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.

A recent poll shows a third of Americans think another civil war is likely. How worried should we be?
What do we do when we know an infant will not have a life worth living? Philosophy is here to help.
The cycle of poverty can be hard to break, will early childhood interventions based on new neuroscience be the silver bullet we need?
Have you ever eaten a chocolate bar that was worth its weight in gold? If you lived in ancient Mesoamerica, you might have done it every day.
Half of all the antibiotics produced in the United States are given to animals to help them grow faster, should we stop this for the sake of our health?
Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.
Is God an old white guy with a majestic, flowing beard? A new study has a surprise for you.