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Philosophy
Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It's often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.
Philosophy isn't stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
When all your teammates fall for "the emperor's new clothes," the results can be disastrous — here's how to bust the groupthink.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
At work we're often asked to be decisive — but how can we make an informed choice without complete information?
When cosmic inflation came to an end, the hot Big Bang ensued as a result. If our cosmic vacuum state decays, could it all happen again?
Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.