The more people are attending to threat-related stimuli, the more anxious they get.
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College is a risky investment, but you may be able to get a lot more out of living as a college graduate than if you didn’t have a college degree.
“What we’re seeing here, this guy is the Leonardo da Vinci—the Albert Einstein—of tennis.”
How “super” was your view of the Supermoon?
Growing up, I fell in love with Science Fiction watching reruns of Star Trek, the version now known to fans as “The Original Series.” The storylines and (then state of […]
If just stay on the same pathway every single day that’s going to be a pretty predictable pathway of what you’re going down now.
There’s a new columnist out there writing for The American Conservative. You may or may not regard him as conservative. Patrick Deneen reflects on a semi-depressing book written by my favorite […]
You no doubt have seen it often enough, perhaps said it yourself: It’s a variation on “Only a bad person would do that!” Yet, we must also wonder about what […]
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.
And as someone who has a really terrible driving record I can’t wait for autonomous cars to come out.
I could also title this column, Middle School: The Everlasting Black Hole of Education. I’m not an education expert, only a parent, but the trouble with middle school is easily […]
One of the first words nixed by postgraduate education is “truth.” Amidst all the deconstructing and linguistic acrobatics, “truth” is just too troublesome and old fashioned. So, imagine my surprise […]
The microship is pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives more than we realize.
A report suggests that by 2030, nearly 325 million people could be living in the countries expected to be the most affected by natural hazards. In response, focus should be placed on disaster prevention, not just disaster relief.
Most people listen to win the interaction, not to hear the content.
In case you were holding out any hope: Students at the University of Leicester have calculated exactly how long it would take to teleport a human from Earth to a point in circular orbit. The short answer: A really, really, really long time.
Fox News this week has the not very surprising news that the Obama Administration is looking for social scientists to help form a “Behavioral Insights Team” that, like the group […]
We at Big Think are thrilled to join the YouTube partner program with the launch of Big Think Mentor, a subscription channel designed to meet a growing demand among our audience to see the world-class ideas on Big Think transformed into actionable tools to improve their lives.
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time you’ll probably be familiar with the name Sokal from the Sokal affair, the scandal in 1996 in which physicist […]
“Not only can small groups of people change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Introducing Thomas Cathcart’s new Big Think blog series, Why Philosophize?
We certainly can’t say that it definitely started on Mars, but it seems very plausible that it did.
Brushing your teeth with the wrong hand can increase things that might matter to you much more, like sticking with an exercise program.
A life well-lived is likely to serve others while satisfying our inner passions. When people get lost in their lives and careers, Sir Ken Robinson would argue, they’re usually serving one at the expense of the other.
If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability.
At this week’s Black Hat conference, security expert Fran Brown plans to demonstrate technology that can clone any passive RFID badge within a three-foot radius.
We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them.
Can the incredibly concrete and the totally abstract coexist?
Bryan Sykes on how he became enthralled with nature and natural history.
We’ve made a little progress, perhaps in applications, but not a lot of progress in understanding the hard problem.