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You Can’t Live in Dissatisfaction Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 18:22:09 -0400 It was as though a spontaneous performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream broke out next to us on the sidewalk. My husband and I were on our way home from dinner in the Lower East Side, a neighborhood celebrated for surreal encounters. On that summer’s night, three years ago ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/kWzjtYXkWnU/you-cant-live-in-dissatisfaction
Should Psychologists Just Butt Out of Politics? Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 17:36:02 -0400 Strictly speaking, a "psychopundit" is William Saletan's term for a scholar who uses psychology to explain what's wrong with people who don't vote for Democrats or recycle or otherwise agree with the pundit's left-wing views. But why limit the coinage to liberal malcontents? "Psychopundit" could ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/zdKwo3Gbsjk/should-psychologists-just-butt-out-of-politics
Why We Probably Aren't Alone in the Universe Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 15:15:00 -0400 What's the Latest Development? While the Kepler space telescope continues to find planets outside our solar system, the debate over extraterrestrial life, so to speak, rages on. Paul Davies, physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, argues that even given recent discoveries, the ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/gYqntvzG8SM/why-we-probably-arent-alone-in-the-universe
How Technology Can Help Us Find Happiness Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 15:06:22 -0400 What’s the big idea? There is no shortage of online tools to help us research restaurants, track up-to-the-minute news and even plan out our zombie escape routes, yet there are very few tools that can help us research, track and plan our own happiness. One of the few that does exist is Happstr, an ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/FA2bN0vESeQ/how-technology-can-help-us-find-happiness
Do You Dream of Space? A $10 Raffle Ticket Could Get You There. Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 13:34:13 -0400 Get this: there is a startup called I Dream of Space that is selling posters for $10 that also come with the chance to win a trip to space. In other words, your $10 ticket could be worth a $200,000 seat on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo or a $95,000 trip on XCOR Aerospace's Lynx. Apparently the ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/Kgw-KnntTCU/do-you-dream-of-space-a-10-raffle-ticket-could-get-you-there
How the Moon Could Quickly Become a Boomtown Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 13:30:00 -0400 What's the Latest Development? When it comes to mining the moon for precious resources, the question is "when", not "if", says Dr. Leonhard Bernold, an engineering professor at the University of New South Wales. We know the lunar surface contains abundant amounts of so-called rare Earth metals ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/1psGvpHMrbo/how-the-moon-could-quickly-become-a-boomtown
Initial Public Offering – Big Think's "Theater of Ideas" Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 13:27:41 -0400 Big Think hits the streets (the intersection of Wall & Broad, NYC) this Friday, May 18th with a guerilla theater piece for Facebook IPO day. It's a funny, poignant clash between worldviews on the cultural and economic implications of the rise of the social web. Facebook's initial public ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/X6SfI8K_H8Q/initial-public-offering-nil-big-thinks-theater-of-ideas
It Could Happen Here: Beware of Hackers Like Rebekah Brooks Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 12:18:35 -0400 I hope that the US authorities are keeping a close eye on proceedings in little old London town involving Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and that of one of his former closest colleagues, the editor of the now closed News of the World newspaper, Rebekah Brooks. She and her husband have now been ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/e6CSv1h8cr4/it-could-happen-here-beware-of-hackers-like-rebekah-brooks-3
Do You Know What's In Your Digital Dossier? Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 Do you know what is in your digital dossier? Since you began to have a life on the Web, data has been accruing about the habits and interests of your online life. The generation of young people emerging in the digital age have the unique experience of having the entirety of their lives immersed in ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/v-6pHnn2U6I/do-you-know-whats-in-your-digital-dossier
How to Build the USS Enterprise and Fly It to Mars Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 11:51:09 -0400 What's the Latest Development? The technical specifications for a real Star Ship Enterprise, the space ship known from the TV show Star Trek, have been released by an engineer whose Web moniker is BTE Dan. While the show predicted the first Enterprise would be built by 2245, Dan believes it can ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/t0H0VwloyLU/how-to-build-the-uss-enterprise-and-fly-it-to-mars
