On Tuesday night, I attended a debate at NYU's Skirball Center that was part of the Intelligence Squared debate series, "Resolved: The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion". Supporting […]

What happens when the complexity and magnitude of the problems facing our civilization "simply exceed our biological capabilities"? Sociobiologist Rebecca Costa argues this has triggered the demise "of every advanced […]

What happens when the complexity and magnitude of the problems facing our civilization "simply exceed our biological capabilities"? 

N.A.S.A.'s latest Mars rover will launch later this month. The size of an S.U.V. and powered by decaying plutonium, it will search for water and past signs of life beneath the martian soil. 

To combat global warming and the urban island heat effect, Mongolia is launching the world's largest ice-making experiment. It hopes to use the ice to cool its capital during summer. 

China's first attempt to orbit Mars has failed as its probe was attached to the unsuccessful Russian probe currently stuck in Earth's orbit. But China, as a space power, is just budding. 

So my previous post clearly irked most BIG THINK readers.  They didn't want to address the fact of the birth dearth in the United States, Europe, Japan, and so forth.  […]

In a previous post, I wrote about the Arab Spring's effect on women and and whether it may actually be a setback for human rights. It so happens that in […]

A Russian space probe on its way to Mars, currently stuck in Earth's orbit, will fall back to Earth along with stores of toxic fuel. Under international law, Russia is liable for damages.

Titanium dioxide, a nearly ubiquitous but wholly unsung material, benefits the environment by eating air pollutants. It is increasingly used to build green infrastructure in cities.

“We may have democracy or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,” Justice Louis Brandeis famously said, “but we can’t have both.” That, in essence, was […]

Can we be aware without actually paying attention? In other words, can our brains somehow imbibe visual information from the outside world without any conscious effort on our part? It […]

Today the Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park. Regardless of one's political or economic persuasions, this act will be seen as having been cavalier and performed without […]

A new venture aims to foster stability in war-torn regions through an act of creative destruction: acquiring AK-47s and transforming them into rare jewelry, watches and accessories.

What do Asian men and African American women have in common? Both are searching for love in very competitive marriage markets and, according to market forecasters, individuals in these groups […]

Two-thirds of online adults now use social media, and mainly to connect with family and friends. Few use these platforms to flirt or find new friends, a survey has found.

The internet went crazy Sunday night after Black In America: The New Promised Land- Silicon Valley. Twitter, the place on the internet where the wired segment of Afro America goes […]

The argument over pseudonyms–the “nym wars”–is at the heart of Salman Rushdie's recent tussle with Facebook and how the Internet might be organized in the future.

Seth Godin takes marketers to task over their failure to adjust to the internet revolution which has seen the cost of cost of a new customer plunge, in some cases to close to zero.

As NYC police attempt to clear Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, it seems appropriate to reconsider who OWS is and what they want. To me, their goals […]