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Spare some change? This past Thursday, the New York Times ran a special section on giving, the big front page story of which was all about giving small. You know, […]
"You Better Not Cry" author Augusten Burroughs treats fans to a second Big Think interview this week, just in time for the holiday season. Famous since his 2001 bestseller "Running […]
An underwater photographer was shocked when a leopard seal tried to feed him a live penguin.
An anti-depressant pill is being hailed as the “female Viagra” after the drug was proven to boost women’s flagging sexual drives.
Research on chimpanzees suggests that human language has its roots in the gestural hand communications of our primate ancestors.
Social-networking site Facebook is increasingly being used as a tool for thieves to target people – but also for cops to catch them red handed.
After Israel released photographs claiming to prove Iran was importing weapons to Hezbollah militia, Iranian news agencies have retorted claiming the images were forged.
Should archaeological artifacts remain in the country in which they were found – or does the law of “finder’s keepers” prevail?
The authorities in India’s Andrah Pradesh have launched an investigation after six new-born babies died in a hospital over the weekend.
Is Lang Lang the most popular pianist on the planet? CNN talks to China’s biggest prodigy a year after he took to the world’s stage.
The police reportedly suggested that gay a gay teenager brutally murdered in Puerto Rico deserved what he got due to his “type of lifestyle”.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi tried to convert 500 “attractive girls” to Islam in Rome yesterday.
Maybe everyone else already knows this, but I was stunned to learn that an utterly pedestrian detail -- the reliability of translation services -- has hurt America's efforts to negotiate […]
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Immigration Law Expert Lenni Benson explores the fate of children who are brought to the US—either by a family member or a smuggler—and whether they should be forgiven their "illegal" […]
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Harvard Psychologist and Education Expert Howard Gardner explains the importance of targeting education outreach to the specific needs of individual communities.
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Farrow insists it is necessary for people to acknowledge and own up to our capacity to do terrible things to each other.
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Farrow, who has traveled extensively as an ambassador for child’s rights, confesses that she no longer cares about an acting career.
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Farrow, adoptive mother of fifteen, discusses how central a role adults can play in the lives of children.
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Other authors fret about the impact of the Web, but Augusten Burroughs "would not want to even be alive" without it.