Here is a video showing a dark polluted Tehran at noon as an airplane lands in Mehrabad's airport.

In any contest of ideas, the extreme will usually triumph over the moderate.

Bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is in no mood to open a third front against the Islamic world.

Across the English Channel, British Euroskeptics rejoice that they have kept their distance from a sinking ship.

Before the green revolution, Nobel Prize winning economist Gunnar Myrdal predicted a bleak future for an Asia mired in poverty.

And this one is I wish to launch a groundbreaking competition that motivates kids to invest ideas on, and invent ideas on, sustainability.

In the following interview Bashir tells his story.

The Global Ideas Bank is the opposite of Halfbakery in that ideas are proposed seriously, and in some cases actually implemented.

The government will not even discuss the Charter s ideas, let alone do anything to implement them.

A book, The Big Idea Book, comprising 500 of the best ideas was published by Wiley in 2003.

Following the placement of each of the ideas into one of the categories above, the participants Workshop agreed to forward to the Open ended Working Group the following list of ideas and activities that could form the basis of a conceptual framework of cooperation to address illegal trade in ozone depleting substances. In so doing, some delegates noted that many of the same ideas could be used to address illegal trade in products or equipment containing ozone depleting substances

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

A Time to Dare

Ideas over Interests

Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Archeologists still find elaborate (and probably expensive in those days) two pan balance scales and weights on sunken bronze age merchant ships.

Words express thoughts.

Some informal ideas were presented.

The best way to ensure that the Fund remains open to new ideas is by selecting the person with the best ideas to lead it.

Ideas matter in politics and having only a few simplistic ones of his own, Bush found his agenda shaped and dominated by his clever surrogate and deputy.

Momentum is growing.

If ideas are like weapons in lobbying, it is important to appreciate the possible distortions in the market for their creation and diffusion.

It's a millefiori of ideas.

But ideas matter.

He has a lot of original ideas.

American Conservatism s Crisis of Ideas

Structural adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and the World Bank ended up transforming these countries into dumping grounds for over subsidized Western agricultural surpluses and over priced and obsolete manufactured goods.

It demands the power of ideas that can galvanize others.

These ideas are still very up to date.

DR And it also felt a little bit like a kind of competition of ideas, where I think the focus of ideas should be on master planning and uses.

It's the interchange of ideas, the meeting and mating of ideas between them, that is causing technological progress, incrementally, bit by bit.

The problem for post WWII Europe, mired in depression and inflation, was that it lacked foreign reserves, which meant that trade carried a high opportunity cost. To facilitate trade without requiring payment after each transaction, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created the European Payments Union in 1950.

Matt Ridley When ideas have sex

We use game dynamics to build on it. We build with mindshare.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

It is high time that these ideas are implemented.

The real struggle is about ideas.

New ideas are like new drugs.

It gave me some insights.

Let me share a few thoughts with you.

The diversity and evolution of thought are human gifts.

Such perceptions are often mediated by ideas and previous experiences.

Ideas about the nature of law in general were beginning to change.

On re regulating finance, there are plenty of good ideas, but little convergence.