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. 

In order to be successful, you need to do more than just design a good product. You need to be persuasive.

In the video below, Justin Solonynka, a teacher at the Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, PA, uses a game he bought for his two-year-old daughter to teach his 7th grade class about permutations and combinations.

"DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages," wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.  

The image above is an artist's impression of what it might look like to live on the exoplanet Gliese 667Cd, one of three super-Earths discovered in the habitable zone of the nearby star Gliese 667C. 

While the solution to sustainable population growth is elusive, there are few illustrations that present this global challenge in such clear terms as this video.

Why do religious people tend to be regarded as philanthropists while secular humanists are regarded as cruelly indifferent?

Today is a potentially big day at the U.S. Supreme Court, and that is not just because it is Justice Sotomayor's birthday. 

Computer-generated models published in the journal eLife demonstrated how plants might regulate the rate at which they consume starch that they will need once the sun goes down. 

By facilitating, instead of being defensive, Stephen Miles says you’ll end up in the higher place and you will be able to maintain your point of view.