Intelligence in the Wild Kingdom

" Throughout history, intelligence has often been considered a quality unique to humans, but that conventional wisdom has been shattered over the years as research continues to turn up examples of animals, birds and fish that can develop vocabularies, communicate and even...

What Have They Changed Their Minds About?

This one can occupy your mind for some time. The question is what did you change your mind about in 2007 and the people who answered include Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Richard Dawkins, Esther Dyson, Clay Shirky and more. I will be returning to this one. For politicos-- check...

Second thoughts on life, the universe and everything

"When tackling subjects as diverse as human evolution, the laws of physics and sexual politics, scientists and philosophers, including Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Paul Davies and Richard Wrangham, all confessed yesterday to a change of heart. "

The Search for Latino Leadership & Cultural Pride

"Where are our leaders? The people that are currently trying to lead Latinos are filled with selfish intention and have no regard for the historical value of our place in the world. They play to the pain felt by the hardship of many who live barely surviving, with little to...

Medical Illustrator David Bolinsky among the world’s greatest thinkers and ...

David Bolinsky, medical illustrator and founder of XVIVO an award-winning medical animation studio, is one of the latest speakers at the annual TED conference. XVIVO teamed up with Harvard to create the one medical animation we’ve all come to know and love, the Inner...

Holocaust? What Holocaust?

"  TEHRAN, (Reuters) - Iran opened a conference on Monday to examine the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill Jews, drawing condemnation in the West and criticism from Iran's Jewish community. Jewish rabbis were present at the...

Reading Dissident Web Sites

POLL ---- Who should be prevented from reading, or allowed to read, dissident web sites?

Orwell Today

"Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still failed to reach a firm decision. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written..."

The Romance of Economics

"One doesn't interview a man like Milton Friedman--the Nobel laureate in economics in 1976 and among the five or six most consequential thinkers of the 20th century--without doing some assiduous homework."

Over 500,000 copies are sold throughout the world EVERY YEAR

George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". What is the secret of this book that makes people all over the world keep buying it, year after year, after year? That 500,000 copies sold every year, only counts the English language translation. This book is translated into...