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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

Why should we differentiate between a blog, micro-blog, "idea", macro-blog, and macaroni and cheese? Really, we should just say "thing".
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“10 Under 25” young expert Alex Epstein on the politics of Katrina.
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The organizer says continuous re-evaluation is tremendously important to success.
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The organizer says the mindless forms of volunteering should be eliminated from high school curricula.
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After seeing an immense parallel with issues of inequality, the organizer started another project in New York.
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The organizer explains what he does to keep faith in rebuilding effort.
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The organizer traces NY2NO’s history from student group to non-profit status.
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When he was 14, the organizer went to volunteer with his parents to help with the cleanup and was forever changed.
Ever since influencial D.C. blogger Ana Marie Cox twittered that Twitter is now a search engine, I searched the micro-blog site for bonus chatter. Here’s what I found: sstroeer: Guys […]
The future Harvard MBA best case study of Communist China took down speculators! What next? Lesson we learnt (Ask Donald Tsang, he may come to NY soon!): No major regulation changed (So Lehman Brothers debacle or may be SWINDLE happened in HK again in 2008), No transformation, innovation and improvement of the industry after intervention!
As the Barack Obma attempts to repair America’s shattered reputation abroad, he is met with resistence from countries that are still scarred from eight years of Bush. Right? Or, is […]
This week television series Battlestar Galactica travelled to where few shows have gone before—a United Nations summit. Sound surreal?  You can watch the full 2-hour summit here and see just […]
President Obama may have gone on Jay Leno last night to reach out to the everyday American, but this week the Administration has been quietly reaching out to the rest […]
In an attempt to mend tenions between city and suburb, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, unveiled his massive urban planning effort last week. Will “Grand Paris” serve as a […]
There wasn’t any lack of Americans enjoying an extended liquid lunch on St. Patrick’s Day. But surprisingly, the one day of the year where everyone suddenly becomes Irish wasn’t a […]
In the media’s continuing coverage of how the economy is ruining all the best laid plans of higher education, the New York Times asks, how many public research institutes does […]
Market-research leader Neilsen studied the opening and closing of retail stores nationwide between 2001 and 2008 and published the winners and losers. The most affordable consumer alternatives saw growth with […]
What happens when you type your name into Google? How about when you click the ‘images’, ‘news’ and ‘blogs’ buttons? If you don’t know the answer, it may be time […]
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“He made us think” would be a very nice epitaph.
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How a “literate preacher” crafts his sermons.