The Latest from Big Think

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3mins
While industrial meat production is environmentally destructive and socially unjust, raising animals for meat on in grass pastures actually enhances the environment.
5mins
Even if they lacked the variety we enjoy in modern supermarkets, our forebears ate healthy food that was, by and large, whole and unadulterated.
6mins
Our ancestors had a much lower incidence of diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Could it be because they ate traditional, “real” foods?
6mins
The author describes how growing up on the farm taught her to love “real foods” and how much healthier she became when she stopped being a vegetarian.
46mins
A conversation with the founder of London Farmers’ Markets and author of “Real Food: What to Eat and Why.”
1mins
The more potential dating partners we are choosing from, the more likely we are to choose someone based on looks.
2mins
About the only time our gut impulse can outperform our reason is if we have developed some kind of truly informed intuition.
3mins
Different cultures have different attitudes about options–and about how many choices a person needs to have in order to decide.
2mins
Most of the time, when we’re confronted by an abundance of choices, it’s because we’re novices and don’t know how to differentiate between them.
1mins
Animals, like humans, want to exert control over their lives with choices. Humans show this desire from a young age.
9mins
Growing up in a Sikh-American family, the business professor became fascinated with decisions. As she gradually grew blind, she wondered how much her own choices would be diminished.
19mins
A conversation with the Columbia Business School professor.
The Catholic Church will be “a different color” in 40 years. And there will likely be female priests.
2mins
This priest advises to stop “shoulding” all over yourself.
2mins
It’s dangerous to be spiritual without being religious, and vice versa.
2mins
Why the television host’s recent comment betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel.
2mins
The Church’s sex scandal has nothing to do with celibacy and everything to do with a “culture of secrecy” that put the Church’s public image first.
2mins
Anti-Catholicism is not as bad as some other prejudices are in our culture, but it is present.
1mins
As one of the show’s regulars, the priest talks about what it’s like behind the scenes.
8mins
What it’s like to make the switch from the Wall Street Journal to the Bible.