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The shift to digital will revolutionize television.

A conversation with the contributing editor at Wired Magazine.

Jobs’ rise to CEO was not a guarantee at the beginning.

University of California at Berkeley has long been a hotbed of research on AI.

Media today thrusts users into multiple levels of active experience.

The Internet has created a way to tell stories that is uniquely suited to the medium.

Wired editor Frank Rose comes to Big Think tomorrow to discuss the changing landscape of media, entertainment and advertising. Post your questions for him here. With over 30 years in […]

How do great people get so much done? If you're Ben Franklin, you lay out a detailed schedule.

Q: How long would it take the average Walmart employee to earn as much as its CEO? A: 1,000 years.

            The Frankenstein metaphor that opponents of genetically modified food use to promote their fears is more apt than they realize. Yes, the monster is an unnatural life form created […]

I wrote a short post on Thursday suggesting that whether you’re a fan or a sworn enemy of the surveillance state, you’d be wrong to condemn the pending prosecution of […]

Author Francine Prose uncovers some unexpected things about the young diarist—most notably that her diary wasn’t a diary at all, but a heavily edited and re-written memoir.

The man who first demonstrated the power of neural networks introduces capsule networks.

Interview with Jason Silva by Frank Rose One afternoon recently I spent a couple of hours with Jason Silva, the longtime Current TV host who’s been making much-talked-about micro-videos about the […]

After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.

It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.

One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.

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Here's your gateway to enjoying the best of literature.

Most cities reeked of death, defecation, and industrial waste. Still, focusing only on stench means turning a blind eye (or nose) to the many other smells that helped shape human history.

At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it. 

Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we've been doing.

Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where's everyone else?

Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we're going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.

Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.

Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?

Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]

A strange philosophical thought experiment forces us to ask if the world can be completely described in physical terms.

Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for "double sweet") has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.

ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple's gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects