Latest Blog Posts
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Be Yourself. It Could Save Your Life.
about 2 hours ago
Once, back in college, I declared war on a big, hideous yellow billboard that appeared one day on the previously innocuous wall outside my apartment window. In the wee hours of a Saturday morning, a friend and I crept up to the building's roof and demolished the damn thing with oil-paint-filled ... Read More
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Simon Doonan's Fashion Tips For Mad Scientists
about 2 hours ago
What's the Big Idea? The hypercerebral – and particularly the math and science-minded – have an unfortunate reputation for being totally oblivious to personal appearance. While there are some obvious exceptions to this stereotype, society forgives self-neglect in the brainiac on the general ... Read More
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Prime Innovation Years? Middle Age, Not Youth.
about 9 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? Despite the popular notion that somewhere there is a 20 year-old whose next idea will change everything, successful innovation gets better with age, says new Harvard research. Today, average and median age of the founders of successful U.S. technology businesses ... Read More
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Life's Too Short: How to Read the Right Books
about 10 hours ago
Let’s say you’re in the top fifth percentile of avid readers, tearing through a book a week on average. With such literary gusto raising your sails, you might feel like the entire world is an open book to browse at your leisure. But in actuality, you will hardly scratch the surface of available ... Read More
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Who's the Better Leader? Eli Manning or Tom Brady?
about 11 hours ago
The Case for Eli Manning Leadership is about more than raw talent or personal style. Great leaders must mesh their own talents with the culture of the organization they lead. With Manning, the Giants tradition of toughness is amplified. "The Super Bowl will mark Manning's 130th consecutive start ... Read More
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Was William T. Trego America’s Greatest Disabled Artist?
about 11 hours ago
One of the biggest problems with lists is that with lists come labels. A list of African-American artists or women artists already sets them up as different (and perhaps less, somehow) than artists on another list. But sometimes lists also celebrate difference and how individuals overcome ... Read More
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Can the White House Bring Back Manufacturing?
about 12 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? President Obama wants the government to show some initiative in bringing manufacturing jobs back from overseas. That could mean cutting taxes for manufacturers making goods in the US, taking away tax breaks for companies who move production overseas, doubling a tax ... Read More
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A Non-Stupid Case for Economic Nationalism
about 14 hours ago
Orthodox globalization declares that any hindrance to rational market efficiency is a Bad Thing. So there's no sensible counter to that unnamed Apple executive in the New York Times' series on outsourcing and working conditions who said "we don’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems. Our ... Read More
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What's the Best Degree for Entrepreneurs?
about 17 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? Individuals with advanced engineering degrees may be more successful entrepreneurs than MBA graduates, according to a new online survey. The business blog Identified combed its Facebook Rolodex and found that engineering post-graduates outnumbered MBA grads three ... Read More
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Innovative Start Up Challenges 'Big Cell'
about 18 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? A start up mobile phone company is refining a business model it believes can challenge the dominance of major cell phone carriers. Called Republic Wireless, the North Carolina-based firm offers unlimited voice, text, and data service for $19 per month, with no ... Read More
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Caravaggio is Italy Incarnate
1 day ago
Italy, says Joseph Luzzi, is a chiaroscuro nation – a land of sharp contrasts. Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard College and the award-winning author of The Blessed Lens: A History of Italian Cinema, calls Caravaggio – the "incarnation" of Italy's dualistic spirit. Caravaggio's works ... Read More
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Caravaggio, Mad Marketing Genius.
1 day ago
Andrew Graham-Dixon, who has been called “the most gifted art critic of his generation,” revisits the scandalous, sensational life of Italian painter Caravaggio and finds in it one model for success in troubled times. What’s the Big Idea? It is a keen irony that the sensitive ... Read More
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The 2012 Election as Technology Showcase
1 day ago
The Obama White House, as measured by its willingness to embrace new technology platforms on a rolling basis, is perhaps the most innovative in history. This week’s Google+ Hangout with the President – essentially an FDR fireside chat updated for the Internet era viewable by millions on YouTube ... Read More
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The Religious War on Reproductive Health
1 day ago
When it comes to reproductive health in America, progress often seems like a one-step-forward-two-steps-back kind of situation. But let's start with some rare good news: in January, the Obama administration announced that most employers would have to cover birth control in their employee health ... Read More
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Did We Just Find Earth's Big Brother?
1 day ago
The fourth potentially habitable planet in our galaxy has just been discovered, 22 light years from Earth. This planet, called GJ 667Cc, is too large to be called Earth's twin. It might more properly be called Earth's Big Brother. GJ 667Cc is 4.5 times the mass of Earth, and it orbits its star in ... Read More
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Asher Edelman
Asher Edelman
Finance, Politics, Art.
