This childhood photo of Kurt Cobain could be an album cover. It has the same spontaneity and sweetness of the naked swimming baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind. Source: History Pics

"...If you look at a lot of the innovations and breakthroughs today and you trace them back, as I did in my research, to their origin, a lot of times what you find at the root of it all is a great question; a beautiful question of someone asking why isn't someone doing this or what if someone tried to do that?  So I found that questions are often at the root of innovation." - Warren Berger

As we’ve reported here previously at Big Think, asking the right questions can be powerful. As leadership expert Daniel Pink explained in our video interview, managers and executives must know […]

When it comes to country size, Russia wins. But when it comes to people-per-square mile, Bangladesh has Russia beat. From History Pics: Bangladesh has 155 million people and Russia has […]

History Pics shared this image with the description “30 years of cell phones.” Recognize most of these? How many have you used? Image via History Pics

“Lovers in Mantua” are two 6,000 year old skeletons–a young man and a woman from the Neolithic era–who must have cared for each other very deeply. In 2007, their skeletons […]

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell