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Complex systems can fall apart really quickly if they tip over the edge of chaos.
The people who build their own theories of the universe tend to work alone and that is both a wonderful thing because it means they have the courage to create […]
If we really want to help people we can’t just be driven by emotion.
Scott Barry Kaufman (@sbkaufman) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU, co-founder of The Creativity Post, Scientific American blogger, and a friend. He is also the author of Ungifted: Intelligence […]
The question is not so much work-life balance, but is rest versus effort.
Ramez Naam looks at the power of innovation to overcome natural resource and environmental challenges.
Smoke-free products such as electronic cigarettes are a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, despite the FDA’s obstinate refusal to permit companies from saying so.
Is abortion the most futile policy debate ever? Sometimes I wish the entire country would enter collective, premature menopause just to end it, already. The anti-abortion initiatives and state laws […]
Professor Benjamin Ginsberg of Johns Hopkins, the nation’s leading critic of administrative bloat in higher education, has a modest proposal worthy of Jonathan Swift himself. If we’re going to have the […]
Darwin literally said that many of the social instincts, as he called it, of the animals are represented in our human morality.
Steven Mazie has a post on the front page today about Ben Bernanke’s Princeton commencement speech this year, and his call to the graduating class to “share their luck with […]
A few months ago I posted a piece which has become my most popular blog post by quite a landslide.The postcovered various techniques for learning and looked at the empirical […]
Stop harking so much on the past. What’s done is done.
If you’re like most Americans, you probably spent most of the long Fourth of July weekend hanging out at a family BBQ, watching baseball, enjoying the fireworks and… obsessively checking […]
Modern cosmology, the understanding of our origin and evolution, can give us the understanding that we’re all in this together.
A rejoinder to the author of the Neurobonkers blog post criticizing my take on Edward Snowden.
Big Think Mentor connects world-class mentors with a global community of smart, driven users to teach the habits of mind and people skills we need to live happier, healthier, more productive lives.
Where we live structures so many of our other life options.
“The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name,” wrote historian Daniel J. Boorstin in his 1962 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America. The […]
While medical literature commonly identifies race as an independent risk factor for certain diseases, such an emphasis may obfuscate the search for more significant causes of illness.
I became a writer after I read Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller when I was 22. I couldn’t believe somebody wrote that book.
The idea that “true happiness” is of a uniformly high emotional pitch, and our tendency to expect it from external things ironically ends up causing us a great deal of suffering.
by Suzanne Ehlers, for Population Action International A walk to her local clinic may take several hours. She may have to wait in line. She may have to go back […]
That would make it about ten times older than the oldest accepted examples of cartography
We have not used the net to promote the kind of peer-to-peer economy that challenged feudalism in the 1100s and 1200s.
James Webb will grant a peerless gaze at the universe the likes of which we’ve never seen.
Introducing Buddhism, Blasphemy, and Blackmail
I’ve come up with many business ideas for my startups by attending conferences that are outside my realm.
In a controversial book, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, journalist Daniel Bergner argues that female sexual desire is just as strong and just as […]