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The burgeoning field of animal personality research seeks to figure out why individual members of a species are so unique -- and why they remain so through their entire lives.
Glen Whitman writes that economic interventions by policymakers to address anomalies in human behavior "create a serious risk of slippery slopes toward ever more intrusive paternalism."
About 4.4% of American adults are believed to have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and more and more of them are being diagnosed and treated with medication.
Yassin Musharbash writes that banning women from wearing burqas won't solve the underlying problems of Muslim immigration and integration that plague Western societies.
A team of researchers are hoping to find 30,000 years of climate records in the rings of preserved kauri trees in the peat bogs of New Zealand.
With tenure-track positions dwindling at universities, Peter Conn writes that humanities faculties need to "articulate our contribution if we hope to find increasing levels of support for the work we do."
As many as thirty percent of Americans have allergies, and most of the pollen they are affected by comes from trees planted nearby. Cities could relieve sufferers by planting low-pollen street trees.
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To solve the transportation problem in a city, put everything online. Publishing raw data would enable people to run simulations and create proposals.
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Michael Schrage would rather invest in a counterpart of Ryanair, than in fixed track locations: "It may work for Asia and Europe, but people are closer together, the city densities […]
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The role of the federal government should be to facilitate opportunity and choice for people who wish to travel.
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"I don't believe people are going to give up on the wheels of a car for the foreseeable future," says the transportation researcher.
Bestselling cookbook author and New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman stopped by the Big Think offices a few weeks ago to talk with us about eating, cooking, and the […]
At the New York Review of Books Blog, controversial Catholic theologian Hans Küng blames the celibate priesthood for the epidemic of child rape in the Catholic Church. (The term "rape" […]
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The price improvement curve ahead of us for space travel could improve from $45 million to $100, says Peter Diamandis.
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Someday we could have the ability to pay for a car to take us from point A to point B the moment we want to go.
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Peter Diamandis wonders what fields have the potential to innovate with prizes like his creation, the X PRIZE.
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There are three main reasons we need to go into space now, and one of them is to back up the biosphere.
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A conversation with the Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation.
David Remnick appeared on Meet the Press yesterdayto discuss his book on Obama. Among other things, he noted how careful the President is in understanding the need for nuance when […]