The Latest from Big Think

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Shai Rashef on his plan to improve access to education in poor countries.
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University of the People Founder Shai Rashef on international collaboration.
Shai Rashef explains his revolutionary plan to change global education.
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Marc Ecko is closely watching China’s rise, especially its trends in fashion.
Could a fixation on the language of depression economics actually precipitate a worse economic slump? The Times speculates that a eye toward past downturns could increase our complacency with the […]
Retrofitting the United States with green energy infrastructure presents a multi-trillion dollar herculean challenge to the Obama administration, but one that heralds the renewal of scientific thinking at the national […]
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Ted Kennedy prescribes love as the answer to the world’s problems.
A rose by another other name may not smell quite as sweet, explains Greg Mankiw, who parses the real difference between a ‘nationalization’ of banks and a ‘pre-privatization’.
The cross-cutting matrix of interests that defines our new global landscape is nicely represented in this commercial for the non-profit Citizens Energy featuring founder, and Kennedy family scion, Joe Kennedy […]
It was recently announced that two of the child stars of Slumdog Millionaire would be attending the 81st Oscars ceremony on Sunday night. Joe Morgenstern declared the drama “the film […]
George Soros doesn’t see anything that even remotely resembles his idea of what’s needed to jumpstart economic recovery and so still can’t see the bottom.  There’s perhaps no one in […]