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Scientists have developed the first artificial hand with feeling.
New research shows growing numbers of homeless lost houses to foreclosure.
A new federal policy will be launched today advocating dope for medical use.
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Kurt Andersen grants that drugs and alcohol offer few benefits and almost certainly don’t enhance creativity, yet the author does believe that they can play a key role in making […]
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For Kurt Andersen, mistakes are trivial and easily forgotten—unless the effort was uninspired to begin with.
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Kurt Andersen worries that America’s political conversations are turning into polarized and specious ‘echo chambers.’
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Despite the surfeit of bad habits that Americans have picked up during years of prosperity, Kurt Andersen feels that a new form of citizenry is starting to emerge that will […]
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While corporate culture has long attracted talented graduates with the promise of status and security, Kurt Andersen believes that our era’s sense of urgency and instability is pushing America’s youth […]
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Kurt Andersen has worked across a wide variety of mediums, yet nothing compares to the challenge of writing fiction. Here he gives advice on everything from mapping out a project […]
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While subversive novelists have historically stood as a spokesperson for their generations, Kurt Andersen believes that, in today’s world, the serious writer is destined for obscurity.
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Big Think interviews the author and host of Studio 360.
Microsoft's Chairman has an eye on Africa.
The edge of our solar system is nothing like we thought.
The origins of aggression.
Is the South African government in bed with Airbus?
A baby hits the rails and suffers a bump on his head.
First Lady as an action figure?
A text message that saved.
An accident full of hot air.
Fashion historian Caroline Weber will never forget the time she was riding the Metro in Paris while wearing a pink vintage cape. "Within five minutes I was incredibly uncomfortable because […]