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Scotty Hendricks
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Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
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Malcolm Gladwell does a post-mortem of the U.S. presidential election, speaking to issues of sexism and moral licensing, and makes a bold prediction.
It often feels like the repercussions of climate change may not apply directly to you. But here's something that will hit home – a somber prediction for your coffee supply, and all those workers who farm it.
Can you legislate for good human behavior, or does proposing laws to imprison those who use racial slurs distract from actual progress?
Want to improve your mood? This study recommends you get walking, even for a short time, and even if your surroundings aren't picturesque.
How do you win a Nobel Prize in Literature? First you must get nominated, then it gets hard.
Turns out no one is immune to being prejudiced. New research suggests that people of higher and lower cognitive ability are equally inclined, but direct their prejudice towards different social groups.
As mankind raises its eyes to Mars and asks, "How do we get there?", we might need to ask, "Should we go?". Carl Sagan said we may not be entitled to visit a potentially inhabited planet.