The Latest from Big Think

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The audience that the New Yorker critic has in mind is “somebody who’s like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.”
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A conversation with the Harvard University English professor.
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What excites the legendary computer scientist about the future? In a word: graphics.
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The terrorist attack David Gelernter experienced in 1993 left his body injured, but his mind unfazed.
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The basic user interface of our personal computers has stayed the same for a generation. How can we move beyond the desktop?
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How spreading sensitive information over thousands of computers could revolutionize digital security.
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The “Judaism: A Way of Being” author makes the case for Judaism as the most important intellectual development in Western history.
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Throughout the history of Jewish culture, the image has been inseparable from the word.
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A conversation with the writer, artist, and Yale computer scientist.
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Beauty entrepreneurs Malin and Goetz reflect on how their sexuality has influenced their experience of starting a business.
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On being in business with a life partner: “We’ve had our fair share of Sid and Nancy moments, but there is nobody in the world I trust more.”
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Should staffing decisions come from the gut? It’s debatable.
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Organic ingredients might only be .02 percent of an “organic” product.
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A relationship with a bar of soap turned into in a high-end skin care venture.
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Sometimes word-of-mouth can create a more exclusive business.
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Life is full of heartbreak, but the actor and former High Times editor tries not to sweat the small stuff.
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“As wild as you think it is, as wild as you imagine it is—it’s even wilder.” says former High Times Magazine editor John Buffalo Mailer. “It is a crazy Willy […]
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The author and former vet wishes war movies could give audiences a taste of reality, and that warmongering politicians would risk their own lives on the front lines.
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The former “High Times” editor thinks America is “going the legalization route.” But will marijuana lose its outlaw mystique?