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We've been reading a lot lately about the rediscovered remnants of the Pink and White Terraces (also known as Te Tarata and Otukapurangi) near Mt. Tarawera in New Zealand, but […]
This week, Al Jazeera English has launched a major advertising campaign branded, "Demand Al Jazeera in the USA," to stir public demand for access to the cable news channel. What […]
What is the language switch? It's like feeling that unexpectedly, you have a button in your brain. When you push it you can get thoughts straight to your target language.
With AT&T announcing its free mobile to mobile calls to help fend off customers defecting for the iPhone on Verizon’s network, it’s time to recognize that voice is now worthless.
According to United Press International, Russian scientists say there’s the chance that a 900-foot asteroid could cause a global cataclysm in a little over twenty years.
Women have a stronger genetic predisposition to help other people compared with men, according to a study that has found a link between genes and the tendency to be "nice".
Sex and violence are intertwined in mice. A tiny patch of cells in a male's brain determines whether it fights or mates—humans are likely to possess a similar circuitry.
Scientists have confirmed an axiom of teenage life: Kids intent on climbing the social ladder at school are more likely to pick on their fellow students.
With protests against regimes in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, the West fears a new era of Islamic political power in the Middle East. There are four reasons it shouldn't.
Lately, both American and British policy makers have been thinking about how to bring some of the competitive discipline of the market to government programs.
Confidential cables disclose that U.S. diplomats were convinced by a Saudi expert that the reserves of world's biggest oil exporter have been overstated by nearly 40%.
Brilliant improvisers, entrepreneurs don't start out with concrete goals. Instead, they constantly assess how to use their personal strengths and resources they have at hand.
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Companies that will win at search are those that successfully deal with the problem of fixed costs, said Thiel in his keynote address at Big Think's Farsight 2011 forum.
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The actor and Internet entrepreneur shares insights from his grandfather James Rouse's career as a pioneering urban planner—insights that are relevant to all leaders.
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Twenty years into his acting career, Norton still feels like an "idiot" and a "fraud" whenever he begins a new project. This sensation is similar to what all innovators face, […]
What's the matter with social psychology? Everybody in social science (including social psychology itself) has a diagnosis, because everybody thinks something is amiss ("it's a terrible field," an anthropologist once […]
If you only read one piece about Scientology, make it Lawrence Wright’s in this week’s New Yorker. Wright’s book The Looming Towertold the story of how we arrived at 9/11, […]
After saying something really controversial like Tea Partiers aren't Fascists, I thought it safer to return to a relatively trans-partisan commentary on a good movie. This is part of my […]
Autism science is making great strides, but it may never yield a single cure because autism is likely not one disorder but many.
How the divide in wealth between the rich and the poor is being maintained through marriage.