Support for legalizing marijuana is now 58 percent. There are few other issues, save gay marriage, where public opinion has changed so dramatically.

Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson argue that remote working is not some cooky brainchild of software developers. "The future, quite literally, belongs to those who get it."

Over 270 robotics researchers have signed on to a proposed ban on weapons systems that can fire "without a human in the loop."

HealthCare.gov contains an estimated 500 million lines of code. To put that in context, that is five times the amount of code as contained in a large bank's computer system. 

Divorce may be contagious, but so are lasting relationships. Attending to the health of one’s friends’ marriages may serve to support and enhance the durability of one’s own relationship.

If life expansion becomes achievable, the question still remains whether it will be accessible for everyone, as opposed to just the super rich.

Various participants within the growing field of “impact investing” are developing a range of innovative approaches to deploy private sector capital to solve pressing social challenges. 

Filmmaker Casey Neistat explains how the democratization of filmmaking led to his unlikely career as a filmmaker – a career that began one day while playing with a 2000 iMac DV in the trailer park where he was living. 

Contrary to some media reports, the chance of 2013 TV135 colliding with Earth is only 1 in 63,000 according to NASA.

Religion is said to either encourage thinking or at least “encourage” science in some nebulous ways. 

The image above is a composite of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft looking down on Saturn and its rings. 

If you’re not in Europe, Africa or the Middle East, don’t worry, you can still watch a live webcast of the penumbral lunar eclipse via the Slooh space camera starting […]

We as a culture have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even though we don't know what these words are and what they mean.

What is preventing us from formulating the optimum drug policy? 

Can more competition help government services improve?

For most of our history, humans have been extraordinarily ignorant about sex. Today, there is still much about sex that we either don't know or don't agree on. 

Steve Case points out that some things, like media, have changed a lot since the first Internet revolution. And yet, there are many, many more industries that have not changed all that much, and are ripe for disruption.

"It never hurts to dream impossible dreams," Booker told Big Think, as "you never know they might come true." So if he could have one superpower it would be "control over time," Booker said. "Because that's really my only enemy. 

This past summer the British government indicated it would be moving forward to finally grant a pardon for Alan Turing, but not for the 49,000 other gay men, including Oscar Wilde, who were convicted under the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act.