The Latest from Big Think

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A conversation with Kabbalah expert Michael Laitman.
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The Kabbalah expert explains the origins of Kabbalah and its basic beliefs.
No country wants to discover it is facing a food shortage, but too often countries find out about shortages after they are too late. Faced with this conundrum, NASA wants […]
Weill Cornell Medical College researcher Oliver Fein said yesterday that the Obama administration is not likely to pursue a single-payer insurance model. Hoping to avoid rancorous bipartisanship and defering to […]
PR expert and blogger Steve Rubel comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss the intersection between the new media technologies and marketing strategies. Post your questions for him here. Steve […]
Three hundred seventy-five million people from the Arctic to the edges of Africa will go to the polls next week to elect 785 new Members of Parliament for the European […]
While you were soaking up the sun at your Memorial Day barbecue, hopefully you raised a glass to the Mars Phoenix Lander. It was the one-year anniversary of the plucky […]
With the newspaper industry in turmoil and media suffering from what Clay Shirky refers to as “mass amateurization,” it’s not a particularly good time to entangle the New York Times […]
This was a chance discovey.We stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes with latex lectin to find that they changed to other blood cell types.We refined the method and used a nitric oxide donor sodium nitroprusside to get similar results,thus bringing all the different blood cells under one roof.
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The author says there is an idea of “use it or lose it” that is very relevant.
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Mary Roach says the brain gets in the way of executing sex tips well.
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The author said Sigmund Freud was no friend of the clit and doesn’t have much currency in sex research.
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The author says men acquire fetishes more regularly than females.
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The author says older women do have some advantages.
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The author says homosexuals know their partners’ anatomy better, which can make for superior sex.
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The author talks about the role of porn in sex research.
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The author describes a research area dominated by the drug industry and mentions some of the lesser known disorders.
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The author shares the clitoris’ little known anatomy.
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Author Mary Roach on the red state-blue state bedroom divide.
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The author was led to write her book by colposcopic research from the 1950s.