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How do we feed the world while saving the planet? Underinvestment and market failures have trapped many countries in a vicious cycle of low productivity and exposure to price hikes.
The Dragon, a new privately funded spacecraft, should revolutionize American space exploration. And make clear the ability to commercialize innovation.
The mistake is thinking that "intellectual property laws" are the same as creative output. It's a nefarious fallacy. It leads to the false claim: "more IP = more creative economy.
Taking a test is not just a passive way to assess how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and works better than various other techniques.
Leading neuroscientist Vilayanur S Ramachandran shares intriguing case studies revealing the powerful, adaptive potential of the human brain.
A study has found that blindfolded dolphins can pick up on the actions of other dolphins, even imitating their actions.
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them in the way that a profession opened up new worlds to me.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The process of looking back at that time must also include looking back at previous attempts […]
A recently published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found a correlation between friendship and possession of a particular version of a single gene.
Last year, Chauncey DeVega asked a great question: how would we see Sarah Palin if she were black? As much as we might like to pretend otherwise, blacks in America are […]
I've got a new USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for a wintry January Thursday. Some highlights (with post report updates) include: Russia: The Kamchatkan volcano, Kizimen, has […]
BIG THINK has done has the big service of presenting many, many excellent and expert views on what happiness is and how to be happy. Surely, we increasingly think, this […]
It’s pretty obvious the time the GOP spent this week debating a healthcare repeal bill that has absolutely no chance of becoming law instead of deliberating over more practical matters […]
The decline in birth rates in 2009 isn’t a story about young women learning about life with a baby from a reality show. It is a story about young women who know all too well what life with a baby is like.
There is more than a literal truth to the saying that "you never get a second chance to make a first impression," suggests emerging international research.
In some cases, such as the Giffords shooting and Tunisian revolution, Twitter has proven a real-time news network. But what happens when the medium spreads disinformation?
Researchers have found that people whose last names come later in the alphabet are more impulsive shoppers than those earlier in the alphabet.
Whether there is a God or not, the universe per se cannot have a purpose in any anthropomorphic sense for which that term is usually employed, says Michael Shermer.
You can be sure that the next set you buy will almost certainly have an option to connect to the internet. The challenge manufacturers face is persuading you that it’s worth the effort.
As environmentally friendly labels have proliferated, the meaning of those claims has become increasingly vague. Now some large companies are trying to better define such terms.