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Nick Kristof has an idea for fixing the Catholic Church: Turn it “upside down”! Take power away from the “old boys’ club” at the Vatican, where a dark cloud hovers […]
“If a regime is hellbent on turning a journalist into a spy,” Paul Martin writes, “it can simply put him on trial in a closed court, announce a verdict, list […]
The Human Body Shop may be just around the corner: In 50 years, the advancing technologies of medicine and tissue engineering could change everything.
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The economist remembers a famous Theodore Roosevelt quote: “Fear the emergence of a financial aristocracy.”
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Because of structural changes, crises could now become more frequent, and the most obvious source of danger now is in emerging markets.
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The system of beliefs and incentives caused the financial crisis, says Simon Johnson.
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A core group of bankers have become so powerful they can do enormous damage to society—and they really don’t care.
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At a White House gathering in early 2009, the administration bailed out the banking system without addressing the problems on Wall Street that caused the financial meltdown.
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A conversation with MIT professor and Peter Institute for International Economics senior fellow.
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Twitter or no Twitter, our social networks are basically as small and close as they were in ancient Rome.
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To succeed in business, you don’t want to be too densely interconnected with entities that resemble you—or too diffusely linked to entities that don’t resemble you.
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Influencing tastes across social networks is a tricky business: a love of “Love Actually” spreads differently than a love of “Pulp Fiction.”
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Social networks “magnify whatever they’re seeded with”—from germs to altruism to a diet of muffins and beer.
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Like atoms in a molecule, we’re all linked together. Studying the complex matrix that results can illuminate everything from bucket brigades to Bernie Madoff.
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The social networks we form add up to a giant “human superorganism.”
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A conversation with the Harvard physician and social scientist.
Today marks the first installment of Big Think’s newest series, “Moments of Genius,” sponsored by Intel. We sat down with math and science thought leaders—from the inventor of the very […]
Today Big Think is pleased to welcome the very talented Maria Popova, of Brain Pickings fame, to our regular blogging team. Known for “curating eclectic interestingness” from around (and beyond) […]
“The idea of America is that we all have our own unique voices…and that’s the same as guitar.Guitar is not an instrument that’s stuck in a canon, or stuck in […]
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Why has the “Life of Pi” author been sending novels to the Canadian prime minister?