As we take seats at that table we have different perspectives.
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Well, okay, maybe you are dumb, drunk, vapid, and horny (oh, and also, lazy and narcissistic—see Time). You’re young, after all. In case you’ve not seen them, some Colorado ads […]
The more people are attending to threat-related stimuli, the more anxious they get.
I think experimentation is a really important part of the lifecycle of a company both strategically and from an innovative point of view.
Ideas spread around not just through human word-of-mouth.
In this darkly hilarious outtake from his interview for Big Think Mentor, Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium – warns that the universe is homicidal […]
People will not gloat about success. They will gloat about failure. It’s just the fact of life.
By occupying or inspecting or exploring other views of the world you can potentially identify some of the blind spots in our own views.
Big Think and TEDMED, the TED licensee for health and medicine, are collaborating on an upcoming series on how you can apply emerging ideas in health and science to your own life.
A new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly blame the GOP for the catastrophe that continues this evening in Washington. Things are getting so bad for the Republicans that prospects for reopening the government and avoiding a debt-ceiling crisis are, I think, looking up.
It’s a great luxury for a society to take it’s 18 to 21 year olds and to let them develop as thinkers.
If you were really concerned about expenditures on entitlements, you would take people whose families have lived here for a very long time and weren’t being economically productive and you would deport them.
Technology makes some conversations seem pointless, boring.
We have a misconception that making things "isn’t knowledge work and it isn’t about ideas.
Bryan Sykes on how he became enthralled with nature and natural history.
You can get easily distracted by the next thing, the next thing, the next thing.
Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.
Some unconvincing reasons not to philosophize.
Bonobos have sex with everybody basically all the time. Well, not everybody.
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.
The world has a hole in it that is shaped just like you and it needs your voice to fill that hole.
For many of us, adult life is an extension of middle school awkwardness, mitigated only by a cultivated apathy. Sir Ken Robinson says it doesn’t have to be that way.
This topic deserves more attention. Below you will find an [abridged] transcript of a fascinating talk given on Chinese identity by Frank Ching, an American writer and journalist. It touches […]
There are also outliers like me who would choose to have female children or gay children and would balance things out.
Here are all of the arguments against Edward Snowden. This is why they are wrong.
Engineer Alex Hornstein is the creator of Tiny Pipes, a system that's turned out to be a bargain for residents of one off-the-grid Philippine island.
One factor that is involved in resilience is having a moral compass, a set of beliefs that few things can shatter.
Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.
Artists have an implicit understanding of a universal biological principle: "people have limited attentional resources."
The ultimatum game is the ultimate test of fairness, and chimpanzees passed the test by going for the fair options.