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Veneman admits it’s a challenge to find a set of standards that fits every country and context, but argues against a sliding scale of rights.
Steven Pinker's attack on Malcolm Gladwell in the New York Times Book Review was more lucid and entertaining than it was intellectually honest. Pinker's take-away claim is that Gladwell's work […]
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UNICEF head Ann Veneman shares some of the frequently overlooked abuses that children are subject to the world over.
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The former child soldier decries the violence that many children still face.
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Ishmael Beah shares his own experience of being a child soldier.
Spare some change? This past Thursday, the New York Times ran a special section on giving, the big front page story of which was all about giving small. You know, […]
"You Better Not Cry" author Augusten Burroughs treats fans to a second Big Think interview this week, just in time for the holiday season. Famous since his 2001 bestseller "Running […]
An underwater photographer was shocked when a leopard seal tried to feed him a live penguin.
An anti-depressant pill is being hailed as the “female Viagra” after the drug was proven to boost women’s flagging sexual drives.
Research on chimpanzees suggests that human language has its roots in the gestural hand communications of our primate ancestors.
Social-networking site Facebook is increasingly being used as a tool for thieves to target people – but also for cops to catch them red handed.
After Israel released photographs claiming to prove Iran was importing weapons to Hezbollah militia, Iranian news agencies have retorted claiming the images were forged.
Should archaeological artifacts remain in the country in which they were found – or does the law of “finder’s keepers” prevail?
The authorities in India’s Andrah Pradesh have launched an investigation after six new-born babies died in a hospital over the weekend.
Is Lang Lang the most popular pianist on the planet? CNN talks to China’s biggest prodigy a year after he took to the world’s stage.
The police reportedly suggested that gay a gay teenager brutally murdered in Puerto Rico deserved what he got due to his “type of lifestyle”.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi tried to convert 500 “attractive girls” to Islam in Rome yesterday.
Maybe everyone else already knows this, but I was stunned to learn that an utterly pedestrian detail -- the reliability of translation services -- has hurt America's efforts to negotiate […]