Movie trailers are a perfect example of content that goes viral. 

Young people are sick and tired of what they've been experiencing and they don't understand why it's continuing.

You try and stare a baby out on the metro and you’re on a loser pal. 

Would you kill a baby and save millions of lives further on down the line in history? 

One of the benefits of being a psychopath is you are not depressed and you are not anxious.

The more people are attending to threat-related stimuli, the more anxious they get. 

In traditional Sufism, a seeker would find a teacher and study under him for a number of years in a particular order, or turuq. During that time the seeker would […]

The Pocket Spacecraft project aims to open lunar exploration to the public by offering thin-film, sensor-packed "scouts" for sale that will eventually travel to the moon and send back data to their owners.

Bonobos have sex with everybody basically all the time. Well, not everybody. 

I feel this tendency to come up with an evolutionary explanation for basically everything under the sun is not needed.

The ultimatum game is the ultimate test of fairness, and chimpanzees passed the test by going for the fair options.  

Introducing Thomas Cathcart's new Big Think blog series, Why Philosophize?

There is a new cultural player on the scene called the idea entrepreneur who have the ability to influence how people think and affect how people behave.

A life well-lived is likely to serve others while satisfying our inner passions. When people get lost in their lives and careers, Sir Ken Robinson would argue, they’re usually serving one at the expense of the other.

I neglected the obvious answer to the question of why there exists a useless, contrived, poorly phrased cliche which does not meet good principles of reasoning and serves only to cloud issues.

Billed by some as "Facebook for cops," BlueLine will allow officers to share and collaborate in a much more secure environment.

Advances in cell engineering are clearing the way for what one scientist believes may be the first successful human head transplant.

Expanding access to education and research tools, Ramez Naam says, "is accelerating this process of the Darwinian evolution of ideas."

Ideas pop up and are subjected to a Darwinian fitness test.

One of my favorite BIG THINKERS, Dave Berreby, criticizes our Declaration of Independence.  Here’s the Declaration’s theory:  We have the right to life, and we have the right to the […]