For the first time in a long time, there’s almost a glut of good news flooding green media: not only did Obama commit last week to attend December’s crucial climate […]
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Greg Sargent calls our attention today to an interview Bush’s former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino gave last night on Fox News’ “Hannity.” In the interview, Perino takes the […]
Maureen Dowd has all the steadiness and heft of a tin weathervane, but like a weathervane she can point which way the wind is blowing in Washington. And her column […]
Gary Giddins learned early in his career that his job isn’t to spend whole columns trashing albums no one would have bought anyway. His job is to buttonhole readers and […]
It’s been an exciting Wednesday morning here at Big Think. Not only were we pleased to present our Nobel Wisdom series, having interviewed two recent laureates in the past several […]
Writing about intelligence is like running a ferry service between two different planets. On one, everyone assumes that g, general intelligence, is a real and important trait, in which heredity […]
A German banker has been hailed as “Die Robin Hood Bankerin” after she transferred money from rich accounts to help the poor.
Residents of an Australian community have been overrun by an invasion of thousands of camels – and many people are scared to leave their homes.
The death toll of the massacre of journalists and politicians in southern Philippines has hit 52 after investigators discovered another six bodies.
If you mix salt water with fresh water you create instant carbon-neutral energy – the process is called osmotic power and the world’s first osmotic power plant has just opened.
Stanford scholars are considering the legal implications of using robots – with issues extending beyond personal injury and property damage to criminal and civil rights.
Why do people resist going to the doctor? A writer recently diagnosed with cancer explores an ingrained reluctance to self preserve.
The UK government knew that the Bush administration wanted to tackle Saddam Hussein years before the invasion of Iraq, but knew it was “unlawful.”
Google has apologized for a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama that appears when users search for images of the first lady.
Wikileaks is today releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts from the 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The Large Hadron Collider has suddenly burst into life and started smashing proton beams together for the first time.
One of the more unexpected things you could hear from the mouth of a recent Nobel laureate is, “Look, I don’t want to see heroes around. I believe in a […]
As one of my professors used to joke, any field with the word “science” in its name is probably not a science. If you have to explain that what you’re […]
It’s no big surprise that the British Broadcasting System is ruling out putting their content behind a paywall. After all, the BBC receives $230 dollars a year in taxes from […]
“You know what the greatest talent in the world is?” asks the Hollywood bigshot in John Guare’s terrific play The House of Blue Leaves. “To be an audience. Anybody can […]
There has been outrage at the revelation that British police have garnered the world’s biggest DNA database without proper regulation or debate.
China has put to death two of the key players in a milk poisoning scandal that led to the deaths of six infants in 2007.
An internet romance that ended in the disappearance of a woman has left police with a homicide investigation but no evidence and no body.
A 14-year-old girl could be charged as an accomplice to the gang-rape of her ninth-grade classmate after she spoke to reporters last week.
Brain scans have been used in a murder trial for the first time ever to try to prove that the defendant is a psychopath.
A more intrusive iPhone worm than the recent “Rick Astley” hack is worrying Apple as it puts sensitive information under threat of exploitation.
A TV pay-per-view service is now available for the Nintendo Wii in Japan—but there’s no sign that it’s heading stateside just yet.
Burma’s Muslim minority are fleeing the region in large numbers to live in self-made refugee camps and try to find transport to Malaysia.
A Chinese dissident who criticized the government after a school collapsed, killing thousands of children, has been sentenced to three years in jail.
A 13-year-old boy with learning difficulties spent 11 days in the New York subway because he thought his parents were mad at him.