GroundReport‘s CEO comes to the Big Think studio today to discuss all things related to the hyperlocal world of citizen journalism. Post your questions for Ms. Sterne here. Prior to […]

Statistician extraordinaire Hans Rosling is back on the presentation circuit with data that suggests reorienting the debate over the success of AIDS prevention could be a wise next move. Unveiling […]

Etched deep into the DNA of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora is a boundless sense of economic entitlement. Such has consistently been the world’s criticism of the west for months now. Some […]

China ranks first, and India comes in a close second. This is how we have long imagined Asia’s two largest countries in all of their superlative categories. However, in a […]

By outlining his near and long-term legislative priorities in a publication read by graying intellectuals and Left Bank expatriates, Arlen Specter may have been trying to tell us something. His […]

Thinking people intolerant of network television newscasting have sought refuge in PBS for generations. Now public television’s flagship news program, NewsHour, is going 2.0. Among the changes set for September […]

Is it possible for blogs to operate without the snark and juvenile potshots that have come to characterize online communication? Probably not, but that hasn’t stopped 15 Congressmen from attempting […]

Rarely has a non-descript box beside your TV been the source of such heated division. While the DVR has provided great convenience for TV viewers unable to watch their favorite […]

In keeping with the notion that alcohol allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things, there is evidence to suggest alcohol can also help creative people find their spark…if they’re lucky […]

Last week Amazon released their new electronic reader, the Kindle DX. With a larger screen and a price tag $130 more than its predecessor, the Kindle DX is positioned to […]

This week BMW and ad agency GSD&M revealed a campaign for the automaker’s new Z4 sports car. “An Expression of Joy” is maybe the first campaign this year that makes […]

If the fine art photography scene is experiencing a rough market, the situation for photojournalists is certainly not far behind. Seems strange at a time when so many ground-breaking stories […]

The forecast for art and culture is partly cloudy this week at Big Think. On one hand the news is grim. Independent films are seeing dark days. Broadway is slashing […]

Human hearing picks up only a limited range of frequencies, and that range diminishes as we age and our ears deteriorate—just think of the high-frequency cellphone rings that high school […]

The destination par excellence for gut-busting dinners and slippery morning-after scrambles has needed to refoot for difficult times. Denny’s found the needed salvation for their afterhours business model in the […]

In answer to their own economic crisis, the French have taken up “bossnapping.” Maybe you should give it a try. Here’s how it works: An executive of a company, perhaps […]

The future of the advertising has been debated ad infinitum. But as we craft a blueprint for its future, we must consider which media are the strongest to carry ads, […]

It’s not exactly the U.N. Security Council, but by every measure, it could be more cutthroat. If Hulu can bring together the mouse, the peacock, and Rupert Murdoch, is there […]

Senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, Houman Shabab, has some second thougts on Howard Sosin’s alternative plan to restructure banks in America. * Howard Sosin proposes a […]

Everyone knows that Didier Grossemy is the strongest digital evangelist of all when it comes to marketing communications. Yet one of the highest current hype in the market place is […]