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In 2011, I wrote “Pro-Family Christians Support Child Kidnapping“, one of the more despicable stories of how the religious right despises and mistreats GLBT people (and that’s really saying something). […]
This essay was previously published on AlterNet. In the summer of 2010, I saw him several times a week: a portly, dark-skinned gentleman, leaning against a pillar in Penn Station […]
Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.
Both nations made missteps, but China still has a chance to make up lost ground.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
The former Nintendo president has become synonymous with the backlash against layoffs — because, like a great leader, he focused on lifting people.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
Tikal, one of the biggest cities the Maya ever built, was home to a vast and flourishing society.
On the menu: stews, cheese, and fermented drinks.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
“I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences.”
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”
It could lead to a massive uptake in those previously hesitant.
“The Expanse” is the best vision I’ve ever seen of a space-faring future that may be just a few generations away.
Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what’s missing.
Google’s “Year in Search 2020” results reveal a year when “why” was searched more than ever.
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here’s your reading list.
New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.
If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]
Americans lost $116.9 billion gambling in 2016.
Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.
America isn’t immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.
Crazy Rich Asians is the first film to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years. It is also a bonafide success, both financially and culturally. Inspired by its fanfare, Big Think looks at seven other films that shook American society.
Maryland officials want lawmakers to support language that would require vendors of elections services to disclose when a foreign actor takes control of one of their companies.
We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?