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Hollywood is unknowingly helping undiscovered artist
communication between scientists as registered by non-scientist
How many laws in Robert Greene’s “48 Laws of Power” does Leslie Gelb, the former senior Pentagon official, follow or flout?
Gravity may not be a force of attraction, but a 'force' similar to momentum with energy transferred on a subatomic level.
As I predict, Tiger only has 1/50 chance to win PGA. If he cannot improve his Driver, I guarantee no hope for him to win the 2009 PGA. The truth is that simple!
As we've blogged before on Big Think, the state of science savvy in America is pretty sorry. Only about a third of us accept evolution through natural selection, even lower […]
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Jay Smooth reflects on the institutional factors involved in the professor’s apprehension.
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Jay Smooth on sampling and the creative process.
Researchers are learning about the human brain from a system that is more similar to our gray matter than you may think: ant colonies. Just as neurons navigate through your […]
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Jay Smooth discusses the legacy of hip-hop feuds.
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Jay Smooth on whether "player-haters" are really the problem.
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Hip-Hop and the broadening of cultures
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Jay Smooth discusses music and the value of aesthetic expression
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Jay Smooth weighs in on the career prospects of today’s creative class
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Jay Smooth discusses the pleasures of collaborative storytelling and planting one’s own flag online.
When Google unveiled its innovative, if voyeuristic, satellite photo tool to the computer-loving public, it was revolutionary, it was compelling, it was intriguing, it was… a major threat against national […]
In the late nineteenth century, large-scale immigration dramatically increased the population of Buenos Aires. Most migrants were men; one figure even suggests a ratio of ten men for every woman. […]
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The New York Times recently presented an eye-opening graph derived from the American Time Use Survey. This unique project seeks to map out what Americans are doing every day, broken […]