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Over the last several decades, both through good economic times and bad, the United States has transformed into the planet's undisputed worry champion.
Ask any artist to explain how color works, and they will launch into a treatise about the Three Primary Colors: red, blue, and yellow. This would be wrong, says Jason Cohen.
A very smart statistician has realized that it is possible to sort, with upwards of 90 percent accuracy, the winning scratch tickets from the losing ones before anything is scratched off.
All Americans, not just those in senior governmental positions, could benefit from having the option to watch Al Jazeera English—or at least having the option not to watch it.
An "invisibility cloak" that's able to hide items thousands of times larger than before now exists, scientists say. The cloak works by wrapping light around an object.
Arguably, the U.S. now has a corporate tax code that’s the worst of all worlds. The official rate is higher than in most countries, so enormous time and effort are devoted to finding loopholes.
The Google Art Project offers a new form of collaboration that allows museums to take extraordinary art works beyond their individual homes to create the first global art collection.
Nature is smart, efficient and innovative. That's why scientists and engineers all over the world try to copy it in their labs. The field concerned with imitating nature is called biomimetics.
Seven years before Charles Darwin went public with his evolutionary theories in On the Origin of Species, Herbert Spencer sketched out the basics of evolution and natural selection.
Two management consultants identify four guiding principles successful companies have followed to prepare for a world of constant Internet connectivity.
I didn’t get to watch the livestream of the first half of our Farsight 2011: Beyond The Search Box event today, but the parts I did see were enough to […]
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Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, accuses Bing of using Google data to improve its search results. Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate VP of Core Search Development at Microsoft, claims Bing […]
At Big Think's search event in San Francisco, panelists and presenters talk about how new user interfaces and mobile devices are expanding the web into all aspects of daily life, […]
“The future of search is verbs.” This is what Bill Gates told Esther Dyson over dinner, and what Esther Dyson told us at Big Think’s Google v. Bing/Farsight 2011: Beyond […]
For many Washington, DC readers the upcoming event at the Newseum, co-organized by the School of Communication at American University, is likely to be of strong interest. Details are below […]
Long gone are the days when Clapham was a small, rustic village well beyond the gates of medieval London. Also gone, but less long, is the era of Clapham as […]
Four out of five autism sufferers are male. Are fundamental male-female brain differences causing the gap?
In a panel near the end of Farsight 2011, several panelists spoke about how the sheer quantity of information around us is affecting the way we think — and even how our brains are developing.
In a special presentation at Big Think's Farsight 2011, Ilya Segalovich, co-founder and CTO of Russian search engine Yandex spoke about why his company has been dominant in that country's […]