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Here at Mind Matters we strive to be your full-service source of octopus-cognition news. And in my last post on that, I described humans making videos for octopuses. So it's […]
"If it’s any good, [literature] can make you feel less alone in the world...It gives you some late-night company with your memories and your sorrow.Literature does touch people; it’s not […]
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Consider the Martin Luther era, when things in the Catholic Church were even worse.
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It’s alarmist to say that one-half of a percent of the euro's G.D.P. could cause the collapse of the currency.
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The chances for getting climate change policies through Congress—or through Parliaments worldwide—are greatly improving thanks, in part, to the terrible tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
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We don’t need an energy or resources tax; we need an instrument for letting resource prices rise in parallel with resource productivity.
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We don't need to surrender anything that would drastically alter our way of life, but we need to think of our grandchildren.
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We could be much more pro-active in lessening our impact on the environment. Energy-efficient cars and "passive houses" can make a real difference.
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The financial system has drifted away from the industrial and commercial system, and the leaders of financial institutions have found they can make a lot of money by building organizations […]
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Even though China and India are expected to have as much as 40 percent of the world's GDP by midcentury, incomes in those countries will still be one-third of those […]
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Why an "inside outsider" might be the next person most suited to take over a company.
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A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor.
A British bioethics council is asking the public whether it's ethical to use financial incentives to encourage people to donate organs.
In a new book, Timothy Ryback examines Adolf Hitler's private library. He asserts that books were important in shaping the Führer's life, and looks for insights in the books' margin notes.
While political debates might suggest that the question of climate change is yet unresolved, the world of industry and commerce is convinced that global warming is real, and imminent.
Big Think blogger Michio Kaku writes that a "perfect storm" of wind and ice conditions turned the Icelandic volcano eruption into a crisis. He gives three scenarios for what we can now expect.
Synthetic biologists have discovered new chemical reactions that could "rewire" plants to more efficiently process carbon dioxide—allowing crops to grow to enormous size.
"Right now, America has neither the opportunity nor frankly the balls to do truly big things on Arab-Israeli peacemaking," writes Aaron David Miller.
Scientists have found a distinctive kind of breaking wave in the deep sea representing a subtle force that stirs the seabed and helps distribute rare nutrients.
"No matter where consumers buy books, their belief that electronic media should cost less—that something you can’t hold simply isn’t worth as much money—will exert a powerful force," writes Ken Auletta.