The Latest from Big Think

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We asked Zeke Vanderhoek, founder of a revolutionary public charter school in Manhattan, how he would reform the U.S. education system.
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Educators at Zeke Vandehoek’s New York City public charter school don’t have the typical job description.
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Zeke Vanderhoek, the brains behind a revolutionary charter institution in Manhattan, explains how to do it.
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The founder of a new charter middle school in Washington Heights explains the evolution of his radical idea.
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Zeke Vanderhoek, founder of Manhattan’s Equity Project Charter School, is banking on the instructors he’s chosen to run the place.
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The founder of Manhattan’s new charter institution remembers his life in the Teach for America trenches.
To this day, the biopsy is still the gold standard for diagnosing cancer. But there are definite limits to the procedure, one being that you only get a measurement at […]
Recap: The Internet made previously paid-for content suddenly free and vendors who relied on the profitability of the written, spoken and video recorded word are struggling to stay afloat. Journalism […]
As President Obama doggedly prioritizes universal coverage over a thorough revamp of the health care system that would deliver truly efficient, sustainable care, “Obamacons”, like me, who helped elect him, […]
Remember the Seinfeld episode featuring the “close-talker,” an overly pleasant fellow named Aaron (played by Judge Reinhold) who stands just a little too close to people when he’s talking to […]
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A conversation with the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn, a professional networking site.
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The founder of LinkedIn makes a case for why all companies should deploy this technology.
Justin Fox, business columnist and Curious Capitalist for Time magazine as well as author of the bestseller The Myth of the Rational Market, stopped by Big Think recently to talk […]
The idea is a simple one. Design a "fleet" of platforms that harness the energy of the sea winds, solar and the waves. We at Club Class Concierge are always looking for new ideas to invest in.
"View the most impressive site of the world! – Δείτε το πιο εντυπωσιακό site του κόσμου!"rnBreathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.(Suggested by John Patra, Greek blogger extraordinaire, a not to be missed site.)
When the atheists are not busy worshiping their various pagan celebrity gods, they turn to their supreme ruler: REASON.
Apparently the evidence of design is all around us, I just don't see it.
Everything has become so very complicated these days. Complexity, if the leader is to be truly successful and sustainably successful in increasingly amorphous, re-adaptable, uncharted waters, he must understand complexity multidimensionally.
From the very beginning the unruly Christian sect of Jews were to eradicate all history of other monism faiths.
If you didn’t know about the magnitude of the Google Library Project, you’re not alone. In 1994, Google began approaching major libraries offering to digitize their stacks with an eye […]