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Imagine that the Journal ofHypochondriacal Cardiology reported that the incidence of fatal strokes aboard cruise ships was five times the national average. Should we conclude that the boat trips were […]
Part One of Two I often receive e-mails from my fans who state that my ability to popularize science and technology is reminiscent of the late Carl Sagan; This got […]
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Physical stamina is very important, as is a sensitivity to sound, emotion, and beauty.
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Midori Goto doesn’t lift weights or try to build muscle but she is “very conscious of having to warm up correctly” in order to handle the physical and mental strain […]
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Midori Goto treats her priceless 276-year-old violin like a partner rather than an extension of herself.
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The photographic artist walks us through the backstory of several images from his series about oil.
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You have to “give yourself over to the visual experience” and try to understand an image’s intellectual and psychological context.
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Today’s technology allows “casual happy snappers” to come up with some cool images. But ultimately the strength of good photography is in knowing one’s self and responding to emotions.
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The photographer says there’s a sense of melancholy and sadness in his work relating to “the destruction to the creation of the things that we build” and the resulting loss […]
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The photographer walks us through his process of finding subjects, scouting out locations and scenes, and looking for the best moment to take a photograph.
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A conversation with the photographic artist.
Today we introduce our newest blog, Dollars and Sex, written by Marina Adshade, an economics professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There she teaches a popular undergraduate course […]
Interior design star Thom Filicia just stopped by the Big Think offices to tell us a thing or two about good taste and what it takes to be a tastemaker. […]
While the large banks have survived in one form or another, a spate of small- and medium-size banks are closing across the country at a rate of four to six […]
Making America fall in love with Don Draper is dangerous, because we will want to be him, or be with him, and both of these will bring moral compromise.
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Stephen Hawking says all we have to do is survive another two hundred years and the human race will be saved, because by that point human settlements in space will […]
Good communication is a matter of getting “in sync” with others, as you’ve probably noticed when you’ve seen people match their steps perfectly as they walk, and imitate each other’s […]
How much is being American worth to you? Or British, Japanese, or German? The value of one’s nationality is largely intangible, but Nobel laureate Gary Becker tells Big Think that […]
While many minorities in our society face discrimination, being gay is a little different, according to GLAAD President Jarret Barrios. “You don’t wear that on your sleeve,” says Barrios. “It’s […]