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One of the most intriguing pieces of business news last week was Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ return to public life, his first public appearance since October. After a six-month break […]
One of the biggest fairy tales in foreign policy told to Americans over the past several years has been the Bush administration’s proposed missile shield in Eastern Europe. None of […]
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For all the overheated talk about how far to the left Barack Obama is—for all that he has been called a socialist and even accused of having sympathies with the […]
How many company pep rallies are filled with sports analogies? Guess what? Lots of us have no idea what you are talking about!
a majority of people deny the fact that they are intelligent why is that?
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Mitchell Joachim, co-founder of Terreform ONE, describes the positive changes that architects—the ultimate jack-of-all-trades—could bring about in politics, the housing crisis, the military, and retooling Detroit.
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The co-founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Architecture at Columbia, Mitchell Joachim, discusses his plans for the Fab Tree Hab—a ‘positive impact’ home formed entirely from elements of local […]
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As part of his dissertation at MIT, Mitchell Joachim designed a “nerf-soft,” self-healing automobile that promises to prevent deaths from car accidents in our increasingly hot and crowded cities.
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When facing large-scale issues like the energy crisis and climate change, Mitchell Joachim argues that our solutions need to be as “big” as our problems.
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Does Singapore have the world’s best health care policy? Though it may be flawed, executive David Goldhill believe it offers an example of a health system that empowers consumers while […]
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Mitchell Joachim describes the ‘non-future’ of suburban sprawl and the need to rethink mobility in America: to uplift future-less locales and place them along moving, smart, renewable grids.
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Though David Goldhill’s vision of an ideal health care system is far off, it sheds light on important misunderstandings about the current health insurance-based system in the United States.
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David Goldhill’s popular Atlantic article was about “What Washington Doesn’t Get About Health Care.” We asked him if Obama learned anything in time for his September 9th bicameral speech on […]
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David Goldhill, a media executive, was inspired to become an expert on the healthcare crisis after his father died in a poorly run hospital. As it turned out, his outsider’s […]
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Mitchell Joachim explains how New York can be remodeled to generate all of its needs within its own boundaries and just how long it takes to change a city
Big Think sat down with Pfizer scientist Manos Perros to talk about pandemics. The chief scientist in the anti-virals department, he’s no stranger to developing drugs to counteract deadly diseases […]
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“You’ve had your eight years. Now go away.” These were the words addressed to former White House political guru Karl Rove just four months after the end of President George […]