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Read More]]> Daniel Honan http://bigthink.com/ideas/is-neuroscience-overrated http://bigthink.com/ideas/is-neuroscience-overrated Belief Science & Tech Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500 What’s The Big Idea? A 1993 paper in Nature announced that subjects listening to Mozart displayed increased cognitive activity through “enhanced spatial-temporal reasoning.” All the sudden, people started running to the local record store to pick up Wolfgang’s greatest hits. Search “Mozart” and ...

Read More]]> Brian Hoffstein http://bigthink.com/ideas/hurray-for-sopa http://bigthink.com/ideas/hurray-for-sopa Media & Internet Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:56:57 -0500 What's the Big Idea? Big Think co-founder Peter Hopkins is fond of thinking against the grain, and when it comes to the current debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Hopkins's thinking is true to form.  According to Hopkins, while SOPA has been "vilified and grossly mischaracterized ...

Read More]]> Daniel Honan http://bigthink.com/ideas/freeman-dyson-climate-change-predictions-are-absurd http://bigthink.com/ideas/freeman-dyson-climate-change-predictions-are-absurd Environment Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:29:26 -0500 Watch the video here: In the video below, Dyson talks about how he has responded to critics. When the ...

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Read More]]> James Hansen http://bigthink.com/ideas/singularity-is-a-religion-just-for-digital-geeks http://bigthink.com/ideas/singularity-is-a-religion-just-for-digital-geeks Belief Future Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400 the coming Singularity is no different than any messianic religion, argues Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier. The only difference is this new religion is "just for digital geeks." Building off the argument he spelled out in an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Lanier argues that ...

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