10 Billion Beats is a non-commercial Global Intention Event that will use drumming to send a wave of positive intention around the world. Starting in Central Kansas, it will follow the sun through the time zones at 7:00 PM on Sept. 18, 2009. (Sept. 19 as it crosses the dateline)
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More bad climate news out of the journal Science—the Earth, as a whole, has been seeing less and less of the sun over the last 30 years. Maybe the global […]
Poll CTOs about game-changing technologies they’re watching, and I’ll bet the vast majority will put cloud computing at the top of the list. While cloud computing isn’t yet mature enough […]
For decades, the American government has battled gang violence. Now, with an intensifying drug war along the Mexican-U.S. border, academics and think tanks are studying these deeply-rooted criminal entities and […]
Talk of Obama’s biggest foreign policy engagement being only a stone’s throw across the Rio Grande seems unlikely in light of the close economic and diplomatic relationship the U.S. has […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to push the global economy out of recession. Included […]
What causes the Housing bubble and the result of recession! (See the cunning Greenspan, he only mentioned Housing Bubble not recession in his article! I do not buy it). ANSWER: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLAW OF CAPITALISM!
Whatever the angle, the media frenzy—such as it is in the poetry world—over the death of Nicholas Hughes is distasteful and irresponsible. Hughes, the son of canonical poets Sylvia Plath […]
The Times editorial page has been conspicuously down a token right-winger recently as former Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat stands on deck, preparing to step to the plate where Bill Kristol […]
Low pricing and advertising revenue brought news to the American public175 years ago. With little variation, it’s the news model we’ve had for almost 200 years. Today, the same funding […]
In the years leading up to the election of Barack Obama, and in the weeks since his inauguration, African Americans have been accruing historical milestones with unprecedented frequency. First African […]
It’s been a week since the Obama Administration first announced its strategy to stabilize U.S. banks by establishing an orderly plan for them to unwind the so-called “toxic assets” currently […]
In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon interviewed philosopher J. D. Trout about empathy.During the course of a rather hostile interview, Trout invoked the image of the Roman […]
A team of hyper-geniuses at MIT’s Media Lab has designed a cellphone type device that gathers data on the environment around you, searches for information using the Internet, aggregates the […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
What happens when you type your name into Google? How about when you click the ‘images’, ‘news’ and ‘blogs’ buttons? If you don’t know the answer, it may be time […]
AIG Financial Products founder Howard Sosin on why the government needs to assume temporary ownership of failed banks.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on how D.C. lost its mojo.
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Attorney Schaffer talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the system as well as D.A. Robert Morgenthau.
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After earning a J.D. from Harvard Law, Barrett returned to his childhood dream.
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Archer says you can come back as far as you’d like, as long as you’re willing to work for.
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Barack Obama said he’d appoint one. Who would it be?
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Mo Rocca is from that other entertainment capital, Washington, D.C.
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They’d be reasonably proud of the fact that we have maintained a large and robust civil society, but they’d be of two minds about the role the United States plays […]
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The chairman of McCann Erickson never thought she’d end up there.
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Carl Pope sometimes has to remind people that, in the Old West, if you poisoned the well, you’d be strung up.
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“I’d like to think of myself in some ways as a public intellectual.”
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