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One evening last week I attended Tech Night at my daughter's elementary school. Sponsored by the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), it's an evening designed to bring parents of the school's […]
In many areas of the increasingly networked global economy the middleman is more in demand than ever.
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Economist and Author Daniel Altman explains why middlemen are thriving in the global economy.
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Economist and Author Daniel Altman explains why middlemen are thriving in the global economy.
Based on current discovery rates, we will have discovered thousands of exoplanets by 2020. But how can we concentrate on habitable ones? One astrobiologist proposes a unique solution.
The abundance of oil in the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, might fill state and private coffers but will the profit come at the expense of sustainable environmental policies?
Having a space vehicle capable of launching humans into orbit, and beyond, remains the gold standard among the international space community. For the moment, only Russia has that.
To most journalists, a good story is defined in large measure by how much attention it will get. A story that makes page one, or leads the newscast, is […]
Nobody’s so politically correct as to be offended by Happy Thanksgiving. From a merely historical point of view, maybe we should be more sensitive.
The Amwell Township of western Pennsylvania sits on one of the world's largest natural gas reserves. But are the political benefits of mining natural gas worth the human costs?
Ahead of a U.N. climate conference, another large cache of emails stolen from climate scientists has been published. Where does such fervent doubt over climate change come from?
I’m eager to join in the “Which five books on a desert island?” game suggested by Big Think editor Dan Honan in a recent post. As a blogger, would-be critic, […]
While America has always led the world in supporting new entrepreneurs and launching innovative new companies, the democratization of the Internet over the past decade means that we are all […]
I love Rockwell’s rendering of the Thanksgiving feast. Three generations circle the food—a nuclear family more rarely seen today in person, but still existing in our hearts and minds in modern permutations.
As promised earlier, here's a full wrap-up of my weekend attending Skepticon IV in Springfield, Missouri. I really have to give tons of credit to the organizers, who not only […]
A couple of months ago, physicists at CERN, Switzerland, claimed they had found a fatal flaw in Einstein's theory of relativity. Their findings immediately lit up the Internet with activity, […]
Last year Americans spent more money during Black Friday Weekend than the GDP of North Korea. Larry Summers argues America needs to save, while other countries, like China, need to spend, in order to increase global prosperity.
The crowd surges around you, lurching forward in one overpowering swell. There’s panting and shoving, sharp elbows and raised voices, clawing and tearing, frenzied looks and frazzled nerves. Light blaring […]
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The President of Human Capital at Mercer, a global consulting firm, discusses one of the most interesting findings of the firm's international "Inside Employees' Minds" survey.
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The whole process of how we design and create future generations is changing. Your grandchildren, maybe your children, maybe even you, are going to reproduce differently than your grandparents did.