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Microfinance: For Community or for Gain?

Big_Think | 2010-07-30 17:04:26

Microfinance—a system of small loans and money services geared toward small businesses—has been heralded as a bold new financial frontier, opening up a wealth of opportunity to those otherwise una...

Why Senator Menendez Should Question Tony Blair

Big_Think | 2010-07-30 09:30:09

Silence speaks volume. In the unmitigated disaster that is the Gulf of Mexico, two silent partners watch as BP endures a hurricane of criticism, Transocean and Haliburton, who it has been alleged are ...

The New York Philharmonic's Alan Gilbert on What Makes a Great Conductor

Big_Think | 2010-07-30 06:00:00

There's no set formula to what makes a great conductor, says Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic; it's an ineffable quality that you know when you see it. "It's like the duck...

When Secrets Come Cheap

Big_Think | 2010-07-30 03:41:02

No code is unbreakable. Mathematicians may be able design codes that can't be cracked by all the computational power available on earth, but that won't guarantee the security of the encoded data. The ...

The Razor’s Edge Between Nobility and Crime: Who Is Julian Assange?

Big_Think | 2010-07-30 02:07:06

There will be more. Julian Assange has assured us this: there will be more. Do we want more? Will the release of more classified material place more lives at risk? Will it provide further lessons from...

Will Publishing Houses Be Kindle’s First Casualty?

Big_Think | 2010-07-29 23:52:19

Eliminate the middle-man. This classic piece of business advice recently received an unusual interpretation: the literary agent, commonly seen as the middle-man between author and publishing house, is...

Floyd Abrams Explains the First Amendment

Big_Think | 2010-07-29 21:09:55

Famed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams stopped by Big Think's offices today to discuss everything one needs to know about the constitutional amendment which guarantees so many of our basic freedoms...

Forensic Psychiatrist Michael Stone Explains the Neurobiology of Evil

Big_Think | 2010-07-29 17:33:46

Dr. Michael Stone, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia, dropped by Big Think's offices yesterday to talk about serial homicide, torture, mass murder, sexual slavery, and other cheery topics....
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Promoting the devil

pauloCoelho | 2010-07-30 16:44:35

A boy was walking to buy bread when the mayor of the city crossed the street. ‘The reason he is so powerful, is because, he’s made pact with the devil,’ a very devout woman in the street told th...
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