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Book Think
Austin Allen
Books, covered and uncovered
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Burn This Book!
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Delanceyplace
Richard Vague
Eclectic excerpts delivered to you daily.
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Devil's Advocate
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Digital Politics
Alan Rosenblatt
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Econ201
DANIEL ALTMAN
From Big Think Chief Economist Daniel Altman: the economic knowledge you need to navigate a volatile world.
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Esoterica
Chris Cunnyngham
Odds and Ends. Mostly Odds.
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Experts' Corner
Big Think Experts
Guest posts from thought leaders
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Floating University
Big Think Editors
Per Ampliora ad Altiora
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Future Crimes
Marc Goodman
Anticipating tomorrow's crimes today
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How to Think Like Shakespeare
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Input/Output
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Inside Employees' Minds
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Learning From The Past
JR Fears
Insights from the classics applied to contemporary moral and philosophical questions.
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Pub Crawl
Aaron Hartzler
A round-up of books, big ideas, and what's next in publishing for young readers.
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Re-Envision
Big Think Editors
An examination of economics, innovation, the environment and social responsibility
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Risk: Reason and Reality
David Ropeik
Why our fears don’t match the facts
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Space Porn
Daniel Honan
Scintillating images from around the cosmos
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Strange Maps
Frank Jacobs
Cartographic curiosities
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The Moral Sciences Club
Will Wilkinson
Clear-headed applications of moral and political theory to current affairs.
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The Unwritten Rules
John Beeson
Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level
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Think Tank
Big Think Contributors
Big ideas in little doses
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Top Five
Big Think Contributors
A fistful of knowledge.
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Waq al-Waq
Gregory Johnsen
Yemen, the Middle East, and the World Beyond
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What Not to Think About
Big Think's Daily Roundup of News to Avoid
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What's New at Big Think
BIG THINK EDITORS
News of our latest interviews with experts
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Age of Engagement
Matthew C. Nisbet
Communication, culture, and public affairs
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Artful Choice
Maria Konnikova
A mindful life, one decision at a time
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As I Please
Mark Seddon
Dispatches from the corridors of British power
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Brain Candy
Big Think Editors
Mind games and optical illusions to chew on.
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Childhood Education
Aaron Hartzler
The Latest From the Annals of Lower Ed.
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Crisis/Opportunity
Ideas that Could Save Us From Impending Doom
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Cue the Future
Tyler Willis
Technology and marketing in the world of tomorrow
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Daylight Atheism
Adam Lee
Freethought in the light of the sun
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Design for Good
Teodora Zareva
Form follows social function
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Disrupt Education
Kirsten Winkler
Envisioning the learning revolution
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Disruptive Demographics
Joseph F Coughlin
Global Aging, Technology & Innovation
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Dollars and Sex
Marina Adshade
The economics of love and sex
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Dr. Kaku's Universe
Michio Kaku
Cutting-edge physics in all its remarkable strangeness
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Education Recoded
Scott McLeod, John Nash, Justin Bathon, Jayson Richardson
Redesigning Learning, Teaching, & Schooling
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Endless Innovation
Dominic Basulto
Innovation and Creativity for the Darwinian CEO
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English Lessons
Lea Carpenter
What We Can Learn From Writing We Love
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Eruptions
Erik Klemetti
Hot stuff from Earth's interior
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Focal Point
Lindsay Beyerstein
Exposing political corruption and championing feminism
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Genius or Crazy?
You decide.
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Group Think
Big questions to which nobody has all the answers.
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Hybrid Reality
Parag and Ayesha Khanna
The co-evolution of humans and technology
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IdeaFeed
Orion Jones
Big ideas from around the web.
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Law Think
Leon Glenister, Justin Glenister, Yaaser Vanderman, Dónal Kearney, Jason Gots
Timely and timeless legal and human rights issues facing the UK and the world.
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Marriage 3.0
Pamela Haag
Troubles, Triumphs, and Curiosities of the Post-Romantic Age
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Mind Matters
David Berreby
Human behavior in a post-rational world
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Picture This
Bob Duggan
Looking at art leads to thinking about life
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Politeia
Robert de Neufville
American politics and the divisive culture wars
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Read This Now!
Big Think Editors
Grippingly written, brain-changing books of the moment
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Resurgence
Kris Broughton
The intersection of race, culture, and politics
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Rightly Understood
Peter Lawler
A conservative take on the world
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Storming the Ivory Tower
College, reconsidered
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The Big Brouhaha
Questions almost certain to generate controversy.