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Currently a Boeing 747 gets 0.2 miles per gallon; a more aerodynamic plane would reduce drag as it cruises through the air and increase lift, which translates to better fuel economy.
With WikiLeaks' next release targeting Bank of America, traders fear a subprime lending scandal will be exposed. The Daily Beast talks with someone who has read the leaked files.
Many in China and elsewhere believe the U.S. economy is too sick to be cured. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees but says recovery requires some unpalatable medicine.
In recent studies, subjects who were first shown comedy film clips were able to solve more puzzles faster than those who had been shown tragic or boring clips.
You can always count on the MoMA for two things: high-concept theme shows and high-concept theme shows that go in directions you didn’t expect. On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth […]
Having spent over seven years as a member of the cast of the NBC sitcom "The Office," Rainn Wilson is known almost universally for his role as egomaniac Dwight Schrute. […]
Metropolis, Illinois, a tiny town with a grand name, is a distant echo of this area's planned greatness
It is the perfect time for teenagers who love writing, and writers, to have an outlet for their creativity: they are, or soon will be, reading Salinger in class, and […]
Feminist attorney Jill Filipovic takes a closer look at the sex crime allegations against Julian Assange of wikileaks. I think the post strikes exactly the right balance between being skeptical […]
In Big Think's series "How to Write Great Fiction," 12 celebrated authors give writing tips. Now see how well you know each writer's work and style.
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Young people need to look at the world in a fresh new way and say: "Enough is enough, you guys screwed it up, we need to take our planet back."
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Ricky Gervais was able to capitalize on a generational shift with an understanding that so much of the comedy is not set up, set up, punch line. It really is […]
Last summer I described how psychologists at Rutgers closed the usual gap between higher boys' and lower girls' scores on high-school chemistry tests. When the students used a textbook whose […]
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"You have to really key into what the other person you’re acting with is saying and how they’re saying it, and react in the moment to what is going on," […]
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The actor grew up a member of the Baha’i faith, and "soaked in all kinds of different beliefs." He lost himself in his career when he was younger, but then […]
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The actor says he would hire his TV alter-ego "in a heartbeat," because Dwight would do anything. "I could hire him for any job imaginable and he would morph himself […]
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I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh," says Wilson. "That can help bring families together ... it puts a smile on their face, […]
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Technology, like anything else that mankind creates, is a tool that can be used for good or for evil. It's supposed to bring people together and make life easier—but it […]
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People have trouble living creatively when they don’t know who they are or what they’re about. The best thing to do if you're blocked is to make radical changes and […]