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William Lane Craig ad absurdum One insufferable attribute of the faithful is the ability, nay, the indulgence of equivocating faith to explain all manner of things. Hume said it best: […]
The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philly's public library system) shuts down on October 2nd, 2009 due to budget cuts.
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Geneticist Tara Matise is thin but a home DNA test showed that she was at risk for obesity.
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Tara Matise at Rutgers University hopes to develop a test that will let a woman know at what age she might become infertile.
Just in time for New York’s fashion week, Dan Ariely, the Duke Behavioral Economics professor and author of Predictably Irrational, sent Big Think a video on how fake designer sunglasses […]
We asked some of our financial experts – Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, former Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller, and Time economics columnist Justin Fox – […]
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The former CEO of Young and Rubicam thinks about her grandchildren and can’t help but be passionate about education reform.
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Young and Rubicam’s former CEO finds herself constantly in search of an answer to the question: What is the future of the democracy?
Big Think recently talked to Howard Gardner, the esteemed Harvard psychologist and the pioneer of the theory of “multiple intelligences”, about success, intelligence, and education.  He saw several challenges facing […]
Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
Please! Miss Serena Williams, you just a Tennis players! You can F-word yourself, like Tiger did it ( I am sorry to put you in the scale of Serena, but your profanity is the same as her!) You can not F-word the empire! Play by the rule and respect to your profession! Please! Foot fault is foot fault. Miss Serena Williams. WE AMERICA, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE, DOES NOT NEED THIS KIND OF TENNIS CHAMPION IN US OPEN! Shame!
Opening minds for the better…
INTRODUCING …•٩Mo$۶¯`rnrnrnMy Idea is quite simple- that is the beauty of this ´idea`- enough with these special goofy charters… but they are part of the plan as well… as you can see, these characters evoke emotion and comatose analysis session… big think is what I see above – a very attractive and emotionally charged logo… I can see that the “b” in BIG has a curving upper stem… coincidence.. I think not! Aha, oYo and YiYiYippy…
To hell with self control!
If knowledge is power, then Google is the New York Yankees, CIA and Vitali Klitschko rolled into one. As the internet juggernaut maintains its dominance online, its influence on the […]
Attention is finally being paid to Lebanon’s latent political crisis. The prime minister-designate, Saad Hariri, has sacked himself, according to the constitution, for failing to cobble together a power-sharing agreement […]
That anniversary again