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Though nearly every university has a women's studies department, the lack of men's studies in a time of declining male performance is an issue some professors are confronting.
What moves the world and its institutions are highly changeable emotions of groups of individuals, not rational decision making, says author and sociologist John Casti.
West Philadelphia high school has entered two cars into the X-Prize competition which requires production-ready models that get over 100 miles per gallon.
Once a darling of the left, Christopher Hitchens turned to support neo-conservative foreign policy and has written a new memoir about his political evolution.
Historical perversions and obfuscating euphemisms have the support of the Texas school book board which is seeking to tell an especially politicized version of history.
Adding nanoparticles to water increase its thermal conductivity, or its ability to take heat away from something, which could save the world a significant amount of electricity.
In an exhibition currently at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, a crane reaches into a mountain of clothes and pulls out at random a selection of shirts, […]
How can scientists be religious? How has religion evolved, according to science? In a special series this week, Big Think rounds up a learned cast of thought leaders—from a computer […]
New York’s excerpt of literary agent Bill Clegg’s memoir has the rush and pull of Jay McInernery’s Bright Lights, Big City. McInerney was celebrated for placing his action in the […]
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Industrialism taught us how to be wasteful of material and human resources. We need to get out of this mess.
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Jane Jacobs once said: "When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave." New York doesn’t have to worry.
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Our geography is an economic and political geography. It’s a geography of class, it’s a geography of political partisanship, and it’s a geography of anger. That "worries the heck" out […]
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Whether it’s in service, creative fields, or agriculture, people deserve work that’s meaningful, pays well and uses their skills.
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Richard Florida worries about the notion that you can rebuild Detroit around an urban farm. Why would you turn a great city into a cornfield?
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Forget the "American Dream" for home ownership. We need a system for a 21st Century that fits our flexible and mobile economy.
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The U.S. hasn't been making much of the possibilities brought by the downturn—but most other countries have been doing even less.
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A conversation with the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
A doctor who touched off a worldwide panic over an alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism has been barred from practicing medicine over unethical research practices. Britain's General […]
As media and communication technology continue to evolve, the question on everyone's minds is how do we harness this innovation and its capacity to improve lives, foster social good and […]
The words "packet switching" don't mean much to many people. But for Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, packet switching is what ultimately gave him the title, "Father […]