The painter compares the art world, then and now.

Remaining distanced from the profit motive should help artists make it through the recession, says the painter.

Ross Bleckner on unleashing your inner artist.

The painter reads obituaries to remind him of the purpose of life.

The painter talks about the meditative aspects of sweeping his studio floor.

The painter speaks to the element of struggle that the disease introduces into his work.

The painter can never forget the optimism of the children he met in Africa.

The painter speaks about his work with the United Nations Office of Crime and Drugs in Uganda.

Hooman Majd, the Iranian-American journalist who wrote “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran” will be in the Big Think studio today answering questions about how the […]

The federal government is gearing up once again for the census. Often, the deeper meaning of that decennial account of American demography is lost amidst statewide political bickering. While the […]

Every day, it seems, your DNA spills more and more secrets about you. This time it’s the color of your eyes. Researchers in the Netherlands just published a study in […]

First let me make this clear, it is utterly crucial that we take care of our environment and our world, we only get one and if we totally screw this […]

Water of life. Little water. Little stream. Zhizennia voda. The names under which Russian vodka masquerades are many and varied, as one might expect with the libation at the heart […]

Stephen Wolfram, the computer genius who authored the computational software Mathematica in 1998 and wrote A New Kind of Science in 2002, has built a new search engine. It’s called […]

We Are Team USA NOW!rnrnMilton Friedman had done a mistake in Chile with his “wanton market” theory!rnWarren Buffett was wrong to encourage public to buy stock too early in NYT. rnAlan Greensplan knows noting about COD and CDS until 2005. So he made a lifetime mistake and ruined his name to bring the tsunami recession to America.rnrnThe above all had been wrong and may be wrong again of their opinions in this recession.rnrnrnrnrnrn

Webster’s defines meritocracy as a) a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement, or b) leadership selected on the basis of […]

Brian Doherty, a senior editor at Reason magazine and the author of This is Burning Man and Radicals for Capitalism, reflects on whether the hero of the new graphic novel […]

Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp on the future of schools.

Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp insists education will be the long-term solution to dealing with economic downturn.

Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp discusses the importance of Teach For America’s active alumni network.