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Mind and Behavior
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.
How to say, "In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce" and get away with it.
Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there's a happy medium to be found.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets — very few of which resemble Earth.
The aging brain is networked differently.
Team storming — as defined by psychologist Bruce Tuckman — can be fractious. Done right, the benefits are immense.
In a guest essay for Big Think Business, Pedro Franceschi — co-founder and co-CEO of Brex — explains why deftly navigating between vision and details is crucial for successful leaders.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Even before birth, our brains are taking note of the languages we hear.
Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It's not pretty for the "second" star.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.