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Whatever the mania, you can be certain that credentialed egg-heads, professional do-gooders, and compulsive busy-bodies will claim access should be curtailed, controlled or even cut off, “for the children.”
Some students take the position that the best way to change an organization is from the inside. Therefore, going to work for a company that, for instance, produces tobacco products, is the best way to affect change.
An intriguing piece of research has added an unexpected category of things that evolution may have taught us, down in our DNA, to be afraid of. Plants.
We all know Rockwell’s Freedom from Want by heart, even if we don’t know its title.
Guest post by Kevin Flora(Cross post from kevinflora.com) Forrest Gump (1994) provides an interesting and unexpected viewpoint of his exercise routine. He runs… to run. He is not looking to […]
There are seven billion of us now and contrary to the evening news we all get along, kind of.
Michael Gazzaniga: Scientists we sometimes get annoyed with, but not science.
Embracing messiness and understanding that it is a contribution to the creative process is something that writers and creative types have got to cultivate.
Malcolm Gladwell: It drives me crazy when people in the technological sphere inflate the importance of the kind of tinkering they do with these sort of software gadgets that they come up with.
Malcolm Gladwell: I don’t know why we run from explanations of success that include a healthy dose of serendipity.
We always fall back on this notion that the rest of the world is somehow the way that we are.
Michael Gazzaniga: Why does the human always seem to like fiction? Could it be that it prepares us for unexpected things that happen in our life?
Robert Thurman: Everybody has a Buddha in there and Buddhas have more fun.
Scientists are unsure whether a coronal mass ejection from the sun - pictured here - took the sungrazing comet out.
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People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]
Learning faster is becoming more and more important, and we simply learn faster in cities than we could on our own.
This is the question the Supreme Court will ask in a few months when it hears oral argument in two cases it agreed to consider today. Both cases involve a […]
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There's an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]
Countries like Finland, South Korea and Poland got smarter not by spending more money or creating more tests. The children learned how to think, and to thrive in the modern economy.
When the President gives a speech today, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Big Think, "you might hear the pundits tearing it down before he even finishes the speech."