Search Results

Lisa Price, president and founder of Carol’s Daughter, a line of beauty products, discusses how to turn a hobby into a successful business.

Climate activists’ brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.

“Unimaginable!” roared Parisian newspaper headlines on August 23, 1911, the day after the Louvre discovered that someone had stolen Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa. Who, everyone asked, took La Joconde, […]

A second Mona Lisa? One made even earlier than the one hanging in the Louvre? It sounds almost too good to be true, and probably is. A Swiss-based organization calling […]

If you saw someone dying before your eyes, wouldn’t you do everything possible to save them? Is there ever a case when saving someone (or something) is the wrong choice? […]

He made more money as a handyman than as an artist, but Vincenzo Peruggia’s personally responsible for making the Mona Lisa what it is today. Leonardo da Vinci painted Lisa […]

Capitalism has solved the need to keep wages low and consumption high by bringing future consumption into the present by dramatic extensions of credit.

When economies melt, entrepreneurs reign and start-ups are the new blue chips. Big Think asked Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito, Freelancers Union Founder Sara Horowitz, Harvard Business School Professor Nancy […]

Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.

“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?

For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.

Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.

In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.

Predicting how emerging technologies will impact industry is more difficult than it seems—and it seems plenty difficult.  The reason is that we envision the future based on the present. We […]

The neoliberal call for more ‘choice’, seems hard to resist.

Is that such a bad thing?

UNHCR data shows a small but intriguing flow of refugees from countries like France, Germany and the UK

New research suggests that a healthy supply of locally-sourced beer helped maintain the unity of the widespread Wari civilization for about 500 years.

Are we just making a profit from human emotions?

Economic “degrowth” may be difficult to achieve, but a “prosperous descent” is possible.

Among the hundreds and thousands of codes that have been broken by cryptographers, the government, and even self-taught amateurs tinkering around at home, there remain a small few of codes and devices which have yet to be cracked by anyone.

On Sept. 2, a fire spread through Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, devouring the historic building and most of its 20 million culturally and scientifically important items. We look at nine priceless artifacts and collections likely lost in the blaze.

Debates about the kind of sex that we should be having are focused on the issue of individual choice and sexual autonomy. We are living, it seems, in the age of consent.

Scientists are supposed to reach their conclusions after doing research and weighing the evidence but, in economics, conclusions can come first, with economists supporting a thesis that fits their moral worldview.  

Is “alloparenting” the end of family as we know it?  

Scientists share that thing they want everyone to know on Twitter with the hashtag #MyOneScienceTweet.

Warning: these maps might leave a strange taste in your mouth

“Plan your family on the go,” a new campaign says. The London Sperm Bank thinks women might appreciate selecting a sperm donor the way they find a date on the hook-up app Tinder. 

Is this a map of Europe’s future?

Have you ever emerged from the supermarket and wondered why you bought so many things not on your list? Congratulations, you’ve likely been manipulated!