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The average American changes their career about four times. 

Do changes in a gravitational field propagate instantaneously, at the speed of light, or at a different speed altogether? “The only problem with the speed of light, is it gets […]

Guest post by Kevin Flora It’s not every day that a student comes to you asking for advice, wanting to bounce an idea around, or just has a random question.  […]

Two scientists with different perspectives don’t have to agree on the merits, but they have to agree on why they disagree.

Contrary to popular belief, competing with other individuals or companies is counterproductive. From a business perspective, focusing on your competition instead of focusing on continuous innovation by creating new, must […]

If you think that trawling the internet for cartography is a harmless endeavour, you are sorely mistaken. Think again. If you still can, that is. The relentless perusal of maps […]

Winston Churchill’s career reveals that he was pretty consistently wrong on issue after issue, place after place, time after time, and he was wrong for the same reasons he was right in May of 1940.

Thinking that leadership as binary is a very big mistake.  

I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor. 

The Microbial Academy of Sciences is an academy where microbes would be in a position to study the cosmos. 

If there is no drama in a meeting it has no purpose for being.

A few months ago I posted a piece on the alarming resurgence in the use of lie detectors in the UK and the US. A new documentary looks at the use […]

Cameras are part of war-waging and they’re also part of the way in which a general population assesses what is happening. 

How can a uniquely Shakespearean habit of mind can be applied to our own lives in order to help us think more creatively?

Whether we concede it or not, humanity longs for its cosmic significant other. 

Within some non-Western cultures, voice hearing is valued and it would not be seen as indicative of any illness at all. 

There is a moral case for intervening in Syria.

Lee Smolin posits the idea that new universes are born from parent universes through the mechanism of black holes. 

90% of the news in the newspaper and on television is negative because that’s what we pay attention to.

Big Data is a phenomenon that’s impacting just about every business these days.

One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.

“You can’t live or die every day thinking about redemption,” a self-reflective Eliot Spitzer told Big Think in 2010.

George is one of these people who is constantly giving away jokes, sharing ideas, letting other people take credit for the work that was done collectively.

We often think that if people get happy, they’ll stop working hard or that happy people are unintelligent.  And what we’re finding is just the opposite. 

Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.

There’s every reason to think that in almost all theaters of human endeavor, education, business and the like, this kind of activity is a positive, not a negative.  

Plants are able to perform photosynthesis and therefore, plants are in a position to enjoy cinematography, to enjoy films since the essence of film is light. 

Positive punishment is the classic Skinnerian notion in which a stimulus is applied with the aim of reducing an unwanted behavior. 

If we scaled the entire Universe’s history from the Big Bang until now to be “one Universe year,” what would our future look like? “The way to love anything is to […]

The widely-read science news site, Popular Science, recently decided to remove comment sections almost completely – save for a minority of articles. Online content director, Susan Labarre, explains: “Comments can […]