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Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, resulting from the communication of information across all its regions and cannot be reduced to something residing in specific areas.

The Journal of Brief Ideas wants to encourage researchers to publish their work in 200 words or fewer as a way to network with other scientists and find ideas.

When the Whitney Museum of American Art decided to stage in 1948 their first exhibition of a living American artist, they chose someone who wasn’t even an American citizen, but only legally could become one just before his death. Painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi came to America as a teenager and immersed himself in American culture and art while rising to the top of his profession, all while facing discrimination based on his Japanese heritage.  The exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, which runs through August 30, 2015 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, unveils an amazing story of an artist who lived between two worlds — East and West — while bridging them in his art that not only synthesized different traditions, but also mirrored the joys and cruelties of them.

With its Deep Speech system, Chinese search giant Baidu claims to have created one of the most advanced and successful speech recognition programs in the world.

Although he’s not a fan of the term, Dan Harris cites the practice of purposeful pauses as a superpower of sorts that can help restore one’s inner calm.

Sam Harris is embarrassed by the word “spirituality” because of its past misuse as a religious term. Despite its spooky etymology though, he argues that there’s no better word in the English language to describe one’s personal and intimate exploration of human consciousness.

Bill Nye: We May Discover Life on Europa Bill Nye (The Science Guy!) describes the possibility of discovering life on Europa, arguing that we might make such a discovery in […]

The ABC correspondent explains that you can integrate short bursts of meditation into your life by way of purposeful pauses.

ABC News Correspondent Dan Harris explains why someone who tells you they’re a good multitasker is lying. In fact, what we perceive as multitasking is really just “doing many things poorly”

Sleepless nights filled with anxiety about the day’s events buzzing through our minds could be helped through a little mindful meditation every day.

And does it have its own type of charge, like all the other forces? “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner […]

To unwind they check out social media.

The ABC News Correspondent discusses the myth of multitasking. “We literally neurologically cannot do more than one thing at a time,” says Harris.

The author and neuroscientist argues that, despite its spooky etymology, there’s no better word than “spirituality” to describe the personal and intimate exploration of human consciousness.

In case you missed it from earlier this week, author Sam Harris visited Big Think to discuss his use of the word “spirituality” and the importance of reappropriating powerful terms.

While Sam Harris doesn’t necessarily condone their use, his experimentations with psychedelic drugs were indelible in the formation of his worldview and understanding of consciousness. 

Burnout recovery is a four-phase process that starts with identifying that some goals are simply not attainable.

We begin our careers full of optimism. We expect to encounter people who are eager to hear what we have to say — as our teachers were in school or […]

Taking a nap almost always beats a cup of coffee, according to sleep researchers, because a nap restores worn out synapse connections while coffee just pushes them to perform longer.

With the May 1st grand opening to the public of its new building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the Whitney Museum launches a new era not only in the New York City art scene, but also, possibly, in the very world of museums. Thanks to a Renzo Piano-designed new building built, as Whitney Director Adam D. Weinberg put it, “from the inside out” to serve the interests of the art and the patrons first, the new Whitney and its classic collection of American art stretching back to 1900 has drawn excited raves and exasperated rants from critics. Their inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See, gathers together long-loved classic works with rarely seen newcomers to create a paradox of old and new to mirror the many paradoxes of the American history the art embodies and critiques by turns. This shock of the new (and old) is the must-see art event of the year.

Slow Down Your Brain to Get More Done, with Steven Kotler The best-selling author discusses hypofrontality — literally the slowing of the brain’s prefrontal cortex — and how it allows […]

If you’re not getting enough sleep at night you’re not going to be as productive or happy in your life. Try to make the decision to remedy that this new year.

Sam Harris discusses the virtues of psychedelics such as LSD and MDMA. While he does not condone the use of these drugs without caveat, he does acknowledge their profound consciousness-altering properties.

Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio hosts a biweekly meeting of “The Quiet Time Caucus,” in which House members and their staff are invited to participate in mindful meditation.

Sleep as we know it has changed over the past few centuries thanks to the invention of the light bulb. The 8-hour sleep cycle may conflict with your body’s natural rhythms. 

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind.

Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one’s ego. Ray Kurzweil: […]

Driving while tired creates the most likely conditions for a road accident, especially when drivers are on the road between 2am and 5am or received fewer than five hours sleep the night before driving.

Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris discusses a form of spirituality founded on science and reason.

Consciousness is what it’s like and how it feels to be you. Thus, consciousness exists in a realm of irreducible subjectivity with which science isn’t always comfortable.