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Brown University President Ruth Simmons talks about how the profound impact of one teacher in a high school course changed her life. Her comments were taped on Sept. 21, 2009 […]

GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, a 1978 Dartmouth graduate, says that to consider “change” and “social change” separately is a “losing proposition.” His comments were taped on Sept. 21, […]

Following the resounding success of last week’s “Can Monopolies Save the Internet?” webcast from Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center, Big Think, in collaboration with the Wisconsin School of Business, will […]

Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.

Science cannot be isolated from culture.

How efficiently could quantum engines operate?

Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.

For urban exploration with an ironic twist, go 'bag' all 32 London Borough Tops

A game designer creates games that can change attitudes and behaviors. 

I’ve never understood those weight guessing games offered at your more low-rent carnivals.  Yet, across the country, people hand over their hard-earned dollars, driven by a curiosity about whether their […]

The Dartmouth investment banker and the Princeton professor.It would be interesting to trace the origin of the term “bailout” as applied to the Bush administration’s plan since the phrase has […]

There’s good news and bad news about the openness of scientific information this week. The good news is that you might soon have access to more of it than ever. […]