American Cartesianism and the Emerging Right to Same-Sex Marriage Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 10:41:24 -0400 So I'm sorry for yet another relatively pointy-headed post. I'm still thinking about the twin pillars of our modern, scientific self-understanding--Descartes and Darwin. For today, I'm thinking about how the right to same-sex marriage might emerge from a Constitution understood in a consistently ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/HXHUPcS8Y48/american-cartesian-and-the-emerging-right-to-same-sex-marriage
18 Ways that Social Media and Technology Might Change your Love Life (Part 2 of 2) Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 10:17:48 -0400 Here are hypotheses 10 through 18 on how social media might change your love life. Click here for Part 1… ASSORTATIVE MATING ON STEROIDS Like marries like today. “ Assortative mating” is one of the major marriage trends of the last 60 years. We marry people who are more like us in ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/4GKNXyFKpaA/18ways-that-social-media-and-technology-might-change-your-love-life-part-2-of-2
Call for Space Miners Met with 2,000 Resumes Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:45:00 -0400 What's the Latest Development? We're sorry to inform you that the asteroid mining position you were seeking has been filled. Just three weeks after the firm Planetary Resources announced its intention to mine asteroids for water and precious metals, it has received over 2,000 applications from ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/_l2SSEyZdEo/call-for-space-miners-met-with-huge-response
Attacking the Human Genome: Biological-Based Crimes Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 -0400 The successful decoding of the human genome was a phenomenal scientific achievement. For the first time in the world’s history, the entire genetic code of the human species was fully available to scientific researchers. The fantastic accomplishment will provide untold advances in medicine and ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/Mp6CAJpYBKY/attacking-the-human-genome-biological-based-crimes
One Giant Leap for the Private Space Industry Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 08:05:58 -0400 What's the Latest Development? This weekend will mark a major advancement in private space enterprise as the company SpaceX launches an unmanned rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station. SpaceX is one of several companies drawing sizable contracts from the federal government ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/RBL5kpc7CsE/one-giant-leap-for-the-private-space-industry
The Religious War on Women Continues Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:00 -0400 It must be a terribly confusing time to be a member of the Vatican hierarchy. In an effort to stem the accelerating exodus of Catholic laypeople, they've been cracking down on suspected heretics left and right - on nuns who help the poor too much, on priests who want to change the rules of ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/kT8ZfkkHe_4/the-religious-war-on-women-continues
565 - Brit Lit Map Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 02:44:43 -0400 Maps usually display only one layer of information. In most cases, they're limited to the topography, place names and traffic infrastructure of a certain region. True, this is very useful, and in all fairness quite often it's all we ask for. But to reduce cartography to a schematic of accessibility ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/IZuo46GjibU/565-brit-lit-map
A Great Leap for Capitalism: SpaceX Eyes Historic Launch, and Eventually Mars Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Elon Musk is going to Mars. With or without NASA. Of course, the ambitious former PayPal entrepreneur who founded SpaceX in 2002 has to take one step at a time. A very important first step, indeed a milestone, will happen this Saturday, May 19 at 4:55 a.m, when the SpaceX Dragon is scheduled to ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/SAgVKGo9yUc/a-great-leap-for-capitalism-space-x-eyes-historic-launch
Has the Art Market Lost its Mind? Posted on Tue, 15 May 2012 22:19:20 -0400 These are crazy times, so why should the art market be immune? However, there’s madness and then there’s sheer madness. Only half over, the month of May 2012 might go down as the maddest month in art market history (at least until the next spate of insanity). Kicking off with the purchase of a ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/fDJvwgkaDCI/has-the-art-market-lost-its-mind
Open Thread: Complaints & Grievances Posted on Tue, 15 May 2012 18:50:56 -0400 Just a quick note: In the past few days, I've had several complaints about the auto-playing video ads on the right sidebar. Rest assured, I find them just as annoying as you all do. I've written to the management at Big Think, and I've had assurances that they've already been changed so that the ... Read More.. Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/f9bK8Sqkz2E/open-thread-complaints-grievances

