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If you didn’t know about the magnitude of the Google Library Project, you’re not alone. In 1994, Google began approaching major libraries offering to digitize their stacks with an eye […]
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The jackpot drawing for tonight’s Mega Millions multi-state lottery is a whopping $333 million, the second largest prize in North American lottery history. The ticket is $1. Should you buy […]
In the raging debate over healthcare here in the U.S., there is one point on which everybody, from Newt Gingrich to Barack Obama, seems to agree: We should be spending […]
Hooman Majd, journalist and author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, understands Iran more than almost anyone in the U.S. journalism circuit. A Western-educated descendant of an ayatollah, Majd has […]
Noam Chomsky, longtime chronicler of the gap between political bombast and legislative boorishness, recently sat down with Big Think to discuss a variety of issues, from his thoughts on Obama, […]
In the 1999 film Three Kings, cited by President Bill Clinton as one of his favorites, a small group of rogue American soldiers attempt to loot Saddam Hussein’s Iraq of […]
Who says nothing interesting happens in this blogger’s native Nebraska? One of the state’s native species has helped scientists see the secrets of evolution twice in the span of a […]
Ep Medsystems Termination Reinhard Schmidt, EP MedSystems’ President and Chief Executive Officer commented, “We are very pleased to report our second consecutive quarter of record revenues. Our increased investment in […]
The story of the U.S. Patent Office official who resigned his post in the 19th century because he believed there was nothing left to invent makes a point about human […]
Sometimes peoples’ views surprise you. When I heard Tim McCarthy, director of Harvard’s Human Rights and Social Movement program, talk about gay marriage in his Big Think interview, I was […]
In the wake of Ted Kennedy’s passing, leaders from all walks of life and on both sides of the partisan divide have paid their respects to him. Many of Big […]
Hi there all, I am writing to you from sunny Barcelona having temporarily escaped the “winter of our discontent” that is August in the People’s Republic of Collingwood. Last Tuesday […]
How will we know when we have achieved success in Afghanistan? According to Richard Holbrooke, our special envoy to the region, “We’ll know it when we see it.” That’s a […]
With the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver mere months away, the requisite issues have come up. Particularly the issue of performance-enhancing drugs among competing athletes. But a separate drug issue […]
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May Yahweh rest the Soul and Bless the Spirit of Senator Edward Ted Kennedy. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. He will always be remembered for his dedication to justice and the poor. Thank you, for being a part of this lifetime.
The honeymoon of new American liberalism begun by Obama’s presidential election seems to have died with Ted Kennedy. Reflections on the Lion of the Senate seem to come in three […]
An Irish Sunday Tabloid recently carried the following Headline on it's front page, "Kerry: I'll die young". For those of you who don't know, the Kerry in question is not a figure in Politics, not a Humanitarian,not a film star and not a pop star, not anymore anyway.