There’s a limit to what the human body can do and how much it can achieve.  

There are certain traits that we don’t pay much attention to, but which actually do explain success.  So, for example, one of them you would call mind sight, which is […]

 

I'm very optimistic that we can make breakthroughs precisely by trying to take steps in the direction of a more integrated, contextualized neuroscience of consciousness.

There is nothing qualitatively different about the way the Internet is changing our human experience now than the way the invention of writing did some thousands of years ago.

One of the problems in the contemporary neuro-scientific study of consciousness is really a basic fundamental one, which is that we’ve been looking for consciousness in the wrong place.  We’ve […]

Here is a statement that shouldn’t result in anyone being called racist: I think religion is a particularly harmful way of viewing the world, because it encourages irrational thought, groupthink, […]

Now is definitely the time to take risks.  I have two daughters, both of whom are now grown and married, with kids.  One has two kids, the other almost has […]

The energy monopoly Gazprom is pushing for greater adoption of vehicles that run on natural gas. It helps that Russia is the world's second-largest producer of the stuff.

I think it’s not always right that people should follow their passion.  There is a questionnaire that people fill out just before they enter college that has been going on […]

Big Think chief Economist Daniel Altman has a suggestion to end this long national nightmare: get rid of the corporate income tax.  

The tax on corporate profits is a terrible tax. Economists to this day don't know who pays it. And that means that we really don't know who's bearing the burden.

The government is going after 100 companies accused of exploiting young workers who are eager for experience. It's one of several efforts to expose abuses in what some say has become "a defining characteristic" of the Millennial generation.

A man spends ten years trying to sail home to his faithful wife... A naked foot slides, with mysterious ease, into the prince’s slipper… A girl stands on a balcony, […]

Earlier this month, President Obama announced his intention to create an ambitious research project, supported by billions of federal dollars, to unlock the secrets of how the brain works.

You have to believe that you are going to do well on an exam. I've seen students from all different backgrounds, people who started at all different levels, who have […]

To test how strongly we identify our political convictions with a specific political party, Swedish researchers took to the streets just before a national election to survey voters about their political leanings.

La cocina es una de las primeras actividades que nació en la historia, no? Lo primero que hicieron los humanos fue comer. Durante la historia ha ido dialogando con otras […]

It certainly is the case that Shakespeare has been the darling of an extraordinarily weird array of people.

Shakespeare was malleable in every way aesthetically and ethically.