Search
4mins
There may be more similarities between ants colonies and human societies than there are between ants and primates. That's is because ants, like humans, can have societies in the millions.
4mins
Wasn’t the first guy who ever held meat over a fire experimenting with his food? That turned out all right.
4mins
The common belief that searing a steak will "lock in the juices" has been debunked by food scientists, yet some chefs persist in this practice.
3mins
Because of molecular gastronomists, we have learned more about making food in the past 15 years than we had in the previous 15,000.
3mins
With many of the foods considered by society to be "tasteful," like caviar, we have to develop an appreciation for them. Does that mean they taste "better" than something inherently […]
6mins
Creating a sense of immediate need is incredibly important in galvanizing people to initiate big changes.
2mins
A dynamic business that can both adapt and take proactive steps toward change will be most successful in the new economy.
8mins
A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor
Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at the NYU School of Law, says primary elections exacerbate political polarization. He thinks we should replace them with instant-runoff voting.
Polygamy is alive and well in parts of America. According to researchers at Brigham Young University, there are 30,000 to 50,000 people currently living a polygamist lifestyle in the United […]
By now you've probably heard about Fox News' parent corporation giving a million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. Noteworthy, but not necessarily surprising. While leafing through the RGA's IRS […]
There is a big difference between manners and good taste, says interior designer Thom Filicia, one-fifth of the Fab Five from Bravo's popular "Queer Eye" series. Knowing what society requires […]
Todd Purdum has a feature in Vanity Fair this month that is so rich with insight, color, and analysis regarding the communication challenges facing the Obama administration that I immediately […]
Yale professor David Gelernter tells Big Think that America should acknowledge its identity as a Judeo-Christian society and mandate teaching of the Bible in our public schools. America is a […]
"Is the purpose of public education to nurse students or to teach them?" asks Brian Crosby, a twenty-year veteran high school English teacher and the founder of the American Education […]
More than 50 years after the publication of CP Snow's seminal Two Cultures, interdisciplinary partnerships between science and other academic "cultures" are being urged once again. Today, the focus is […]
A new study of birds concludes that parents get more help when they are sexually faithful to each other and "leaves little doubt that promiscuity corrupts social life in birds."
London: Westminster sources claim that the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, has been discussing defecting to the Labour Party, with four or five Liberal Democrat colleagues. The […]