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At this year’s Lindau meeting of Nobel Prize winners, the virologist Harald zur Hausen said vaccinating only boys against the human papillomavirus would achieve better results.

Former New York Times Ethicist Randy Cohen tackles the ethics of asymmetrical relationships.

From his iconic I ♥ NY logo to his prolific newspaper and magazine designs, Glaser is revered for his exceptional visual output and his thoughtful reflections on the role of design at large.

Former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki says thinking too much about your personal brand is a slippery slope toward egomaniasm.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and Fablevision have just released a short animated film, Above and Beyond, that emphasizes the value of the 4 Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, […]

Astrophysicist David Spiegel and physicist Edwin Turner say that the life here on Earth could be common, or it could be extremely rare—there’s no reason to prefer one conclusion over the other. 

Despite high hopes for a new physics from the world’s largest particle collider, beyond a handful of unusual events, the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider are frustratingly ordinary.

John Boehner’s budget proposal would cause the greatest increase in poverty in U.S. history, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Speaker John Boehner’s […]

No journalist worth his or her salt should rejoice in the downfall of another. There are plenty of commentators in particular that I could name who infuriate me, who have […]

The White House is warning that world markets could react negatively to the game between Democrats and Republics over who will crack first in negotiations over the nation’s debt.

Despite our world now driven by precise measurements of data, being vague, imprecise, unclear and ambiguous may yield benefits in our personal and professional lives. 

Movies are Justin Timberlake’s priority these days, but he also owns a part of MySpace, restaurants, a fashion line called William Rast, a record label and even a golf course.

An improved process for making large amounts of pure metallic carbon nanotubes could hold the key to overhauling the electrical power grid with more efficient transmission lines.

The “Oracle of Oil,” T. Boone Pickens warns that America needs to produce more of its own gas and oil now, and focus for the future on renewable energy sources […]

Responding to both its Buzz disaster and Facebook’s ongoing privacy concerns, Google+ decided to make privacy its top priority: Google has chosen to opt users out of being public. 

Anywhere from 1.8 to 3 million Facebook users will die in 2011, likely transforming those posthumous profiles into digital epitaphs. Dealing with death online is now standard. 

For centuries, the best of radical journalists, campaigners and trades unionists have railed against the British Establishment. They have largely had good cause to do so. The apex of the […]

Every day we have to make decisions that involve evaluating or choosing between options, often without much information to go on. So how do we prevent analysis paralysis?

Neuroscience and game theory may offer some insight into the current stalemate, suggesting that a sense of moral superiority could be disrupting a natural tendency to cooperate. 

We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found.

Former New York Times columnist Randy Cohen tackles the ethics of love in the latest in this Big Think series.

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Passed over for the Secretary of State position, John Kerry has fashioned an active role for himself as a diplomat and foreign policy adviser to Obama. Will he get the job in 2012?

After Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel about the French Holocaust was rejected by some 20 publishers for its dark context, it was finally picked up and promptly sold 5 million copies. 

1 billion people in the world lack clean drinking water and over 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation services. Peter Thum came up with the idea for Ethos Water in 2001 […]

Most have come to believe the dinosaurs were killed off when an asteroid struck the Earth, but some scientists remain sceptical. Will new evidence in the fossil record convince them?  

As climate change affects the ecology of the Pacific Ocean, many marine species will suffer, while two new reports indicate that certain fish and whales may successfully adapt.