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Nearly 1 million children work full time in Bolivia's tin mines, in cemeteries, on buses, or in the markets. It's a tough life, but at least they're unionized.
A new book tells the story on the "triumph of capitalism" in the U.S. in the remarkable 35 years after the Civil War when American economy exploded in size.
The US military has issued a warning that social networking sites could endanger the lives of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because of new features that reveal the user's location.
Dire warnings about global warming can backfire if presented too negatively, making people less amenable to reducing their carbon footprint, new research shows.
Capitalism has solved the need to keep wages low and consumption high by bringing future consumption into the present by dramatic extensions of credit.
Over at the NY Times' Dot Earth, Andrew Revkin has a post titled "An Inconvenient Mind" gathering thoughts from social scientists Dan Kahan and Robert Bruille on the UC Berkeley […]
"The critical thing is to figure out a way to get the technology engine restarted," says the venture capitalist. "And we should have less government regulation to enable that."
In the age of social networking and digital communities, there's something to be said for analog art of appreciation – of people, of places, of music, of all the other […]
Technological innovation is the most important thing that developing countries should focus on, says Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and PayPal founder. In his most recent Big Think interview, Thiel […]
If you're a member of America's anxious middle class, you can feel downtrodden one minute and privileged the next, just watching the news. Here's some super-rich guy planning his run […]
As you've probably heard, the TSA introduced a new extra-invasive body search protocol on Oct. 29, just in time for the rollout of whole body scanners at 65 airports. The […]
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey thinks companies that pay competitive wages and focus on "higher purpose" in customer interactions will ultimately create the most value for their shareholders.
Ireland, once hailed as the ‘Celtic Tiger’, is bust and has gone cap in hand to the IMF and the European Central Bank. Ireland was once hailed by Britain’s now […]
Now, there is a lot of articles on the new Nature paper on the Eyjafjallajökull and the signs leading up to it - but considering I'm not privy to such […]
Are women and African-Americans at a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease—as some data suggests—or are there other factors in play?
For the first time in its 217-year history, the Louvre, perhaps the greatest museum in the world, is asking the French public for financial help to purchase a painting. Even […]
We tend to prefer a world in which wealth is more evenly distributed, even if it means we have to get by with less. Jonah Lehrer says inequality is our original sin.
One hundred and fifty years after his birth, Anton Chekhov's plays have become almost as much a part of modern theater's repertoire as Shakespeare.
Germany geologist Andreas Dahmke defends the process of storing carbon dioxide underground to prevent global warming. Nuclear power is far more dangerous, he says.
Scientists at Europe's best particle-physics laboratory have been able to trap a very small amount of antihydrogen—the simplest type of anti-atom—for the first time.