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When the atheists are not busy worshiping their various pagan celebrity gods, they turn to their supreme ruler: REASON.
Apparently the evidence of design is all around us, I just don't see it.
Everything has become so very complicated these days. Complexity, if the leader is to be truly successful and sustainably successful in increasingly amorphous, re-adaptable, uncharted waters, he must understand complexity multidimensionally.
From the very beginning the unruly Christian sect of Jews were to eradicate all history of other monism faiths.
If you didn’t know about the magnitude of the Google Library Project, you’re not alone. In 1994, Google began approaching major libraries offering to digitize their stacks with an eye […]
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The jackpot drawing for tonight's Mega Millions multi-state lottery is a whopping $333 million, the second largest prize in North American lottery history. The ticket is $1. Should you buy […]
In the raging debate over healthcare here in the U.S., there is one point on which everybody, from Newt Gingrich to Barack Obama, seems to agree: We should be spending […]
Hooman Majd, journalist and author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, understands Iran more than almost anyone in the U.S. journalism circuit. A Western-educated descendant of an ayatollah, Majd has […]
Noam Chomsky, longtime chronicler of the gap between political bombast and legislative boorishness, recently sat down with Big Think to discuss a variety of issues, from his thoughts on Obama, […]
In the 1999 film Three Kings, cited by President Bill Clinton as one of his favorites, a small group of rogue American soldiers attempt to loot Saddam Hussein’s Iraq of […]
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Jonathan Zittrain discusses the role that a common breed of junk mail plays in determining the actual price of stocks.
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A discussion with the professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
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The Professor of Law reflects on the potential wonders and horrors of our techno-driven future.
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Google's threat to exit China, due in part to severe government censorship, indicates yet another failure of state officials to grapple with unprecedented complexities of regulating the internet.
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A Harvard Law Professor explains the potential underbelly of technological convenience—an unshakable, and often citizen-enforced, system of surveillance.
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Jonathan Zittrain discusses the prospect of an "anchor point" in cyberspace.
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Jonathan Zittrain examines the privacy issues surrounding the world’s largest social media site, highlighting how we can protect personal data and even control the fate of worrisome photos.
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Are booms and busts simply part of American life? Justin Fox of Time says that may be the case, but explains how the U.S. can learn from other countries to […]
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A conversation with the business and economics columnist at Time Magazine.