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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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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.
Will this EU power be the first to prove that a modern, industrialized nation can make major shifts towards cleaner, greener energy without catastrophe?
Creepy clowns are everywhere, but why do we find clowns so creepy in the first place? New research into creepiness confirms what we all thought: clowns are objectively creepy.
Two powerful organizations have dedicated themselves to getting to Mars. One is SpaceX, the other is the US government. Will they both get there?
Neuroscience suggests that we have limited free will, but there is a model of freedom that even neuroscientists support; "free won't".