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The global risk expert explains the three crucial things you must know if you plan to invest in the developing world.
The New York Times chief theater critic points to key instances where lines from Shakespeare are taken out of context and misunderstood.
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As part of Big Think’s “How to Think Like Shakespeare” series, our panel discusses the most common misunderstandings and misapplications of Shakespeare.
“Shakespeare steals stories from everybody, but what he does with those stories is clearly an act of his imagination and his will,” says Kahn.
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Einstein believed that free will was just an illusion, and that awareness of this lack kept him from taking himself and others too seriously. But Einstein was plain wrong, says […]
A laser fired from a US warship off the California coast has ignited a nearby boat. This is the first time that the high-energy laser (HEL) has been fired from […]
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If you ask conservative and liberal judges whether George W. Bush is a war criminal for invading Iraq, you are unlikely to find agreement. But ask them about Henry V, […]
The Beatles take on the roles of the “rude mechanicals,” performing the Pyramus and Thisbee scene from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1964.
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The global risk expert explains how the Saudi royal family is like the Vatican.
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Mubarak is gone, but the military is still there and will remain the most powerful player in that country for a long time.
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While technology may not have sparked the fire in the Middle East, it has helped people pressure their governments to reform.
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There’s no doubt Wall Street’s over-leveraged risk-taking was a key cause of the financial crisis. Many critics charge there has been little or no accountability. And yet, will putting bankers […]
Stanford University’s Susan McConnell explains brain development like “a play that follows a script, that is written down by the genetic code, performed by actors who “have never spoken their […]
Henry V is perhaps the most famous (and complicated) leader in Shakespeare. Here, he is portrayed by Sir Laurence Olivier in his famously propagandistic 1944 film, meant to rally the […]
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Michael Kahn directed two very different stage versions of Shakespeare’s Henry V, which helped him realize the full complexity of leadership.