The nation’s largest gathering of transportation thinkers, the National Academies' Transportation Research Board, was just held in Washington, DC.  A nascent topic, that was discussed more in the hallways, than […]

The Consumer Electronics Show is over, but the enduring story of how wearables will be a part of everyday life persists. Just a month ago was the Indiegogo campaign to […]

"Unplugging digitally" was a top 3 New Year's resolution this year as thousands seek to distance themselves from their devices. A new study suggests gadgetry isn't as stress-inducing as we think. 

Concerned that extreme advances in artificial intelligence could endanger humanity, Elon Musk has donated ten million dollars this week to safeguard humans from an "intelligence explosion."

Author and TV host Leon Logothetis shares an inspiring story from his world travels about a homeless man who welcomed him with an open heart.

"Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies."

Author and entrepreneur Andrew Keen points to Uber as an example of an unregulated internet innovation wreaking havoc on customers, communities, and even its own employees.

According to a story doing the rounds on social media, organ transplant patients can take on the personalities of their donors. Don't believe the hype.

Real estate entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran took to LinkedIn this week to offer advice on how to reinvent yourself professionally. 

The legendary biologist talks about ultimate biology breakthroughs we can expect in the next several decades and how the creation of artificial life, coupled with the advancement of artificial intelligence, will change the human race.

Smartphone software that anticipates what you want to type to a friend, colleague, or spouse, may make you less intentioned in your communication.

How you empathize with a stranger all depends on how stressed you are in that moment. A recent study shows that stress hormones have the power to "veto" our empathic abilities.

A new site launched this week serves as a platform for writers to share their plays and readers to discover exciting new works.

Angry drivers hate aggressive bicyclists but biking with confidence may the best way to stay safe on city streets.

Professional athletes need to be fit mentally just as much as physically. That's the philosophy espoused by the new Los Angeles Dodgers front office.

"We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying."

Author and entrepreneur Andrew Keen recently visited Big Think to discuss his new book "The Internet is Not the Answer," which explores the negative effects of Silicon Valley innovations on society.

The Novice Art Blogger is a bot programmed with deep learning algorithms that attempts to make sense of pieces of art by explaining what it sees. 

The authors of a new study argue that the added sugar in flavored milk is a small price to pay when considering the importance of calcium and vitamin D for childhood development.

When the Philadelphia Museum of Art purchased Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting The Annunciation in 1899, they became the first American museum to acquire a work by an African-American artist. That purchase announced a new era of recognition of African-American art and artists just as much as the painting itself announced a new style of art moving away from stereotypical “black” scenes towards a freedom of aesthetic choice. Persons of color could express themselves in any way, even abstraction, but faced the new problem of remaining true to themselves at the same time. The new exhibition Represent: 200 Years of African American Art and accompanying catalogue show how these artists faced the challenges posed to them by art and society and provide all of us with a fascinating guide to facing African-American history—tragic, tenacious, transcendent—through its art.