“Well I had grown up with everybody else’s expectations. And so when you reach a certain age, you decide whether you own those expectations or you reject them.”

“Most of the black people that I knew growing up looked and sounded and talked just as I do.”

As Noah Feldman shows us in “A Prison of Words,” his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, “refinements” filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety […]

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Sarah Lyall likens it to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Know an exceptional young talent under the age of 25? Think they would be a good candidate for the web’s most engaging global thought forum? Big Think is launching a […]

Old politicians never die. Now, they don’t even have the courtesy to fade away. Are you ready for the has-been campaign of 2010? As the rest of the world recovers […]

The dean outlines his short and long-term recommendations for a sustained recovery in the US economy.

Explaining some of my personal artistic ideas and processes

While nearly everyone knows that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, nobody seems to know that March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day. While there have been some traditional Italian celebrations […]

The environmentalist’s horror image of an oil spill is usually the affliction to wildlife—birds and fish coated in black crude, struggling to move or to breathe. But a study by […]

One overlooked facet amid all the upheavals spurred by the digitization of global media is how it has thrust foreign reporters into the public sphere in their once exotic foreign […]

The Darkest Age of Journalism Take 2: Cramer vs Jon Stewart The bravest and noble Lady Katharine Graham, the late Publisher of Washington Post was long gone! The spirit of young, hungry and innocent Bob Woodward was gone too!

Deborah Berebichez Foresees a New Generation of Scientists.

Deborah Berebichez Predicts Changes in the Financial Sector.

The Science Babe, Deborah Berebichez, on global collaboration.

Deborah Berebichez Explains Why Women Are Underrepresented in Science.

Carlo Ratti Qualifies How the Internet Creates Democracy.

Carlo Ratti on the economic philosophy of Buckminster Fuller.

Carlo Ratti Introduces the Sensible City Lab.