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As we’ve blogged before on Big Think, the state of science savvy in America is pretty sorry. Only about a third of us accept evolution through natural selection, even lower […]
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Jay Smooth reflects on the institutional factors involved in the professor’s apprehension.
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Jay Smooth on sampling and the creative process.
Researchers are learning about the human brain from a system that is more similar to our gray matter than you may think: ant colonies. Just as neurons navigate through your […]
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Jay Smooth discusses the legacy of hip-hop feuds.
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Jay Smooth on whether “player-haters” are really the problem.
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Hip-Hop and the broadening of cultures
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Jay Smooth discusses music and the value of aesthetic expression
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Jay Smooth weighs in on the career prospects of today’s creative class
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Jay Smooth discusses the pleasures of collaborative storytelling and planting one’s own flag online.
When Google unveiled its innovative, if voyeuristic, satellite photo tool to the computer-loving public, it was revolutionary, it was compelling, it was intriguing, it was… a major threat against national […]
In the late nineteenth century, large-scale immigration dramatically increased the population of Buenos Aires. Most migrants were men; one figure even suggests a ratio of ten men for every woman. […]
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The New York Times recently presented an eye-opening graph derived from the American Time Use Survey. This unique project seeks to map out what Americans are doing every day, broken […]
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A conversation with the former Alaskan senator.
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Mike Gravel chronicles his struggles to operate independently during the 2008 election, and bemoans the impossibly of a electing a President capable of bringing about real change.
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Former Alaskan senator Mike Gravel describes how the American government is designed to undermine the power of the people, and reveals how an elite-based government was the intention of the […]
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“Never have more than 20% of an individual stock or industry in your portfolio.”