Women are still greatly underrepresented in elected office—even though new research shows they may be more effective politicians than their male counterparts.
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If the U.S. can use its political and technological advances to grow its way out of this crisis, then the future could be rosy. The other option is much grimmer. Watch
An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more survivable by taking care of a danger or taking advantage of an opportunity. Watch
The British master of suspense once said that women who spent all day doing chores wouldn’t want to watch a film about a woman doing chores. Mike Leigh begs to differ. Watch
Alfred Hitchcock once said, “A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.” But Mike Leigh, another highly acclaimed British filmmaker, calls this assertion rubbish. "I ... Read More
Both in the U.S. and abroad, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle toward equality between genders. Yet now, in certain key power areas women are outpacing and outperforming men. Including top leaders and academics, and rich multimedia elements, today Big Think begins a two-week series on ... Read More
Ninety years after the 19th Amendment guaranteed their participation in American politics, women are still greatly underrepresented in elected office—even though new research shows they may be more effective politicians than their male counterparts. According to the Center for American Women and ... Read More
Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight porn. An actor tested positive for HIV last week. The news sparked panic in the industry because he has reportedly worked with dozens of big ... Read More
Until she was 10 years old, performance artist Marina Abramović believed her parents when they told her that her birthday was November 29th, “Republic Day” in her native Yugoslavia. They moved the date from the actual November 30th to link her birth with the fortunes of her country, which both her ... Read More
To encourage more ecological decision-making at the check-out, recent behavioral studies say governments and businesses should apply peer pressure to consumers.
"High on hope, supporters heralded Obama as the new FDR. Two years later, many feel disillusioned. But FDR's actual record puts today's gripes about Obama into perspective."
Venture capitalist and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel is offering a unique 'scholarship': $100,000 for entrepreneurs under the age of twenty to drop out of college.
"Closing the loophole that encourages foreigners to come to the United States to make their future children U.S. citizens would not address the larger question of birthright citizenship."
There is a 50 per cent chance that time will end within the next 3.7 billion years, according to a new model of the universe put forward by physicists at U.C. Berkeley.
"Religious chauvinism flourishes along with bigotry when ignorance reigns: The less you know about other people's religions, the more blithely you may assert the superiority of your own."
The controversial American charity organization Project Prevention offers cash payments to drug addicts and alcoholics who are willing to forgo having children.
"All anybody is asking is that the rich pay more in taxes—in effect, that they reinvest in society by a little more than they do now." Jonathan Cohn urges a fair tax code.
"Organized religion's increasing identification with conservative politics is a turnoff to more and more young adults. Evangelical Protestantism has been hit hard by this development."
"Can we envision a world without God? Would this world be good?" Dutch primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal says we are no different from apes when it comes to altruism.
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