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Professional women are at a disadvantage due to what's called "the confidence gap," an idea popularized by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay. Shine is a new company that seeks to close that gap one text message at a time.
Democracy is happening like never before, and it's exploiting our deepest fears and failures.
“If the election for U.S. president were held today, who would you vote for?” Response options included all of the Republican and Democratic candidates in the race at the time, along with options for “Other” and “I would not vote.”
Wading into the gun control debate, Facebook has announced it will restrict person-to-person sales of firearms on its platform.
On the map, the changing fortunes of French baby boys' names look like battles in a weird, unreported war.
The similarities between the Universe and a living being are striking and surprising. Could larger entities than us be alive? “Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to […]
Big Think's Jason Gots reviews David McCullough's 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams.
How "the stats" are being used often causes a fog of low-quality quantification. Multiple regression is widely misunderstood by researchers and journalists.
As the world works toward a zero-emission economy, Japan has had to get creative about building up its solar infrastructure.
New research shows that the most effective leaders, from Abraham Lincoln to Jeff Bezos, are always questioning their own convictions.
An unfamiliar new threat that harms babies, that we can't protect ourselves from, that experts don't fully understand, and about which the media is blaring loud alarms; Zika virus has several powerful emotional characteristics that make any potential danger feel much more dangerous than it might actually be.
Chinese activist Ai Weiwei is the most political artist on Earth. Did he just sell his soul to a department store?
And how close does the farthest one we’ve ever found so far come to it? “Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics […]
Planet Nine? More like “Planet maybe.” “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.” -Mike Brown Last week, the […]
Out of those hundreds of friends on Facebook, you'd only count four of them as "true friends."
All cities have clogged traffic arteries, post-industrial pockets of hipness, and districts that hate each other's guts for no other reason than that they're across the river from each other, or on opposite sides of the tracks.
Could Michael Bloomberg actually win? Or should he spend his billions on fixing our broken electoral system instead?
Google.org is trying to help refugees regain the lives they lost.
Photographer Eric Pickersgill has imagined a strange new world. One not unlike our own.
Tinder now offers free testing for sexually transmitted infections to users.