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A conversation with the Director of the Center for SETI Research.
Charlie Riedel of the Associated Press deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the oil-slicked pelicans of the Louisiana coast. It would be an unconventional choice. Human subjects have […]
The defining image of the BP oil spill is a suspiciously low resolution video feed from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The much maligned Huffington Post seems to […]
When it comes to business sustainability, do we need top-down or bottom-up approaches? Erik Rasmussen, CEO of the think tank Monday Morning and founder of the Copenhagen Climate Council, believes […]
Geoff Jones, a Harvard Business School professor, knows everything there is to know about mascara. He's an expert on the beauty industry, a sector that dates back to ancient civilization. […]
We live in an intriguing era of self-disclosure. Tonight, in New York City, the World Science Festival features a panel discussion called Strangers in the Mirror: "What’s it like to […]
"Intuition can help us make good decisions without expending the time and effort needed to calculate the optimal decision, but shortcuts sometimes lead to dead ends," says The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The L.A. Times comes out swinging against baseball's "halfhearted embrace of technology". The Galarraga case sparks new calls for technology to double-check humans.
One of the world's foremost art collectors, Charles Saatchi famously refuses to be interviewed, but here he answers some questions put to him via email by The Daily Beast.
Movie violence against women has long been a staple of mainstream film-making but is becoming ever more forensically detailed, claims a troubled Natasha Walter.
Michael J. Formica says taking personal responsibility is essential in overcoming addiction but systems like AA allow its abdication.
Corruption slang can sound cute in foreign tongues. Euphemisms may belittle cross-border bribes but they are still illegal, warn James G. Tillen and Sonia M. Delmans.
Cleopatra is the selling point but the resurrection of a long-lost world is the strength of a powerful new exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
As India wrestles with the politically-sensitive question of including caste in its 2011 census, P. Sainath looks at a once strong anti-caste reform movement.
What should happen to the former Stasi HQ? How much of a glimpse into history, and whose interpretation of it, should it offer?
Mass shootings are mercifully rare in Britain. “Gunman goes on killing spree” is a newspaper headline that one might expect to read every ten years or so. But none of […]
As advice columnists go, Emiy Yoffe of "Dear Prudence" is usually relatively compassionate. Today, however, Prudie was shockingly cruel to a young woman* grieving the loss of her best friend: […]
The official unemployment rate remains almost 10%. That in itself is nearly as high as it has been since the early 80s and is plenty bad enough. But it nevertheless […]
Astronomer Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, stopped by Big Think today to talk about the question she's spent her career trying to answer: Is there intelligent life on […]
When designer Katie Salen was teaching at the University of Texas a decade ago, she came upon a novel teaching method while trying to help her students understand online interfaces […]