You Can’t Live in Dissatisfaction

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 18:22:09 -0400

It was as though a spontaneous performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream broke out next to us on the sidewalk. My husband and I were on our way home from dinner in the Lower East Side, a neighborhood celebrated for surreal encounters. On that summer’s night, three years ago ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/kWzjtYXkWnU/you-cant-live-in-dissatisfaction

Should Psychologists Just Butt Out of Politics?

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 17:36:02 -0400

Strictly speaking, a "psychopundit" is William Saletan's term for a scholar who uses psychology to explain what's wrong with people who don't vote for Democrats or recycle or otherwise agree with the pundit's left-wing views. But why limit the coinage to liberal malcontents? "Psychopundit" could ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/zdKwo3Gbsjk/should-psychologists-just-butt-out-of-politics

Why We Probably Aren't Alone in the Universe

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 15:15:00 -0400

What's the Latest Development? While the Kepler space telescope continues to find planets outside our solar system, the debate over extraterrestrial life, so to speak, rages on. Paul Davies, physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, argues that even given recent discoveries, the ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/gYqntvzG8SM/why-we-probably-arent-alone-in-the-universe

How Technology Can Help Us Find Happiness

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 15:06:22 -0400

What’s the big idea? There is no shortage of online tools to help us research restaurants, track up-to-the-minute news and even plan out our zombie escape routes, yet there are very few tools that can help us research, track and plan our own happiness. One of the few that does exist is Happstr, an ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/FA2bN0vESeQ/how-technology-can-help-us-find-happiness

Do You Dream of Space? A $10 Raffle Ticket Could Get You There.

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 13:34:13 -0400

Get this: there is a startup called I Dream of Space that is selling posters for $10 that also come with the chance to win a trip to space. In other words, your $10 ticket could be worth a $200,000 seat on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo or a $95,000 trip on XCOR Aerospace's Lynx. Apparently the ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/Kgw-KnntTCU/do-you-dream-of-space-a-10-raffle-ticket-could-get-you-there

How the Moon Could Quickly Become a Boomtown

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 13:30:00 -0400

What's the Latest Development? When it comes to mining the moon for precious resources, the question is "when", not "if", says Dr. Leonhard Bernold, an engineering professor at the University of New South Wales. We know the lunar surface contains abundant amounts of so-called rare Earth metals ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/1psGvpHMrbo/how-the-moon-could-quickly-become-a-boomtown

Initial Public Offering – Big Think's "Theater of Ideas"

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 13:27:41 -0400

Big Think hits the streets (the intersection of Wall & Broad, NYC) this Friday, May 18th with a guerilla theater piece for Facebook IPO day. It's a funny, poignant clash between worldviews on the cultural and economic implications of the rise of the social web. Facebook's initial public ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/X6SfI8K_H8Q/initial-public-offering-nil-big-thinks-theater-of-ideas

It Could Happen Here: Beware of Hackers Like Rebekah Brooks

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 12:18:35 -0400

I hope that the US authorities are keeping a close eye on proceedings in little old London town involving Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and that of one of his former closest colleagues, the editor of the now closed News of the World newspaper, Rebekah Brooks. She and her husband have now been ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/e6CSv1h8cr4/it-could-happen-here-beware-of-hackers-like-rebekah-brooks-3

Do You Know What's In Your Digital Dossier?

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400

Do you know what is in your digital dossier? Since you began to have a life on the Web, data has been accruing about the habits and interests of your online life. The generation of young people emerging in the digital age have the unique experience of having the entirety of their lives immersed in ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/v-6pHnn2U6I/do-you-know-whats-in-your-digital-dossier

How to Build the USS Enterprise and Fly It to Mars

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 11:51:09 -0400

What's the Latest Development? The technical specifications for a real Star Ship Enterprise, the space ship known from the TV show Star Trek, have been released by an engineer whose Web moniker is BTE Dan. While the show predicted the first Enterprise would be built by 2245, Dan believes it can ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/t0H0VwloyLU/how-to-build-the-uss-enterprise-and-fly-it-to-mars

