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Sex and gender researcher Lisa Diamond thinks the secret is all about not being defined.
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Eighty percent of gay and straight women who changed sexual orientation report being attracted to both sexes.
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Lisa Diamond has undertaken a 13-year longitudinal study of gay women. The surprising trend? The overwhelming amount of fluidity and transition.
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A conversation with the Professor of Psychology in Gender Studies at the University of Utah.
What just passed through the House of Representatives? Will it help relieve the century-long constipation that has plagued American health care reform? In a conversation with Big Think today, Yale […]
Knowing full well that I tee myself up for easy, Whitney-Houston-themed ridicule, I’m here to say that the children are our future, and that childhood in the Gaza Strip — […]
Because government troops in Guinea massacred civilian protesters at about the same time as I started blogging for Big Think, I’ve committed myself to using this space to track events […]
One word haunts Seymour Hersh’s new investigative piece about the potentially shaky security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal: “mutiny.” As Hersh writes, “the Taliban overrunning Islamabad is not the only, or […]
Like any mere bystander, I’m always at risk of getting etherized by the abstractions of war. So there was something compelling and arresting about hearing writer Mark Danner detail the […]
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Andy Warhol’s art junk? Not even close, according to the director of the Nasher Museum of Art: it’s gone from avant-garde to old standard.
The passing of Obama’s healthcare bill has dismayed abortion-rights groups due to the anti-abortion amendments that have been made.
A French van driver suspected of making off with €11.6m in cash has become an internet star.
Internet viruses are known for being pretty sinister – but what if they could make you an unsuspecting collector of kiddie porn?
Interactive TV could be on the verge of allowing viewers to take part in the on-screen action.
Flooding and mudslides in El Salvador have killed 124 people and dozens of others are missing after three days of rain.
On this day 20 years ago the wall dividing East and West Berlin was toppled heralding an end to the cold war and the division of Germany.
The man suspected of killing 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base had told colleagues that infidels “should have their throats cut”.
Shocking images of a 12-storey building lying flat on the ground in China have led to safety fears and a literal real estate crash caused by overcapacity building.
Another victory for Obama’s healthcare campaign as the House narrowly endorses the reform bill.
The boss of banking giant Goldman Sachs has caused worldwide smirks by claiming banks do “God’s work”.