Just in time for New York’s fashion week, Dan Ariely, the Duke Behavioral Economics professor and author of Predictably Irrational, sent Big Think a video on how fake designer sunglasses […]

We asked some of our financial experts – Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, former Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller, and Time economics columnist Justin Fox – […]

Big Think recently talked to Howard Gardner, the esteemed Harvard psychologist and the pioneer of the theory of “multiple intelligences”, about success, intelligence, and education.  He saw several challenges facing […]

Tucked away on the north shore of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva is a town called Vevey. It’s home to Nestle’s headquarters, as well as its former CEO and now Chairman Peter […]

If you’ve ever been comforted by the fact that, though calculus is Greek to you, you’ve always been “good with words,” or that, though you can’t spell to save your […]

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the CEO and President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talked to Big Think this summer about the challenges facing our health care system. Today, when we […]

The promise of broadband Internet in Africa just took an ugly publicity hit—from a pigeon. The BBC reports that a carrier pigeon was able to deliver four gigabytes of data […]