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The progressive economist Dean Baker on the first 100 days.
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was never quite a darling of the right, but his abandonment of the Republican Party—announced today—does more than raise the ire an already struggling conservative political […]
How does a president simultaneously extricate a country from myriad domestic crises, play a strong hand overseas to end inherited wars, stave off new wars, control a pandemic from swine, […]
Big Think’s latest livecast will feature Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram and Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain as they offer a look at the Wolfram Alpha, a soon-to-launch engine that […]
A growing chorus of academics wants to count higher education along with health care and fossil fuel dependency as one item on the list of “big reforms of our time.” […]
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Stephen Wolfram offers a a sneak preview of his long anticipated computational knowledge engine, the Wolfram Alpha; at the Berkman Center with Jonathan Zittrain.
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil on preparing for the Singularity.
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil assesses the current state of virtual reality before predicting how everything will change in the coming decades.
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By 2045, we’ll have expanded the intelligence of our human machine civilization a billion fold. That will result in a technological singularity, a point beyond which it’s hard to imagine.
Clintonian Democrat, lefty progressive, restrained partisan, closet wonk, post-racial unifier, hunk. The monikers used to describe Barack Obama’s executive style swirl about the man in a cloud of political columnist […]
In a week that saw plenty of quarterly reports see the light of day, two in particular caught the eye of couch potatoes everywhere. Are televisions the latest casualties of […]
In blogospheric guru Adam Singer’s ever expanding quest to help us all become more productive and valuable individuals, he takes on the bane of creatives everywhere: overthinking. It keeps us […]
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Lisa Price, president and founder of Carol’s Daughter, a line of beauty products, discusses how to turn a hobby into a successful business.
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Fabrice Grinda, founder of OLX and Zingy, talks about the mindset of starting your own business and when to use strategic thinking and discusses his nine business selection criteria.
The one-hundred day shindig is not only being celebrated by the president this week but by the entire White House hierarchy. Though a bit on the sleepy side, Assistant to […]
A plan is herewith presented whereby local governments will start 4,000 Narrow, State-Chartered, Community Banks and specialize in giving 4% mortgage loans.
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The refugee expert explains his experience with eastern and western theology.
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The refugee expert explains the IRC’s media strategy.
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The refugee expert says volunteers should tread carefully in the countries they are supposedly helping.
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George Rupp on the battle over human rights