American Cartesianism and the Emerging Right to Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 10:41:24 -0400

So I'm sorry for yet another relatively pointy-headed post. I'm still thinking about the twin pillars of our modern, scientific self-understanding--Descartes and Darwin. For today, I'm thinking about how the right to same-sex marriage might emerge from a Constitution understood in a consistently ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/HXHUPcS8Y48/american-cartesian-and-the-emerging-right-to-same-sex-marriage

18 Ways that Social Media and Technology Might Change your Love Life (Part 2 of 2)

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 10:17:48 -0400

Here are hypotheses 10 through 18 on how social media might change your love life. Click here for Part 1… ASSORTATIVE MATING ON STEROIDS Like marries like today. “ Assortative mating” is one of the major marriage trends of the last 60 years. We marry people who are more like us in ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/4GKNXyFKpaA/18ways-that-social-media-and-technology-might-change-your-love-life-part-2-of-2

Call for Space Miners Met with 2,000 Resumes

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:45:00 -0400

What's the Latest Development? We're sorry to inform you that the asteroid mining position you were seeking has been filled. Just three weeks after the firm Planetary Resources announced its intention to mine asteroids for water and precious metals, it has received over 2,000 applications from ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/_l2SSEyZdEo/call-for-space-miners-met-with-huge-response

Attacking the Human Genome: Biological-Based Crimes

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 -0400

The successful decoding of the human genome was a phenomenal scientific achievement. For the first time in the world’s history, the entire genetic code of the human species was fully available to scientific researchers. The fantastic accomplishment will provide untold advances in medicine and ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/Mp6CAJpYBKY/attacking-the-human-genome-biological-based-crimes

One Giant Leap for the Private Space Industry

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 08:05:58 -0400

What's the Latest Development? This weekend will mark a major advancement in private space enterprise as the company SpaceX launches an unmanned rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station. SpaceX is one of several companies drawing sizable contracts from the federal government ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/RBL5kpc7CsE/one-giant-leap-for-the-private-space-industry

The Religious War on Women Continues

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:00 -0400

It must be a terribly confusing time to be a member of the Vatican hierarchy. In an effort to stem the accelerating exodus of Catholic laypeople, they've been cracking down on suspected heretics left and right - on nuns who help the poor too much, on priests who want to change the rules of ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/kT8ZfkkHe_4/the-religious-war-on-women-continues

565 - Brit Lit Map

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 02:44:43 -0400

Maps usually display only one layer of information. In most cases, they're limited to the topography, place names and traffic infrastructure of a certain region. True, this is very useful, and in all fairness quite often it's all we ask for. But to reduce cartography to a schematic of accessibility ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/IZuo46GjibU/565-brit-lit-map

A Great Leap for Capitalism: SpaceX Eyes Historic Launch, and Eventually Mars

Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Elon Musk is going to Mars. With or without NASA. Of course, the ambitious former PayPal entrepreneur who founded SpaceX in 2002 has to take one step at a time. A very important first step, indeed a milestone, will happen this Saturday, May 19 at 4:55 a.m, when the SpaceX Dragon is scheduled to ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/SAgVKGo9yUc/a-great-leap-for-capitalism-space-x-eyes-historic-launch

Has the Art Market Lost its Mind?

Posted on Tue, 15 May 2012 22:19:20 -0400

These are crazy times, so why should the art market be immune? However, there’s madness and then there’s sheer madness. Only half over, the month of May 2012 might go down as the maddest month in art market history (at least until the next spate of insanity). Kicking off with the purchase of a ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/fDJvwgkaDCI/has-the-art-market-lost-its-mind

Open Thread: Complaints & Grievances

Posted on Tue, 15 May 2012 18:50:56 -0400

Just a quick note: In the past few days, I've had several complaints about the auto-playing video ads on the right sidebar. Rest assured, I find them just as annoying as you all do. I've written to the management at Big Think, and I've had assurances that they've already been changed so that the ...

Read More..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/f9bK8Sqkz2E/open-thread-complaints-grievances

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