On the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death (and possibly his birthday too), Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley wrote this personal reflection for Big Think.
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I will talk about the work of each of the speakers below over the next few weeks. But it should be clear enough that this conference will explore most of […]
Back in 2007, when I was a loan officer for a small mortgage lender in Atlanta, the president of the Pennsylvania title company that closed the majority of the loans […]
Those of us who lived through the 1980s remember well the phenomenon of the Members Only jacket. Whether you’ve found one in the back of your closet or not, you […]
After 3 years, it’s time to set up an advisory board for CASTLE. Although I have a few people in mind that I’d like to invite, I also thought it […]
Design Thinking is one of the most fashionable concepts in the innovation world these days. But could it really save industries that are on the fast road to extinction?
Here’s a video from GOOD and the University of Phoenix. Happy viewing! (hat tip to Dennis Richards)
In a guest post today, Lauren Krizel reports on an event held this week in Washington, DC that gathered some of the city’s top chefs to discuss sustainability and the […]
In a guest post today, Samantha Miller probes the relation between perceptions and reality in the organic food marketplace. Miller is a graduate student in Journalism at American University. She […]
With China in position to overtake the US as the world’s number one economy by 2020, keeping America inventive and productive has never been more important.
The newest video by Common Craft is about augmented reality. Lately I’ve been showing some augmented reality examples to school administrators, just to give them a taste of what’s to come… […]
It’s that time of year again. It’s summer time and olderdrivers are in the news. Perennially trapped between humor and horror thedebate on older drivers continues in every state house, […]
n nOver on the Trends in the Living Networks blog, Ross Dawson points to a 2008 World Trends Map that his Future Exploration Network helped put together, modeled entirely on […]
Can and should we try to drill deep into the earth, past the crust and into the mantle? We’ve tried in the past but haven’t gotten far. If the earth was an orange, we’d have barely zested it.
For its upcoming conference, ISTE has put forth its “backchannel code of conduct.” In short, it reads: Be nice Be clear Be open There are more details, but that’s the […]
Larry Flynt is a pioneer of pornography, who has seen it all, and he speaks to Big Think (See the exclusive video) about the nature of truth and the burden of proof in our society today.
On Tuesday, September 18, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Summit on American Competitiveness will bring together some of the leading thinkers in American innovation — including executives like Fred Smith […]
Yesterday evening a major bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River in the middle of rush hour. I’d like to thank everyone who checked in to see if my family […]
I’m pleased to announce my first guest blogger, Dr. David Quinn. David is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy at the University of Florida and […]
When President Obama asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay at his post, Gates made clear he would do so out of a sense of public duty, not an affinity for Washington D.C.
It’s well known that New York City (and the Indian Point Nuclear Power plant) sits on fault lines, making an earthquake entirely possible. A geological paper says that the eastern seaboard might need to worry about tsunamis as well.
Wall Street investment banks will begin trading a new type of exotic financial instrument in which the underlying cash flows of an artist’s creative works are re-packaged into off-balance sheet derivatives
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Here are some research findings for you… Smart people leave teaching? Of the teachers who had high college entrance exam scores, almost a fourth of them leave […]
If you haven’t read the popular non-fiction book Freakonomics, I highly recommend it. Or, if it’s more your speed, you can visit the website associated with the book. The authors […]
Okay, I don’t know if this is a great idea or a dumb one but I thought I’d roll it out and see (the Twittersphere seemed to like it a […]
With federal judges retiring at the rate of one a week—and being replaced nowhere near that fast—101 of the 854 seats on district and circuit courts are currently vacant. Can democrats and republicans make nice and fill this gap?
We’ve been reading a lot lately about the rediscovered remnants of the Pink and White Terraces (also known as Te Tarata and Otukapurangi) near Mt. Tarawera in New Zealand, but […]
This semester I am teaching an interdisciplinary course on “Science, the Environment, and the Media.” The 25 combined undergraduate and graduate students in the course have split into project teams […]
I head to Denver tomorrow, eager and excited for the ISTE conference. I’ve got a plan this year; there are some things I want to learn and some conversations I […]
China and India will always train more scientists and engineers. But at least America’s still got the best environment for ideas to grow.