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An expansive new study makes clear the extent of the problem and the importance of parents in avoiding teen drug use.
Playing many different characters, Tony and Obie award-winner Sarah Jones responds to surprise "big ideas" in Think Again podcast's first ever live show at NYC Podfest
It’s more than a conclusion that most scientists agree on; it’s the basis for all the science we do now! “Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned […]
Wherein moral conundrums could determine the fate of millions — and how a psychopath might respond to them.
In Queer Virtue, gay Episcopal priest Elizabeth M. Edman argues for a new take on this old religion.
Demagoguery, colonizing Mars, and the perpetual pendulum of party politics. Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on the Think Again podcast
Australian researchers have found that fiber can help lessen the reaction to food allergies, and even cure a person of them.
Big Think teams up with Hyper, a new premium video app that curates 10 videos each day, with no buffering or data depletion.
Henry Rollins talks about how fear of winding up starting in The America drove his to his remarkable career.
The massive black holes that formed LIGO’s first event were a surprise, and then a mystery. Here’s the long-awaited solution! “Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a […]
Michio Kaku tells the story of one super-scary mistake in physics and reminds us how hard it is to get science right.
Neil deGrasse Tyson proposed an ideal form of government and caused a viral debate.
The U.K. has voted to leave the European Union, but here are the scenarios in which it stays in.
A new method has been shown effective in halting, even reversing Alzheimer’s in 10 early-stage patients.
The gun industry is in the business of selling its products. Exploiting our belief system is part of its corporate model.
And the wisdom from an exclusive interview with Larry Niven. Ever since humanity had the thought that the distant, twinkling stars might be Suns like our own, with their own planetary […]
Now that LIGO’s found two pairs of merging black holes, what does the future hold? “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to […]
Many of our best U.S presidents qualify as psychopaths, while Hitler doesn’t.
The New York Times claimed that aliens must have existed at some point. But science is less certain. “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve […]
Plato wasn't worried that democracy tended to lead to Donald Trump-style tyranny (despite what Andrew Sullivan claims). Here's what he was really concerned about.