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A lot of the powers found in the comics exist in real life. They’re just a bit different.
A Clinton Global Initiative event at Northeastern University highlights the work of its alums.
The size of the global 3D printing market, including 3D printer sales, materials and associated services, is predicted to reach $16.2 billion by 2018, a growth by over 500 percent. […]
Ned Resnikoff picks up on my old post, via a terrific recent one by Daniel Little, on the radicalism of John Rawls’ position on economic liberty: If we’ve to fairly […]
The crisis of liberal capitalism has been made more serious by the rise of a potent alternative: state capitalism, which tries to meld the powers of the state with the powers of capitalism.
China’s rising credit agency Dagong Global has downgraded the credit rating of the U.S., Britain and Germany while raising China’s. Is power in the global financial network in flux?
n nWhen I listened in on the Xerox conference call a few weeks ago, they mentioned a slew of innovative new products scheduled for the first half of 2007, but […]
n Steinstücken is the southernmost part of the Berlin Ortsteil (borough) of Wannsee, almost adjacent to the UFA film studios. From east to west, it’s no more than 500 metres wide, […]
What happens when an artist loses his or her creative currency – the capacity for self-expression? That’s exactly what happened to legendary Los Angeles graffiti artist Tony Quan, a.k.a. Tempt […]
Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we’re witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit “Pantheon.”
For centuries, even after we knew the Sun was a star like any other, we still didn’t know what it was made of. Cecilia Payne changed that.
All scientific theories are limited in scope, power, and application, being mere approximations of reality. That’s why consensus is vital.
Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.
By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.
While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.
Dark matter doesn’t absorb or emit light, but it gravitates. Instead of something exotic and novel, could it just be dark, normal matter?
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Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.
One alchemist’s search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
The carbon market and offsetting system have created “carbon cowboys” and perpetuated forms of neo-colonialism and other inequities.
“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche’s titular character asks in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”
A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI’s impact on jobs.
Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
Hang on to something — or ride the wave — because three big tech trends are about to converge.