The Latest from Big Think

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“People are still very nationalist, and they care chiefly for their own domestic affairs,” so the challenge is to create a sense in the news coverage that their neighbor’s affairs […]
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Because of the continent’s violent history, Europeans think they should know about each other. But in reality every nation is still living inside its borders.
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To create a loyal audience, a network needs to respect the basic laws of journalism, be honest, be transparent, and strike a good “balance between values and opinions.”
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A conversation with the Executive President of Euronews
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If you want to make great images, you need to have an inquiring mind and ask a lot of questions. “If you just accept the world the way it is […]
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Physical stamina is very important, as is a sensitivity to sound, emotion, and beauty.
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Midori Goto doesn’t lift weights or try to build muscle but she is “very conscious of having to warm up correctly” in order to handle the physical and mental strain […]
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Midori Goto treats her priceless 276-year-old violin like a partner rather than an extension of herself.
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The photographic artist walks us through the backstory of several images from his series about oil.
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You have to “give yourself over to the visual experience” and try to understand an image’s intellectual and psychological context.
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Today’s technology allows “casual happy snappers” to come up with some cool images. But ultimately the strength of good photography is in knowing one’s self and responding to emotions.
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The photographer says there’s a sense of melancholy and sadness in his work relating to “the destruction to the creation of the things that we build” and the resulting loss […]
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The photographer walks us through his process of finding subjects, scouting out locations and scenes, and looking for the best moment to take a photograph.
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Stephen Hawking says all we have to do is survive another two hundred years and the human race will be saved, because by that point human settlements in space will […]
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As Americans come to understand LGBT people more completely, they become more open to supporting legislative endeavors for equality and reframing how gay people are perceived in the larger culture.
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Gay parents understand what it’s like to be misunderstood, and what it’s like for children to be trapped in the lens of somebody else’s’ stereotype.
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A conversation with the President and CEO of GLAAD.
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You don’t wear your sexuality “on your sleeve,” says the GLAAD president. “It’s not part of your last name; it isn’t in your accent. … You actually have to come […]