bigthink.com

so ironically i ended up going on a bateau mouche instead of going to the Courbet exhibit, but this post is not about that.
i recently discovered (via a stephen colbert clip, but don't judge yet) bigthink.com, a curious new site trying to foster dialogue and present new points of view on interesting issues. every day it features youtube-like clips by "experts" on an issue, providing radically different positions. it is still very new (about a week old, i think), so i am not sure exactly where it will go, but is worth checking out. there are some pretty radical viewpoints (such as the American Enterprise Institute woman who claims that Iran will fire nukes at Israel first thing after it gets them (so much for deterrence theory)) so it helps to have at least a little knowledge of the subject being addressed beforehand.