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The economic pinch making it harder to make ends meet and you know what that means. Crime is back in vogue! And while bad people are doing bad things all […]
I know that I just shot an arrow into the war of Atheism Vs. Christianity but if we have time can we also discuss this topic. I’m a laymen and […]
Does everyone need to suffer? Should an image of Nouriel Roubini as standard-level modelizer trouble us?  Probably not. As much as we might like the idea of him holed up […]
Shall we expect a political stalemate or the largest economic rescue plan in the history of the universe next month in London? If for no one but Gordon Brown’s sake, […]
The Global Billionaires Club may be getting smaller by the minute, but there are still pockets of heavy growth. For example, Mexican drug lords are doing well. That’s why Forbes […]
What causes the Housing bubble and the result of recession! (See the cunning Greenspan, he only mentioned Housing Bubble not recession in his article! I do not buy it). ANSWER: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLAW OF CAPITALISM!
Albert Einstein once opined, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”  How then, can we begin to cure our global economic ailments using the same […]
Love it or hate it, broadcasting the minutiae of one’s life on Twitter has become the serial writing skill du jour. But, as the LA Times blogs, the medium is […]
A bizarre cottage industry born out of the war in Iraq carries a few lessons about humans and the economy. One, Saddam Hussein was one of the most iconic tyrants […]
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
Low pricing and advertising revenue brought news to the American public175 years ago. With little variation, it’s the news model we’ve had for almost 200 years. Today, the same funding […]
Does the 24/7 new media environment make the economic recovery more difficult?
Michael Spencer at the Christian Science Monitor concluded recently that evangelical Christianity is headed for collapse in the U.S. due to too many of its adherents caring more about politics […]
Yesterday I blogged on the depths to which the American student’s performance has slipped due to the shambling state of our public education system. Today I was heartened to see […]
Hooman Majd, the Iranian-American journalist who wrote “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran” will be in the Big Think studio today answering questions about how the […]
The federal government is gearing up once again for the census. Often, the deeper meaning of that decennial account of American demography is lost amidst statewide political bickering. While the […]
Every day, it seems, your DNA spills more and more secrets about you. This time it’s the color of your eyes. Researchers in the Netherlands just published a study in […]
First let me make this clear, it is utterly crucial that we take care of our environment and our world, we only get one and if we totally screw this […]
Water of life. Little water. Little stream. Zhizennia voda. The names under which Russian vodka masquerades are many and varied, as one might expect with the libation at the heart […]
Stephen Wolfram, the computer genius who authored the computational software Mathematica in 1998 and wrote A New Kind of Science in 2002, has built a new search engine. It’s called […]