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This September, I traveled with a group of 20 environmental journalists from around the world to attend the World Climate Conference, in Geneva. The international conference was hosted by the […]
When I began listening to the recorded testimony of Wall Street banking executives to Congress Wednesday on C-Span, I started to feel like I was sitting in a circle at […]
After travelling through China with a local guide who was quite independent and critically minded, reports on the country from reputed American sources like the New York Times began to […]
There has been some pushback about that Nature paper which claimed there's a power-law "signal'' in the seemingly random events of guerrilla wars against standing armies. They really don't like […]
Big Think co-founder Peter Hopkins sat down with bestselling author and urban theorist Richard Florida the other week to talk about the new psyche of the American workforce. Florida sees […]
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Robert Skidelsky appointed to the British Parliament to advise the Queen on matters of high policy, discusses the psychological adjustment America might need to make as it’s superseded by China.
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We’re getting wealthy at the rate that the great economist predicted, but there’s a reason why haven't we traded more consumption for leisure.
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We can’t point the finger at politicians and regulators for this crisis; they never have any ideas of their own, says Lord Robert Skidelsky.
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Robert Skidelsky compares the psychological motivations of savers and investors in the last few years.
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The author of "Keynes: The Return of the Master" says we can attribute the 2008 stimulus package to the great economist.
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A conversation with the author of "Keynes: The Return of the Master"
Barack Obama has launched the first large-scale aid programme in his career as President, pledging the “unwavering support” of America to earthquake-wrecked Haiti on Wednesday.
A Nature Unleashed blogger muses on a recent act of so-called “eco-terrorism” which he says “hit the wrong target” after activists committed arson on allegedly non-eco homes.
A court case against the son of one of New York’s most notorious modern gangsters, John Gotti Junior, has been dropped by prosecutors for the fourth time in a row.
Archaeologists are trying to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images inscribed on a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered at Jamestown, Virginia.
Seven Hindu pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede at a religious festival on the river Ganges in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, according to police officials.
A man has been killed by a great white shark of “dinosaur-like” proportions off a beach near Cape Town, South Africa.
Pope Benedict XVI has opted to turn the other cheek and yesterday met and forgave the woman who attacked him in Rome during Christmas Eve Mass.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy has put his full political backing behind a move to ban the full Islamic veil in the country saying it was “not welcome” for reasons of sexual equality.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been asked to send a letter of apology to the Israeli people for “humiliating them in an unnecessary confrontation with Turkey”.