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The new Google tool, Google Goggles, which allows users to search using pictures and not words, will exclude faces from its results for fear of a privacy backlash.
The US and Russia are reportedly closing in on a successive arms reduction treaty which would further slash their nuclear arsenals and solidify good diplomatic relations.
A new report from the University of California, San Diego, suggests that the average American household consumed a staggering 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.
Facebook has announced measures to encourage its 350m users to make their status updates and shared content visible to the search engines – and the world at large.
Five young Americans detained in Pakistan had gone to the region with the intention of joining a jihad, or holy war, according to a statement from police officials.
President Obama, who arrived in Oslo to collect his Nobel Peace Prize today, has angered Norwegians over his decision to cancel a series of events normally attended by the winner.
Aside from their times as American presidents, there are few things connecting Ulysses Grant, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, FDR, and Barack Obama. As Big Think’s new guest James McManus points […]
What happened in New York's 23rd district is just the beginning. A recent Rasmussen poll of likely voters found that if the so-called "conservative base"—the people behind the national "tea […]
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By taking ownership of certain ideas, Republicans made the opposition seem like weaklings in key areas like defense.
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A lack of promising candidates plague a party that is otherwise ripe for a takeover.
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Some factions of the right wing wanted drastic change, while others fought for the status quo.
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The Grand Old Party has always benefited from old money, big business, and hardcore social conservatives, says the NYU historian.
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A conversation with the assistant professor of history at the Gallatin School at New York University.
Today Big Think hosted renowned management expert Bill George, professor of management at Harvard Business School and author of "7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis." George shared his firsthand experience […]
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The former Poet Laureate recites one of her latest poems from the collection entitled, "Sonata Mulattica."
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Rita Dove recites a German poem that continues to move her.
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Rita Dove looks forward to the day she won’t have to deconstruct how a black woman does her hair in the morning.
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As Poet Laureate, Rita Dove learned that many people are frightened of the subject.
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Rita Dove offers advice for those looking to make a career out of poetry.
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Rita Dove explains her tendency to write in the middle of the night, and her unique filing system for drafts of poems.