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Memories triggered by smell are more emotional than those triggered by sounds, pictures or words

If the Bible got slavery wrong, something as easy and obvious, a moral outrage, the odds that the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality wrong is pretty high.

If consumers thought about the economics of Restaurant Week, they might prefer to stay away.

Obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects.

One of cartography’s most persistent myths: mapmakers of yore, frustrated by the world beyond their ken, marked the blank spaces on their maps with the legend Here be monsters.  It’s […]

While there are many ways in which pundits are gauging economic recovery, some light can be shed from the Red Lobster’s tasty cheddar biscuits.

Here’s a quite engaging and very sensible interview with Bennett Foddy on the possibilities for and the ethics of life extension.  I would put this philosophy professor in the moderately […]

Art theft is a terrible problem worldwide. Aside from robbing the public of enjoying the great works of the past, art theft often leads to damage to the art and […]

Welcome to What Not to Think About. On this blog, Big Think’s editors will pick the stories that are making headlines elsewhere but which we encourage you to ignore. Why? […]

David Foster Wallace studies is on its way to becoming a robust scholarly enterprise; the late author will likely become America’s next canonized writer, says Jennifer Howard.

A limited-edition map celebrated the coincidence of a patriotic occation with a pig-centric one.

Religious people have to reconcile themselves to ignore what the Bible says about gay people—the same way they ignore what the Bible says about polyester, lobster, figs, and women.

The best – and the worst – predictions for the newspaper industry don’t always come true. When Eddie Shah famously broke the print unions at his Stockport print and distribution […]

nn The western Pacific basin is pockmarked with active and extinct volcanoes related to the subduction of the Pacific plate along almost all of its western boundary. An Australian National […]

We’ve all had well-meaning friends remind us that there are “plenty of other fish in the sea,” but the phrase may not be the most fitting fortune-cookie counsel for breakup-ees […]

You may like the taste, but is your dinner worth its cost to our ecosystem?

If Sylvia Earle’s older brother had never borrowed their neighbor’s copper diving helmet and taken his kid sister for a dip in the Weeki Wachee River not far from their […]

If I want you to give time or money to my cause, I’ll say your sacrifice is for “people just like you, just like me,” for “communities like yours, all […]

If you want to speculate about an alternate-universe world without intelligent primates (and who doesn’t?), then your thoughts must turn to the octopus. Because the octopus has a large and […]

Spare some change? This past Thursday, the New York Times ran a special section on giving, the big front page story of which was all about giving small. You know, […]