Scotty Hendricks

Scotty Hendricks

Contributing Writer

scotty hendricks

Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.

Oxygen is thought to be a biomarker for extraterrestrial life, but there are at least three different ways that a lifeless planet can produce it.
A study on charity finds that reminding people how nice it feels to give yields better results than appealing to altruism.
The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.
Global inequality takes many forms, including who has lost the most children
When you say, "I'll get it done this week," you're just lying to yourself.
People often divide the world into "us" and "them" then forget about everybody else.
Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.