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The Braille system is one of design's most ingenious feats. Today, designers are using it to bring more ease and joy into the lives of blind people in everything from mundanity to playtime.
Today marks the second installment of Big Think’s newest series, “Moments of Genius,” which is sponsored by Intel and focuses on key discoveries by math and science leaders. In our […]
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The information revolution may turn everyday people into ocean conservationists.
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As the oil spill continues to plague the Gulf, the deep-sea explorer makes a passionate case for saving ocean life.
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You may like the taste, but is your dinner worth its cost to our ecosystem?
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Some sea life may think, sense and feel in ways that are beyond our comprehension.
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Sharks are scary, but an ecosystem without them is even scarier.
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Sylvia Earle describes an intimate encounter with a 40-foot-long humpback whale.
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The ocean’s depths are home to organisms that have been around for nearly half a billion years.
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Forget sharks and predatory animals—the most dangerous aspect of diving is oxygen.
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A young Sylvia Earle realized that some sea creatures were as interested in her as she was in them.
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97% of Earth’s water is ocean. Without the ocean, Earth would be much like Mars: a bleak, barren, inhospitable place.
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A conversation with the oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue.
The word genius tends to get thrown around pretty liberally these days, especially when everyone from Bob Dylan to Mike Myers has been tagged with the superlative. But in an […]
New drilling techniques have driven down the price tag of harvesting natural gas from shale—and set the stage for shale gas to become what will be the game-changing resource of the decade.
Researchers have determined that the protein long suspected of being the "master switch" allowing brains to operate does indeed have that function.
"What constitutes status and sex appeal in the land of the eternally wireless?" Ellen Ruppel Shell thinks it may be the ability to take time away from technology-enabled distractions.
We've spent plenty of time discussing how the Internet is changing the way we read, the way we communicate, and the way we fall in love. But how is the Internet changing the way we eat?
"Lawmakers need to demand that regulators show a real commitment to policing the banking and mortgage industries," writes Michael W. Hudson.
Emily Bazelon thinks that the youth and judicial inexperience of Elena Kagan, President Obama's selection to replace Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court, make her a good choice for the job.