A LIVE feed from Cairo's Tahrir Square. 

If you were to orbit a black hole the sights you would see would be strange, to say the least.

Long John Silver's "Big Catch" meal contains 33 grams of trans fat.

A flag made of hemp is flying over the U.S. Capitol at the request of the Colorado hemp advocate Michael Bowman.

Muhammad Ali specualtes about traveling to Mars to fight a champion boxing match in 1966.

Advances in cell engineering are clearing the way for what one scientist believes may be the first successful human head transplant.

Expanding access to education and research tools, Ramez Naam says, "is accelerating this process of the Darwinian evolution of ideas."

What do Eckhart Tolle, Amy Chua, Cesar Millan and Barack Obama all have in common? They are all idea entrepreneurs. 

"If you answer yes to 10 or more of these you are a human." If not, "more tests are needed."

A proposal by Rep. Eric Swalwell, a freshman House Democrat, would allow Congress to vote remotely, the advantage being that they could attend to affairs in their home district instead of having to physically be in Washington D.C.

Ron Miller's illustrations deal with the consequences of man's actions as well as the kind of destruction that might be in store for our planet long after humans, and all life on Earth, is gone. 

The image above shows the "burn scar" left from the Dolce fire that has devastated the area around Prescott, Arizona. 

Jason Silva will be discussing technology, philosophy, creativity, the human condition, and what it means to be alive.

Has the Supreme Court's recent rulings paved the way for a new normal of gay acceptance?

England may allow a new technique that would take DNA from three people in order to avoid passing on genetic diseases.

Sir Ken Robinson wants to help remedy a dangerous and growing trend in developed countries toward career dissatisfaction and disconnectedness. 

In this darkly hilarious outtake from his interview for Big Think Mentor, Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium – warns that the universe is homicidal […]

What does the design of a new Google campus say about the company's future vision?

The image above depicts the body of an albatross that was found on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 

"Power causes you to focus on rewards and take risks to achieve those gains," Dr. Andy Yap of MIT's Sloan School of Management.