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I often have pointed out that interviewing people gives me the opportunity to shut the fuck up. I don’t have to talk. There’s certainly this idea that interviewing doesn’t involve […]
So I've been thinking a lot about the charge that conservatives are bad because they hate science. But it's just not true. Here's a beginning of my explanation why. We […]
We live in an amazing era of technology-driven transformation that’s redefining how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate—all in an amazingly short period of time. With that […]
Like many sites, BigThink has a Terms of Use section. If certain members of Congress have their way, an amended Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could make violating those terms a criminal offense.
With the slow death of "appointment television" comes an increasing tendency for spoilers to pop up in unexpected places. Writer Sean T. Collins discusses fans' and critics' attempts to preserve the suspense.
As autonomous cars slowly move closer to reality, designers from different disciplines are looking at how they will change the rules of the road, as well as the road itself.
When I was a teen-age consumer of cheap paperbacks about worlds more interesting than this one, I noticed a clear and sharp split between readers who loved SF (spaceships, time […]
The Belgian founder of five clinics says the poor are most acutely affected by pain and as a result are the ideal candidates for "humanitarian acupuncture."
There’s no doubt that there’s going to be an international market for biotechnologies. And you’re going to have consumers going from one place to another trying to find enhancement technologies. But […]
We all know that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. No secret there. We can’t keep growing the way we have been over the last decades or centuries […]
A government initiative that originally focused on hotels in certain districts of Ho Chi Minh City has now been expanded to all hotels in an attempt to combat unsafe sexual practices.
City officials installed four ewes in a half-acre field next to the municipal archives building for a mere $335. They will munch on grass, and fertilize the field, until this fall.
1. Don't Let Math Get in the Way of Big Ideas "Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semiliterate." E.O. Wilson shares […]
When I was building Cowbird, I was trying to create a kind of sanctuary for storytellers on the Internet. A lot of the Internet, in recent years, has become like […]
Religion was actually the most interesting chapter of the book that I wrote. And that was because I started out with a premise that as we can live longer and […]
Should water be treated as a commodity today when we are faced with many shortages? The flipside of the question is that we are now looking at even the United […]
Time was when being an entrepreneur or an achiever, was something that was frowned upon by "the snobs at the top and those who where envious at the bottom," says Jeffrey […]
collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published.
You know how sometimes when you put your foot in your mouth and say something really stupid, you try to recover but only stammer out something even dumber and […]