Search
Latest Articles
The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.
The mantra of the whole investment industry is simply not true.
Most people listen to win the interaction, not to hear the content.
While you might be less dumb than your ancestors, you are nonetheless guilty of backwards thinking all the time.
One closely-debated theory has been that heavy metals were a byproduct of collisions between dense dead stars. Now, an event observed through NASA's Swift satellite may have provided a literal "smoking gun."
Is a life lived without asking why a more impoverished life? There’s the question.
Alanis Morissette's 1996 hit song "Ironic" has finally been corrected to actually make it ironic after all of these years.
Whatever your position on ADHD, the psychological research is clear on one thing: focus and self-control are essential life skills that translate into just about any definition of success you can come up with.
What we have now is a picture of human development built on the idea that humans are learning creatures, and that what we are depends on what we learn, from cradle to grave.
Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others that were stolen from a museum last year may have been burned.
We are blessed to have a limitless supply of one energy source that can keep our devices going: urine.
Many neuropsychiatric ailments that are assumed to have a major genetic component don't seem to have one.
By using a new method of crystallization, inventor Michael Graetzel says that the cells' power conversion efficiency has shot up to 15 percent, putting them on a par with traditional silicon photovoltaics.
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, three fears account for "the most expensive, ambitious projects humans have ever undertaken."
"This is a game changer!" says Jim Stinner, the vice president of marketing for Rust-Oleum, the company which manufactures and distributes NeverWet - a spray-on coating that repels water, mud, […]
Bacteria stored in a fuel cell broke down chemicals in urine, generating enough electricity in the process to enable text messaging, Internet browsing, and "a brief phone call."
Here is what would make a quantum computer so powerful.
Martin Heidegger called Socrates “the purest thinker” in the West, which, I gather, doesn’t necessarily mean the best thinker. The sign of Socrates’ purity is not writing down his thoughts, […]
This is how the Left gets tough – rather than confront actual problems or genuine malefactors, they hyperventilate about invented ones, at the expense of innocent people.
We have to grow about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the population.