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Mourn for a day. Think Different for the rest of your life. That's the only thing I can think of. I'm still speechless at the news that Steve Jobs has passed […]
The European banking system is in worse condition than America's banks were in 2008 or are now. Dexia is single bank needing a $238.9 billion infusion.
If past trends are any guide, this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature will go to a post-postmodern Francophone novelist from a forgotten duchy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And yet partisans […]
The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, October 7th. Last week, a former Norwegian prime minister ignited speculation about this year's winner by announcing, "It will be an interesting and very important prize ... I think it will be well-received."
So the Big Think's AGE OF ENGAGEMENT is advertising a showing of Carl Sagan's hugely influential film CONTACT. The film will be shown, appropriately enough, as an excellent example of how […]
Three astrophysicists who discovered that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate, rather than decelerating, have won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.
Want to build a strong and sustainable business, political movement, or religion? According to John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, the wise leader follows the example of one of the most ancient cultures on Earth: yogurt.
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According to John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, just as a dollop of yogurt introduced into a jug of milk will transform the whole jug, a star employee or […]
Big Think's newest blogger and atheist-in-residence, Adam Lee, asks magician and author Penn Jillette how he reconciles his atheism with his libertarian philosophy.
Readers in the Washington, DC area may be interested in this free event coming up at American University on Thurs. Oct. 27 and sponsored by the School of Communication. A […]
Despite a dwindling budget, N.A.S.A. is planning ahead for missions to the moon, an asteroid or Mars by engineering a habitat suitable for astronauts on long-distance missions.
Compared with the Chinese who are developing space-based solar power, the United States does not have a long-range national space strategy or direction, and desperately needs one.
A revolutionary spaceship that that travels at 2,200 miles per hours would allow vacationers to reach any destination in less than two hours. It could become a fixture in the skies.
Any long-distance interstellar travel will span generations which means humans must find ways to procreate in space. Gravity is essential to the healthy development of our bodies.
The genetic mutation that drives evolution is random. But here's a list of some beneficial mutations that are known to exist in human beings
Welcome, all, to the new Daylight Atheism! I'm pleased to be officially joining Big Think as a blogger-in-residence. Whether you've just come across this site or are a long-time reader […]
--Guest post by Jan Lauren Boyles, American University doctoral student. Eloquent eulogies have wistfully mourned the Ghosts of Journalism Past – the muckrakers, the ink-stained wretches and the shoe-leather reporters. The […]
Can husbands and wives write financial contracts to reduce the level of infidelity in a relationship? Evidence from the unlikely source of Ugandan marriage contracts suggests that they can. In […]
Elon Musk is an advocate for interplanetary life, which will require great leaps in technology. According to Musk, the grand challenge is to "find a Moore's Law of space." In other words, we must think exponentially if we are to colonize another planet.