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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

What did we really accomplish with the Digital TV initiative?
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Winstead: "Funny is like sushi—do you like sushi, or do you not like sushi?"
Help China solve their growth problems in exhcange for U.S. debt relief...
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"The thing I find incredibly awesome about the internet is that it...weeds out the complainers."

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Though some broadcasters are taking investigative journalism seriously again, the "Fright Wing" still holds America's attention.
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Comedians are asking questions that the media had ceased to ask.
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The comedienne remembers feeling almost as though Americans were paid off to elect Bush.
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It was important to the comedienne that  mainstream media be critiqued, not just news-makers.
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Her center’s research enables donors to maximize social good.
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A conversation with the Executive Director for the Center of High Impact Philanthropy.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments explains his new company, which is bringing insurance to the poor.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments on the benefits of his strategic partnership with CGI.
Written by: Susan Benesch For more, please visit: www.globalmedialaw.com
When it comes to Iranian culture, snowboarding doesn't generally come to mind. But in a country that has remained largely enigmatic for three decades, the slopes near Tehran have become […]
No longer merely a shepherd for generational rebellion, the music industry has transmogrified into a champion of societal decadence and just about anything for a buck.
Despite being left out of the main competition at Cannes, Iranian cinema was recently championed as "alive and successful" by officials at the Farabi Cinematic Foundation, an affiliate of the […]