Recent economic hardships have made the Great Depression something of a cultural hot topic. Is that making the economy worse? It’s hard to believe that in a world where the […]

It makes sense that the world is currently in the midst of a board game boom. While America’s overall toy sales dropped 3% last year, board game sales actually increased […]

Susan Boyle, an aspiring singer, rocks the house on Britains Got Talent 2009. Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009Uploaded by moovieblog

Perhaps it was a late arrival of American-style materialism that inspired dictators to cozy up with luxury and largess. So where have all the glam dictators gone? Hussein, Qadaffi, Mugabe […]

Gide, Sherwood Anderson, Ludwig Lewisohn, Faulkner, George Moore, Dostoyevsky, Huysmans, Bourget, Arsybashev, Trumbo, Galsworthy, Meredith. Plus the poems of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Tibullus, Heine, Pushkin, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, and the […]

If there's one asset that doesn't need any further protections in this life or the next it's the estate tax, according to the LA Times. An op-ed framed the non-issue […]

Though we haven't yet seen the complete implosion of the nonprofit sector since Wall Street collapsed last year, the philanthropic sector is bracing for increasingly bigger hits. In addition to […]

"Facebook is going to try to be a monopoly, why would it not?" asks Columbia University law professor and information monopoly expert Tim Wu. "Fortunately, it's a monopoly of social […]

Forget holing up your money in those suspicious accounts in the Grand Caymans and Switzerland. Delaware, California and 32 other states offer limited-period tax amnesty programs for residents who are […]

Big Think and the Berkman Center present a live stream debate on the future of digital monopolies.

Big Think and the Berkman Center present Peter Thiel vs. Jonathan Zittrain on the Facebook monopoly.

Next week, the fifth Summit of the Americas will be convened in Trinidad and Tabago.  The quadrennial event will represent Pres. Obama's South American debut and, some will say, a […]

Oenologists and discerning winos alike are looking at a disappointing vintage out of southwest France this year. Abnormal weather patterns, a currency imbalance and an increasingly shunned elitist tag are […]

Perhaps we are here to be Creators?

My idea of success in the business world with a strong structure of education,work ethic and intelligence.

My idea of a newly reformed educational system in America. The concept of a redesigned I.Q. and SAT tests to acknowledge the multiple intelligences.

The Search engines rule the web world. Are you visible or not? Just getting started with making your web presence. Hold your Place and make your online Presence with set of social networking participation.

When given only two very bad impulses to guide human behavior, which one would smart people choose? Times Columnist David Brooks answered the question by wading into the battle of […]

In the largest health care study ever undertaken, researchers from Harvard and Princeton have given high marks to Mexico's most comprehensive health care program, Seguro Popular, for providing care to […]

Obama and Medvedev's entente at the G-20 produced the most fruitful conversation in years on how to reduce the 24,000 nuclear weapons siloed in the US and Russia. Nuclear energy, […]