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Attention is finally being paid to Lebanon’s latent political crisis. The prime minister-designate, Saad Hariri, has sacked himself, according to the constitution, for failing to cobble together a power-sharing agreement […]
President Obama makes history again! When history comes, he feels it.rnHe makes it-the Obama health care bill.rnrnIf the GOP play politics as usual, there will be 100% sure we’ll have the bill! (Don’t ask!)rn
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Exploring the deep temperamental divide at the heart of the healthcare debate
Late blight is back. The fungus, which spreads through its spores and caused the great Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s, emigrated to the United States back then and is […]
It’s been easily the most prominent source of intrigue and information over the past two years, inspiring bizarre buzz words like “recessionista.” But the world of academia has been furiously […]
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Tucked away on the north shore of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva is a town called Vevey. It’s home to Nestle’s headquarters, as well as its former CEO and now Chairman Peter […]
If you’ve ever been comforted by the fact that, though calculus is Greek to you, you’ve always been “good with words,” or that, though you can’t spell to save your […]
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the CEO and President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talked to Big Think this summer about the challenges facing our health care system. Today, when we […]
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2003 that state constitution required that same-sex couples be allowed to marry. State courts in California, Connecticut, […]
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The promise of broadband Internet in Africa just took an ugly publicity hit—from a pigeon. The BBC reports that a carrier pigeon was able to deliver four gigabytes of data […]
Was Obama’s healthcare speech last night a game-changer? Did he give enough specifics about his plan? Was his outreach to the right enough to win moderate votes? The answers to […]
Not unexpectedly, one of the main industries hurt by the precipitous economic slump of the past few years has been philanthropy. In fact, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University […]
I am no apologist for the New York City subway. One of the reasons I bought a bike is to avoid its cramped cars, its smelly stations, and its under-repair […]
Pick a side, just like a football game with an invisible cup to win?
History is a car that doesn’t go in reverse. While my liberal-minded friends celebrated Obama as the end of expanding executive privilege, I knew we could never go back. Likewise, […]
Will aliens look like the people next door? I hope not.