According to a new study, fathers who co-sleep with their kids experience lower levels of testosterone. The findings imply that the ability to nurture children has a deeper biological basis than previously suspected.

Today’s Power Woman is manifested in popular culture as a positive, gutsy role model, breaking new ground and inspiring conversation and debate about women’s role in society.

A study done by Vonage shows that its users aren't leaving or retrieving voicemails as often as they used to, leading some to wonder what this means for the future of voice message technology.

What if advertising could be used for things that we really do need? Alain de Botton imagines what a world would look like if the tools of advertising could be used to nudge us to be the best of ourselves.

Was Shakespeare gay? Stephen Greenblatt says that Shakespeare inhabited a world in which "it is much more possible to express homosexual passion and enact that passion without triggering a social crisis."

Comedian Margaret Cho shares the story of the best mentor she ever had.

Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells Big Think that Shakespeare inhabited a world in which "it's much more possible to express homosexual passion and inact that passion without triggering a social […]

There’s an indelible story in Jim Collins’ Good to Great about Admiral Jim Stockdale, a war hero who survived torture as a POW in Vietnam. From Collins’ book: “I never […]

In Part I, I introduced the idea that we should employ the principle of charity when engaging with ideas (particularly online) – especially from new and unknown interlocutors. Many problems […]

What's the Big Idea? As the K-12 school year starts up again in full force, it's worth asking: are American public schools really failing? According to the measure set by […]

Educational historian Diane Ravitch explains why NCLB has failed, and what we can do about it.

The legendary punk rocker offers some advice to today's youth.

The Democrats have a lot to cheer about after a terrific convention in Charlotte. God, however, is shaking her head. On Wednesday, Mitt Romney lambasted the Democrats for removing a […]

Thanks to a huge Kickstarter response, the Oculus Rift is ready to bring virtual reality technology back into gaming, motion sickness and all.

A recently-released line of state-of-the-art mainframes proves that, all these years later, IBM is still going strong in the Internet age.

Okay, not quite, but close: A new smart fabric, developed in Germany, can trigger an alarm when penetrated, and is flexible enough to be incorporated into building walls and floor coverings, among other materials.

I've written in the past about the Secret, more properly called the Law of Attraction, the perenially popular New Age idea which says that merely thinking about something draws it […]

What if you could bottle President Obama's famous cool, Lady Gaga's style and Michael Phelps's athleticism? An experimental philosopher is attempting to do just that. Sort of. 

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita argues that gerrymandering gives incumbents a wildly unfair advantage.