About Dangerous Ideas

Brace yourself: these ideas may at first seem shocking or counter-intuitive—but they are worth our attention, even if we end up rejecting them.  Every idea in this blog is supported by contributions from leading experts, from the world's top theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, to Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, to linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky.

Recent Posts

• 8/23

  #20: Doctors Are Bad for Your Health

• 8/23

  #32: Implant Memory Chips in Our Brains

• 4/26

  A Robot Bill of Rights?

• 10/13

  #33: Make the U.S. Presidency a Single, 6-Year Term

• 9/22

  Big Think Readers' Most Dangerous Ideas

• 9/15

  #31: Allow Pro Athletes to Use Steroids

• 9/01

  Tell Us What "Dangerous Ideas" You Like

• 8/31

  #30: Tax Fat People

• 8/30

  #29: Let Elephants and Lions Roam the Great Plains

• 8/29

  #28: Create New Life Forms