Roughly 60% of Independents say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supported easing restrictions on off-shore drilling, according to a recent Gallup survey (figure above). […]
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Somali fisherman have made a conscious career change to piracy with Kalashnikovs and RPGs replacing fishing poles. Stanford’s Hoover Institution looks at the burgeoning industry.
Alfred Hitchcock once said, “A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who […]
Out-of-control Jersey Shore cast member Snooki reveals the ever-shrinking gap in America between who we are and how we broadcast ourselves to the world, Max Fisher considers.
Princeton philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah stopped by the Big Think offices this past week to talk how the concept of “honor” can be mobilized as a force for change. […]
If this week couldn’t get much stranger, now we have mud volcanoes in Azerbijian erupting.
nn This might not be directly related to a volcanic eruption, but it has been picked up by a lot of news sources, so I thought I’d give it a […]
They even made it through the Northwest Passage
As we’ve all learned in school, 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, only 30% is solid ground. What if everything was reversed? What if every land mass […]
Over 12,000 years ago, a caldera in the middle of Germany spread ash over Europe – and the Laacher See still seeps carbon dioxide.
Eyjafjallajökull might have gotten all the press, but Japan’s Sakurajima has put together quite the record here in 2010.
The eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga looks to be a big one.
Think that America’s energy problems and high gas prices aren’t changing perceptions among independents, even among liberals? Think again. According to a new Pew survey, as many liberals (45%) as […]
China moves to Russia and India takes over Canada. The Swiss get Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi India. And the U.S.? It stays where it is.
This is a classic volcanic island-building event and the question will be how long will the enlarged Hunga Ha’apai last and how last will the eruption continue.
Border weirdness on the Arabian peninsula
Large-scale drainage projects were popular in the early 20th century – but most came to nothing.
n n What is it with airlines and maps? Which part of ‘atlas’ don’t they understand? You’d think that, being the business of transportation, they’d get their distances and directions […]
Indonesian activity (other than Anak Krakatau), tsunamis threat to Dominica, science versus politics in the Canary Islands and satellite images.
When critic Randall Jarrell mentioned Vermeer in a review of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Bishop excitedly expressed her joy over someone making the connection. We can only guess how she’d feel […]
Now one of the smaller states, it once covered half the continent
n Not many people know that the epithet Windy City was bestowed on Chicago not for meteorological but political reasons – apparently, Chicago politicians at one time were known for […]
Gen. Wesley Clark’s Four-Star Advice on Life, War, Foreign Affairs and America’s Energy Independence
Who better to comment on President Obama’s recent decision to declare an end to the United States’ prolonged conflict in Iraq than General Wesley Clark? In his Big Think interview, […]
As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico enters its third month, a variety of efforts to stop the flow of oil have come and gone, all inspiring governments […]
Borders are to maps what icing is to cakes. Tracing their course between countries and across continents is a source of great enjoyment for the cartophile, as is contemplating their […]
Waq al-waq’s multi-media team has recently been busy preparing a new series of what could most accurately be called “sporadic conversations on Yemen,” but we have instead elected to call […]
We have tsunamis in the Mediterranean, mystery sulfur plumes, Taiwanese volcanoes and more in a round up of volcanoes in popular media.
. (click on the map to view it without the annoying sidebar) . Great stories are rarely isolates. Even though Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are founding epics of ancient Greece, […]
An amazing feat of engineering, but at the cost of much blood and treasure