursday, December 6 The talk is a preview of the […]
Over the last half-century we’ve emphasized physicality over philosophy. Yet a growing contingent of yogis has been asking questions such as: How can we take these ethical, philosophical and moral codes and apply them to our times?
Well, if all you had to go by is tonight’s debate, you’d have to say yes. Romney’s presentations were clearer, tighter, more incisive, more eloquent, more factually detailed, and more […]
Voter turnout in U.S. presidential elections tends to be lower than other developed democracies and relative to the number of eligible voters., Voter turn-out for those ages 18 to 24 […]
Who's right? Digital optimists who view the internet and social media as democratizing political forces, or pessimists who claim that they dumb down political discourse and polarize the electorate?
Tonight’s Republican Presidential Debate at Dartmouth College will feature a pre-debate panel discussion, exclusively co-sponsored by Big Think and Dartmouth College. This discussion will stream LIVE right here at 5pm […]
At ClimateWire today [subscription], Julia Pyper has an article on an important topic: How can scientists and journalists work together to improve public understanding of climate change? What are the […]
In a guest post today, Ashley Brosius a graduate student in my “Science, Environment, and the Media” course this semester discusses the need for greater focus on adaptation policy related […]
Driving or walking down the street to a supermarket is not a problem for the majority of the United States. With this one action, most households are able to purchase […]
Smaller-budget documentaries are increasingly shaping debate over energy issues, writes Michael Nagle in a guest post today. Yet widening the scope of their reach and impact has taken some investment […]
Hillary Clinton, of all people, made my day last week when she said the news in the United States consists of “…a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking […]
Arab cable channels like al Jazeera promotes a pan-Arab identity at the expense of national, or state-centric, political identities. What role has this played in the recent uprisings across the Arab world?
In the final guest post on Colorado’s defeated Amendment 62, a “personhood” initiative that would have given full legal rights to fertilized human eggs, Trina Stout examines the effect of […]
The question of whether a community center that houses a mosque can or should be built a few blocks away from the Ground Zero acreage, in a building most New […]
At ClimateWire, one of the new innovative models for science journalism, Christa Marshall has a great feature on how language will shape the pending political battle over cap and trade […]