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Anthony Scaramucci shares his views on who young people should look to as a role model on Wall Street today. Read More
Class of 2012, you’ve heard it before: you will graduate into a world transformed by the global financial crisis. Unemployment among young people is at its highest rate since WWII, and the average 22-year-old now enters adulthood with $23,000 in debt. The total amount owed by students in the U.S ... Read More
Ashley Madison founder Noel Biderman says that "through an affair, through a liaison, and even to some degree through the use of pornography and other things, [married people] can find these cathartic outlets that allow them to stay within that marriage and be that great partner, parent or however they see themselves. Read More
Big Think hit the streets (the intersection of Wall & Broad, NYC) during the AM rush hour this Friday, May 18th with a guerilla theater piece for Facebook IPO day. It's a funny, poignant clash between worldviews on the cultural and economic implications of the rise of the social web. Facebook's ... Read More
What’s the big idea? There is no shortage of online tools to help us research restaurants, track up-to-the-minute news and even plan out our zombie escape routes, yet there are very few tools that can help us research, track and plan our own happiness. One of the few that does exist is Happstr, an ... Read More
Medic Mobile integrates technologies to connect and train health systems. The company uses technologies such as FrontlineSMS, OpenMRS, Ushahidi, Google Apps, and HealthMap to allow healthcare workers to communicate with each other using only $15 phones. Their SIM apps allow large groups of ... Read More
Common Sense Media is an advocacy group for proper media digestion for kids. The website offers reviews of video games, movies, websites, apps, and much more along with parenting tips and articles that are meant to increase a parent's knowledge of what they call "the other parent": the media ... Read More
Cheetah is a four-legged robot that has attained the highest land speeds yet of any robot with legs. The Cheetah, developed by Boston Dynamics, mimics the movements of the real animal and uses hydraulic pumps and a boom to get it running. A free-running version is slated for tests later this ... Read More
DIY Drones is the largest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web. The website allows enthusiasts to analyze, compare, and troubleshoot each other's UAV projects through an open-source atmosphere. The possible uses in our daily lives are endless, from medical emergencies to everyday search ... Read More
Living PlanIT is a company that aims to build the new, sustainable cities of the future. They are teaming up with different partners to help them develop and implement new infrastructure ideas, including buildings that use 50% less energy and 80% less water. Their test city, PlanIT Valley in ... Read More
Votifi is an online platform that encourages positive, nuanced political exchange. After you sign up, the website sends you daily polls through your browser or mobile device and creates a political profile of you based on your responses. The site also breaks down basic political issues and ... Read More
Big Think is pleased to announce we are soliciting application for the following positions: Social Media Editor Big Think is looking for a Social Media Editor to run our daily Facebook and Twitter feeds, edit Big Think's weekly newsletter, as well as expand and develop our presence on other ... Read More
What’s the big idea? Anyone who doubts that the Internet has the potential to bring people together should take a closer look at Neighborgoods, a service that helps users share goods with people living nearby. At first blush, Neighborgoods sounds like it’s just a service for penny pinchers, but ... Read More
Busuu.com is an online network for learning languages. The site offers lessons in a number of languages and the ability to video chat and interact with native speakers - who are also students of another language as well. The site relies on human empathy and the willingness to help others in the ... Read More
Happstr is a mobile app that allows you to mark geographical locations where you're feeling happy, and to see others' "happiness spots" on the map. Happstr challenges users to focus on and record the best moments of their lives, and enables them to benefit from the well-being of others. Research ... Read More
Sonar is a mobile app that lets you know when friends and the friends of your friends are in your vicinity. The app uses information from networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Foursquare and alerts you when people in your vicinity share friends, acting like a good host. The idea here ... Read More
Developed by NeuroVigil, the iBrain is the first portable brain scanner. Unlike other brain scanners, the iBrain simplifies the number of EEG channels to just one, creating a map of brain activity that is more accurate and easier to read. Scientist Stephen Hawking is currently participating in ... Read More
Path is a "smart journal" app for the iPhone and Android. This app is a private social network to share pictures and moments with an intimate circle of friends and family. Path gets smarter as time goes on, updating your location and other statuses automatically. The emphasis on privacy and ... Read More
The NAO is a fully programmable, 57cm humanoid robot made by Alderaban Robotics. This cute robot contains a full array of body language, text and visual recognition, as well as the ability to connect to other devices in your home and other NAOs. The robot's ease of use and likability has made it ... Read More
Vuzix develops video eyewear and personal display devices for a wide range of applications. Their Smart Glasses allow the user to view video in both 2-D and 3-D as well utilize a number of applications. It seems Vuzix is already on the right track to providing us with easily integratable ... Read More
