In the midst of a battle against cancer, Steve Jobs has resigned as C.E.O. of Apple, the company he saved from bankruptcy to lead the world market in creative computing devices.
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One of the most exciting ideas in modern physics, that gravity is not a traditional force but an emergent one, was dealt a blow based on how the force works at the quantum level.
Federal climate scientists have labeled this year as one of the worst in American history for extreme weather. Blizzards, floods, droughts and heat waves—get used to it, they say.
If talking is one thing, and conversation another, then what is chat? Online chatting has come of age, reviving the lost art of word play that characterized speech in bygone eras.
While the tech talk on Google’s acquisition of Motorola is all about patents, small business owner Gene Marks sees a nightmare of vertical integration ahead, forcing users to take sides.
One in six children fail to read books as they spend increasing amounts of time texting friends, sending emails and visiting social networking sites, a new study has found.
As leadership changes reshape the Middle East, science stands to benefit. New projects are moving forward thanks to interim leadership that wants to bring science back to the region.
Lack of trust is at the root of many of the world’s problems, says the neuroeconomist Paul Zak, who claims to have found the brain chemical, oxytocin, responsible for empathy.
Decision fatigue is the newest discovery involving a phenomenon called ego depletion, a term coined by the social psychologist Roy Baumeister in homage to a Freudian hypothesis.
The most recent research indicates that smoking marijuana causes no long term cognitive impairment and can actually improve performance on some mental tests.
This short documentary is about computer chess history that focuses in particular on the 1997 chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue computer.
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Using publicly accessible databases, researchers have developed a method to predict how existing drugs might be repurposed to treat seemingly unrelated diseases.
A major study on women and smoking released by the World Health Organization last week provides further surprising evidence about how gender differences can affect health.
Sophal Ear describes his family’s relocation by the Khmer Rouge from Phnom Penh to a labor camp.
It may be easier for men to to demonstrate authority associated with traditional leadership, but today’s world calls for collaboration and cooperation, skills which suit women better.
Don’t try this at home (you can only do it in Nevada): Take a ride in Google’s Robocar, which is operated by a machine, not a human. A law passed […]
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This video from Silicon.com features Kevin Warwick, professor at Reading University in England, a pioneer in cybernetics and a former cyborg. Warwick had an electronic chip “fired into his body.” […]
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Just as it’s OK to swear in the office once or twice a year, you may stand up to your boss occasionally. But don’t make a habit of it, because […]
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A new microchip made by researchers at I.B.M. is a landmark. Unlike an ordinary chip, it mimics the functioning of a biological brain, which could open new possibilities in computation.
As the manufacturing industry left American metropolises for the east, our cities became something even greater: idea factories. Cities are the engines of innovation and they are growing.
By changing how light refracts off on object, new cloaking materials can hide tiny microphones placed on a wall—and they will do the job at all visible wavelengths.
Yesterday, TIME named Big Think 2011’s top News & Information website! [Photo credit: Lindsay Beyerstein, all rights reserved.]
The CEO of Ruckus Mobile Media explains how he recognized the digital shift in the publishing industry and decided earlier than others to jump in feet first.
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When breast cancer researcher Dr. Elizabeth Iorns created a free online marketplace for outsourcing scientific experiments, the goals was to improve the efficiency of research.
Despite all the advice that author Bruce Feiler was given about ‘switching off’ and ‘unplugging’ during summer vacation, he found staying connected to the Web was a boon.
China’s oil trade with Africa is dominated by an opaque syndicate. Ordinary Africans appear to do badly out of its hugely lucrative deals with governments in Angola and Zimbabwe.