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My prediction is, in a few decades, we will come to accept entities that are not biological as conscious. 

Good versus Evil will always be the stock and trade of storytelling, especially in comic books. The skill of separating good guys from bad comes early to readers, with the […]

We know that the Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, but we also know we can see for 46 billion light-years. How is this possible? “Nature decrees that […]

The Internet Pioneer generation loves advertising. They want advertising to be content. 

At the time of his arrest in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted cyber criminal in the United States. The arrest marked the end of an intense two and a half year electronic manhunt, a game of cat and mouse that Mitnick likens to a video game. 

I wish I could sketch well because it turns out that so many ideas start with images. 

I was pretty disappointed to read a post from fellow Big Think blogger, Steven Mazie. The backlash has been substantial, he has already had to rehash. His post begins with […]

Family size is a much larger determinate of personality than the order of one’s birth. 

Why do we have some people who are very religious who look at the world and other people in very compassionate ways and we have other people who are very religious and they look at the world in very negative ways?

Executives for the country’s only major coffee chain says the multinational company’s planned entry into their market should help entice more Colombians to try coffee drinks.

Your market is no longer a domestic market.  Your market is a global market. 

I think religious people can really help to bring the end of war about very rapidly if they embrace the tenants of their faith.

Will a wonderful pristine planet like Earth appear to be inhabited?

While Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley busy themselves making every aspect of our lives more efficient (except, perhaps, for the process of discovering these new technologies, learning them, and integrating […]

It’s your puzzle.  Do it any way you like.

A petition garnered 120,000 signatures, which is more than enough to merit a government vote, possibly before the end of this year. If it passes, it will apply to every member of the working adult population.

We’re no closer to solving this problem than we were 20 or 30 years ago.

As people in different countries are able to tell their own stories they are responding to the idea of Africa as a place of permanent suffering.

Sickweather uses social media posts that mention sickness to create a geographical “illness map” so that users can navigate their way around potential “storm activity.”

In their study, Monash University researchers put a number on it: During a 16-minute trip, the average parent takes their eyes off the road for nearly three and a half minutes.

Because Petri dishes are so 20th-century: University of Texas scientists have created microscopic habitats for bacteria using layers of protein and a high-precision laser. They mimic the natural environments found in human organs.

“Rapid urbanization is the fastest, most intense social phenomenon that ever happened to humankind, perhaps to biology on Earth. I think we can now start to understand in new and […]

“How I’ll gobble Paris up, if I’m lucky enough to go back there!” painter Fernand Léger wrote in a 1915 letter home from the front lines of World War I. […]

You need to maintain a network that’s not only deep but also broad. 

In science, and genomics in particular, the difference between what we know and what we don’t is enormous.  At this point, we’re still figuring out how much we don’t know. 

We resist our callings because they call us out of our habitual lives.

Proust’s lesson is, “I lay in bed and by looking at things properly, and I felt properly alive.”

Once you have an opinion about what’s going to happen, you can no longer find things that are true, you only look for things that track your own opinion. 

We need whitespace because that’s really often when our most creative ideas emerge, when our real desires for our lives can speak.

Sir Ken Robinson wants to help remedy a dangerous and growing trend in developed countries toward career dissatisfaction and disconnectedness.