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People see what their tools let them see. Case in point: How different the world looks when it's mapped according to unfamiliar principles. Even more striking than a reverse-pole map […]
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The field of economics will likely witness a wildly new approach to the notion of scarcity in the coming years, a good thing believes the Nobel Prize winner—but first let’s […]
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Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics, yet Paul Krugman, another laureate, has confessed to never having encountered her work. Here she explains how we can move past […]
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The Nobel-prize winning economist argues that, contrary to the widespread theory, with the right governance, humans are likely to forge peaceful solutions to coping with resource scarcity.
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If given the opportunity to sit down with anybody, Elinor Ostrom would meet the late labor economist John Commons, who linked the individual’s rights with their responsibilities.
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For Elinor Ostrom, the path to the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was fraught with challenges, but a commitment to great work and a group of rare friends, proved the […]
It’s startling to think that a six-foot one-inch, 230-pound football star can be undone by 140 little characters, but that’s exactly what happened to Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry […]
An anti-toxin that protects people against ricin poisoning is about to go into production for the first time.
Senior executives at Blackwater Worldwide bribed Iraqi officials with around $1m to silence them after civilian deaths.
Chinese state media have reported chaos in Beijing after scientists artificially induced the region’s second fake snow storm.
A prominent professor punched a female university employee in the face during an argument about race relations.
Staff at a New Zealand aquarium were astonished to find baby sharks spilling from a wound in a female school shark’s stomach after she was bitten by another shark.rn
Former astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty to burglary and misdemeanor battery in an attack against a love rival.
Brazil’s major cities were plunged into darkness last night after a large scale power outage.
The hottest toy to hit the shops this Christmas looks like a cross between a hamster and a Furby.
Brooklyn band Vampire Weekend has disappointed Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries by revealing that their new album “Contra” is named after a video game.
A group of NASA engineers have perfected a replicating machine that resembles something out of Star Trek.
There are only a few careers that can be launched over a campfire in a New Hampshire artist colony. Luckily for Jonathan Ames, storytelling is among them. Though--as the author, […]
Today, and over the next two days, Big Think will be posting a series of videos called "What Do Women Really Want?" Of course, there is not just one answer […]