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Wendy Luhabe explains how her mother, who refused to be a victim of circumstance, is the person who gave her a passion for mentorship.
The Australian Paul Mathis has apparently spent nearly $40,000 developing a new symbol and advocating its inclusion as the 27th letter of the alphabet.
Ron Miller has painted the planets as if they were the same distance from Earth as the Moon, in order to demonstrate their size.
In honor of Bastille Day, we are looking at five French ideas and how they have influenced the world.
Perhaps the most powerful contribution of cognitive psychology to human understanding has been its careful mapping out of the many ways in which we self-deceive. Our minds are expert confabulators, […]
"You can’t live or die every day thinking about redemption," a self-reflective Eliot Spitzer told Big Think in 2010.
For many career seekers, “follow your passion” can be a terrifying piece of advice, mainly because the word passion conjures up images of intense, frenzied activity better suited to an […]
Talent isn’t everything. In fact, some of the most robust findings to come out of developmental psychology over the past decades have identified self-control – the ability to harness, train, […]
Theo Caldwell recently appeared on FOX, telling Tucker Carlson that he could no longer make fun of Canada as "our socialist little buddy to the north."
This image was taken with a 50 mm lens by members of Expedition 36 aboard the International Space Station, the latest in a series of stunning images released to the public.
Over 2,600 employees from the San Francisco headquarters of Genentech celebrated the anniversary of the discovery of DNA by forming a human DNA strand reportedly the world's largest ever.
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."