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Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
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Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?
Cow cuddling is getting ever more popular, but what's the science behind using animals for relaxation?
How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?
While not the first such minister, the loneliness epidemic in Japan will make this one the hardest working.
One million year old mammoth DNA more than doubles the previous record and suggests that even older genomes could be found.
A new model of plate tectonics offers a chance to look back a billion years with new found accuracy.
Life is absurd, that detail can be the start of a great many things.
Radar astronomy is nothing new, but a new transmitter may give us unprecedented image resolution.
How much of this can be linked to genetics?
People often make a killing in stocks, but there are other ways to potentially turn major profits.
The newly discovered galaxies are 62 times bigger than the Milky Way.
Knowing what to do is one thing, doing it is another.
A powerful new tool lights up the brains of worms, and may soon help draw maps of other animals brains.
A new survey shows who believes what and how it differs from what Americans believe as a whole.
A new antibiotic hits germs with a two pronged attack.
Two new studies shed light on who first inhabited the islands, who replaced them, and how few people lived there.
An excessive focus on past failures can make learning about new situtations more difficult.
While most of these deaths are driven by external factors, interventions can still help prevent them.
Other cultures can differ greatly from your own, but there are commonalties in the way we express emotions.
Planets can emit radio waves. For the first time, we've picked them up from outside the solar system.