Twitter, the darling of web entrepeneurs everywhere, may be one of the few networking outfits that are not sweating the economic doldrums. Though they still lack a revenue stream, Twitter […]
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Inaugural poetess and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale Elizabeth Alexander is sitting down with Big Think today. She helped ring in the Obama presidency with her poem, “Praise Song […]
Despite obstacles, including an estimated $350 trillion price tag, a University of Arizona astronomer wants to save the earth from global warming by firing trillions of mirrors ito the stratosphere […]
In an attempt to mend tenions between city and suburb, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, unveiled his massive urban planning effort last week. Will “Grand Paris” serve as a […]
Estonians have branded themselves as the least religious European nation according to a new Gallup poll that lends credence to the notion that faith is closely tied to living standards. […]
A bizarre cottage industry born out of the war in Iraq carries a few lessons about humans and the economy. One, Saddam Hussein was one of the most iconic tyrants […]
“The concept of a ‘billionaire philanthropist’ is an oxymoron. If somebody has amassed a billion dollars, that person likely did so by overcharging for products/services through monopolistic power in the marketplace. It would be much more impressive to see the ‘billionaire philanthropist’ drastically cut prices for the benefit of mankind rather than merely handing over 10%-20% of personal net worth for purposes of obtaining a tax break.”
While the Senate debates the Omnibus Spending Bill (HR 1105) on the heels of the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the restructured $350 billion TARP and the $75 […]
Everyone knows that they’re supposed to be adapting to a newly lean recession budget, but once you’ve nixed pedicures, Starbucks and the occasional taxi, you may start to feel a […]
AIG Financial Products founder Howard Sosin on why the government needs to assume temporary ownership of failed banks.
The Spanish economy, long enamored with bubbles, is set for rocketing unemployment again this year. Big Think, in collaboration with Barcelona Reporter, talked to some Barcelona residents to see how […]
The year 2000 was not a good time to be young and in charge, particularly in New Jersey. It was October of that year when Union City mayor Rudy Garcia […]
In case you were scrambling to find a store that still had chicken wings in stock and missed the Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition, a ‘new reality’ has set in […]
The first day of Hillary Clinton’s first overseas trip as Secretary of State also happened to coincide with the 67th birthday of North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il. The Democratic […]
Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
The Obama administration has announced a plan to join forces with private equity firms and hedge funds to forge public-private partnerships to reverse the housing and credit crisis. This comes […]
Speaking today at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice President Joe Biden told the world that the U.S. would no longer be a swaggering soloist throwing its muscle around […]
Expository essay describing the power of bacteria as it relates to the damage it can do to human beings.
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
Prof. Paul Krugman, Bank Nationalization! Never!
It has become fashionable to castigate Twitter – the microblogging service – as an expression of rampant narcissism. Yet, narcissists are verbose and they do not take kindly to limitations imposed on them by third parties.
Since the latter half of the 20th century, the US has been moving towards greater individualism according to John Cacioppo.
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Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values.
It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.
James Goldgeier explains that a 20-year-old obsession has blinded us to other geopolitical changes.
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Dickson Despommier on 20,000 years of agricultural history.
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The last one concerned with the problems of the 20th century instead of the 21st, positive economic strategies like the rebate and making democracy a core principle again.
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What motivated the social and political reformers in early 20th-century Chicago?
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Strossen looks to Louis Brandeis’ very broad definition of privacy.
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