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Radio1Haiti DJ Carel Pedré, 29, has broadcast an account of the devastating earthquake that rocked the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday leaving tens of thousands dead.
The chatter in the media these past few days seems to have borne out a W.E.B. DuBois observation -- "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the […]
Of course you are: and you're in luck. In his Big Think interview this week, power and strategy expert Robert Greene ("The 48 Laws of Power," "The 50th Law") shares coolheaded, […]
You have probably been annoyed by how expensive and frustrating it can be to get health care. But you may also, like many people, assume that's the way health care […]
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Duke University Professor David Schanzer says President Obama has largely maintained the Bush administration's anti-terrorism tactics and personnel.
Ron Bluntschli, an American who works with Haitian farmers through the organization Beyond Borders, told me this story years ago: "When I lived in the country there was a family […]
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Communities that allow self-expression will gain an entrepreneurial edge.
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Companies need to provide something more than a cool work environment to attract the new creative class.
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Mass-production institutions have been broken for a generation now. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix them?
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Why the local programs and approaches developed by Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Cory Booker should be models for the rest of the world.
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The theorist of the "creative class" explains how the economic crisis has provided an "inflection point" that will generate a new class of thinkers.
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Our challenge is to improve the quality of service workers, says Richard Florida. Only then will we elevate jobs and create livelihoods for people.
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From hostile physicists to commenters who think they know more about string theory than Nobel laureates, Peter Woit describes the weird world of science blogging.
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Peter Woit believes that mathematicians and scientists are led astray by seeking "elegant" solutions. But there is one theorem that makes him wax poetic.
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Physics is as vulnerable to fads and politics as other disciplines. Math avoids the same fate by being content to stay "completely useless."
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Peter Woit explains the "deep relation" between the two disciplines and the most mind-bending new ways in which that relation is being explored.
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What is the elusive particle that scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider will shed light on? Why does it matter? And what about those black hole rumors?
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The "Not Even Wrong" author explains one of physics’ most famous theories—and why it may have led thousands of scientists down a cold trail.
When it comes to improving overall quality of life, few people pay much attention to the simplest of social graces. Sure, there are plenty of annoying, rude gestures plaguing practically […]
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A conversation with the mathematical physicist at Columbia University.