The Latest from Big Think

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Dambisa Moyo on why we can’t let financial institutions fail.
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Blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Tweeting and hard writing.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the power of the pen/typewriter/keyboard.
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Coates tends to be much more narrative-driven when writing long-form pieces, whereas blog posts are more casual—almost like bar talk.
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The blogger dissects the impact of crack on African-Americans.
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The counter-narratives written by black historians and social scientists helped Coates to understand his identity.
Twitter is a great place to learn about philanthropy from a new angle.
As a website devoted to providing an interactive, online forum with global thought leaders, you can imagine our dismay when we read Nicholas Kristof’s evisceration of “experts” in today’s New […]
Do you feel trying to be a truly productive person each day is worth the effort? How much time would you devote to improving your productivity skills?
Prof. Krugman VS Tim Geithner, To Whom will be right (part II).rn rn I hate to see Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ can even figure out a way to home deliver its newspaper to rural area, that NYT CANNOT! That worries me, in NYT almost every day it seems to me that the Columnists, in NYT write articles that aim at teaching other how to save the world. In realty they can not save my beloved (may be not his!) NYT from depression! How can make me believe their writing?rn rn rnrnrnrnrn rn
In this month’s Vanity Fair, David Kamp charts how our centuries-long obsession with the American Dream may be dying. To take stock of where the American Dream stands today, let’s […]
There are two inherently competing notions about personal branding that deserve mention. The first: creating a personal brand helps define us as individuals. The second: when we all enter one […]
In the upcoming Judd Apatow film Funny People, Adam Sandler, referring to his mother, says “I sent her an email and she tried to email me back on a toaster.” […]
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday.  So why did the markets spiral out of control? Geithner briefly sent markets cascading with comments that […]
Big Think presents a new series from leading global economists: When Will the Recession End? A death knell for investing, the end of easy credit, the emergence of a regulatory […]
The reigning American casino havens, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, are feeling the pinch in this frosty economic climate. So why does the rest of the normal world want to […]
Conor Clarke in the Atlantic’s business blog today, reports on Senator Benjamin Cardin’s plan to make it easy for newspapers to become nonprofits. But do we really want newspapers that […]