The Latest from Big Think

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A conversation with the evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.
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“I think that is a very shady practice and it’s harming our health in exchange for creating a whole industry of profitability of selling snake oil and marketing gimmicks,” says […]
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The tools and information on the Internet may be able to help prevent office visits, especially primary care visits.
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Hello Health is revolutionizing the physician/patient relationship by integrating online tools and communication into the healthcare process.
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How much would it cost to design a social networking site to sign up all 11 million health care workers in America? Less than $20 billion.
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A conversation with the co-founder of Hello Health.
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Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla can’t imagine oil being more than $30 a barrel by 2030.
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To solve the transportation problem in a city, put everything online. Publishing raw data would enable people to run simulations and create proposals.
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Michael Schrage would rather invest in a counterpart of Ryanair, than in fixed track locations: “It may work for Asia and Europe, but people are closer together, the city densities […]
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The role of the federal government should be to facilitate opportunity and choice for people who wish to travel.
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“I don’t believe people are going to give up on the wheels of a car for the foreseeable future,” says the transportation researcher.
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The price improvement curve ahead of us for space travel could improve from $45 million to $100, says Peter Diamandis.
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Someday we could have the ability to pay for a car to take us from point A to point B the moment we want to go.
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Peter Diamandis wonders what fields have the potential to innovate with prizes like his creation, the X PRIZE.
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There are three main reasons we need to go into space now, and one of them is to back up the biosphere.
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A conversation with the Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation.
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The writer talks about whom he most enjoys cooking for, drinking with Mario Batali in Spain, and whom he’d serve if he could cook for anyone.
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Coming up with the inspiration for new recipes starts with shopping and ends in kitchen experiments.
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Proposals to tax sugary sodas are good — but plans to remove salt from restaurants are “moronic.”