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Rhetorical Fallacies - Dodging Argument Traps | Decision Academy Part 2 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
ClearerThinking.org helps individuals hone their decision making skills and avoid common thinking traps. Our suite of free, online courses, which are now available in association with Big Think Mentor...
Why Cities No Longer Want to Host the Olympics 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
What's the Latest Development? Cities which petition the International Olympic Committee for the right to host the Games may have a double task from now on: Convincing their own population that the Ga...
John Lewis and Civil Rights March on in a New Graphic Novel 27 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
This past weekend people gathered in the nation’s capitol to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that was part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Fr...
How Do You Respond to a 'Moral Obscenity'? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
Whether Americans agree with Secretary John Kerry or not that attacks on civilians by the Syrian government are a "moral obscenity," only 9 percent support military intervention. What do you think? (A...
What is Scientific Mediation? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Scientific mediation works like this. You bring together one scientist from each point of view. Scientist A wants to do one thing, Scientist B wants the opposite. Then with the help of a mediator, ...
Why We Still Need Book Publishers 27 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
When I speak to friends in the music industry they often lament the fact that it isn’t like the old days where the record label got behind you. In this new world - and I think that book business is n....
Russia Aims to Dominate New Arctic Shipping Routes 27 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
What's the Latest Development? As the Arctic ice continues to melt due to rising global temperatures, Russia is aggressively pursuing new trading routes as well as new stores of natural resources, inc...
CIA Files Disclose U.S. Complicity in Iraqi Chemical Weapons Attacks 26 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
In an article based on exclusive disclosures of top secret documents and information by U.S. government officials and agencies, publication Foreign Policy has released new information on U.S. involvem...
The Thin Line Between Abnormality and Normality 26 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
Abnormality is the significant deviation from commonly accepted patterns of behavior, emotion or thought, while normality is the absence of illness and the presence of state of well being otherwise ca...
What Happened to India as a Global Economic Player? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
What's the Latest Development? As a member of the BRIC countries, India was suppose to be a new major player in the global economy. Alongside Brazil, Russia, and China, expectations for India included...
