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The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has failed to appear in court in The Hague charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Drivers in Dallas have been being illegally ticketed by police officers for not speaking English.
The super rich could evolve into a different species from the poor, according to American futurologist Paul Saffo.
The mantis shrimp’s capability to see a wider color spectrum than a human’s could inspire a new generation of DVD player, scientists have found.
A leader of Bosnia’s dwindling Jewish community has published a book celebrating the many Serbs, Croats and Muslims who helped Bosnian Jews during the holocaust.
A school in China has outraged critics by teaching its pupils to salute every passing car on their way to school.
Now that the US has an African American president what does civil rights activist Booker T. Washington still offer?
Is signing a petition a public act or a secret ballot? And should signatories be subject to exposure?
Richard Dawkins is perhaps the world’s preeminent voice in one of our weightiest debates—‘how did we get here?’ So, how does the spearhead of modern atheism feel we are doing […]
The big news about yesterday’s extraordinary 350.org call for climate action, staged in more than 180 countries, was not that activists rallied in scuba gear underwater at Australia’s Great Barrier […]
Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski called this week for the agency to formally adopt a set of rules governing access to the Internet. The proposed rules are meant to […]
Are you a writer with a green cause? Then you probably shouldn’t bother applying for Columbia University’s 2-year Earth & Environmental Science Journalism Master’s Degree (EESJ) this winter. It doesn’t […]
I can't blog forthrightly about the remote-control assassinations detailed this week in The New Yorker without first alerting readers to my bias -- a bias that's more about pragmatism and […]
After the Office of the President went eight years without tackling many of our contemporary crises, there’s a lot to be done. It makes you wish Hillary had won and […]
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Richard Dawkins sees the career of a scientist as a colorful and incredibly creative enterprise—akin, in many ways, to the highest poetry and most imaginative art.
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Big Think sits down with the former Oxford professor and author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
The challenges of running multiple foundations as well as a looming sense of inefficiency troubles the legendary scientist’s sleep.
Aside from Darwin, the famed biologist is also an admirer of Carl Sagan, Alfred Russell Wallace, and Shakespeare.
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While many in the scientific community are excited at the prospect of battling aging, Richard Dawkins considers the idea foolish and a little presumptuous asking, are we really prepared to […]
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Though Richard Dawkins has earned fame for explicating the human past, what currently excites him most in science is the prospect of a future where accessing one’s genetic information is […]