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Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser shares the chilling history of myriad Americans who have at one time or another had the authority to launch nuclear weapons.
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
"Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul."
Today's featured Big Think interview is about hacking... but probably not the sort of hacking you'd expect. Learning expert Elliott Masie explains how Hackathons can help teams develop creative solutions.
"What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them."
Economist Larry Summers explains that there's no better time than now for the U.S. to reinvest in its crumbling infrastructure.
The English author's words resonate today as violent regimes reign across the globe and the United States grapples with the findings of the Senate torture report.