Carter said he was "surprisingly at ease" when he received his diagnosis. Perhaps part of that serenity comes from the knowledge of the good works he has done in his life.

This company promises to not only improve your showering experience, but also help you use 70 percent less water.

Words of wisdom from A. Philip Randolph: "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they do not know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated.” 

Open borders would lead to a massive wave of immigration and probably the collapse of American constitutional democracy... though one economist says that's not a bad thing.

And having network of social support is great medicine.

Bill Nye is an engineer by trade, so you know his answer to this one is going to be good. Learn how the rudder of a Boeing 747 can potentially inspire an inventor to develop a better brand of prosthetics.

But it doesn't have to be.

Words like "liberty" and "freedom" represent big ideas that are about as amorphous as they are valued.

Thanks, climate change.

Cepheids are the hottest, brightest variable stars of all. When they’re surrounded by gas, a spectacular light-echo can follow. “What is history? An echo of the past in the future; […]

The "extraordinary authority" of maps helped perpetuate an erroneous image of West Africa for almost an entire century.

The shooting of two charismatic animals stirred international outrage. But a more important event to the developing world concern with animal welfare was publication of Carl Safina's Beyond Words, What Animals Think and Feel.

The pictures of Stuart Palley tell a story that no words can. “the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that […]

Why do Vermeer’s paintings fascinate us so? Perhaps the reason lies behind a revolution in seeing in both art and science rooted in Vermeer’s 17th century Holland.

While we usually associate yoga with flexibility-inspired exercise, evidence shows a lack of psychedelic mushroom tea could lie at the foundation of this discipline. 

Stereotypes have consequences, especially when they're reinforced by loudmouths like Donald Trump.

Will nanobots someday deposit Shakespeare directly into our brains? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, we're joined Buddhist-influenced psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein

Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki chats about testing out her current hypothesis.

Dr. Michael Lindsey of NYU's Silver School of Social Work shares his views on the state of mental health within the African-American community.

A new study says critical thinking is a teachable skill, but who is going to teach it?