Culture & Religion — May 26, 2009

Tomorrow At Big Think: Blogger Steve Rubel

expert and blogger Steve Rubel comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss

the intersection between the new media technologies and marketing

strategies. Post your questions for him here.

Steve Rubel is Senior Vice President and Director of

Insights for Edelman Digital. He is regularly referred to by CNET PC Magazine, Forbes and other magazines for his knowledge of media and

online trends as they affect marketing communications.

Rubel has been included on a number of notable lists including PR

Week’s 40 Under 40, The Forbes.com Web Celeb 25, PC Magazine’s 100

Favorite Blogs, Media Magazine’s Media 100, the AlwaysOn/Technorati

Open Media 100 and the CNET News.com Blog 100.

His blog, Micro Persuasion, follows digital trends and has 50,000 daily readers. Rubel also writes a bi-weekly column in Advertising Age.

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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