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Citizen scientists are advancing scientific knowledge.

Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.

For accurate, factual alerts and updates, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is the most comprehensive, reliable news source you could possibly go to. Since 1983, the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island […]

If you blinked—or if you were in the wrong market—you might have missed a commercial for Scientology during the Super Bowl. You probably also missed the Twitter pushback.  

The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 21 new videos!

Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad?

How can we make the internet a better place for kids? Google has just released a free program called Be Internet Awesome to educate kids on phishing, passwords, media literacy, and being kind online. Will it help?

And the one “sucker’s question” you must never answer, even if the salesperson asks it. For a majority of American adults, a car is a necessity of daily life. From commuting […]

Who will live on the this brand-new floating nation in the South Pacific—and how?

Did Elon Musk invent Bitcoin? The mystery surrounding the creator of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency deepens.

Psychopathy and sadism play a prominent role among those who choose to take it up. 

The internet is ablaze in controversy over the new AI “Gaydar” study. Did the researchers do anything wrong by pursuing this research?

Getting a self-directed learning (SDL) course off the ground is an enormous challenge for many organizations. While SDL empowers employees to make their own decisions and control the direction and […]

When a ‘Rick and Morty’ fan recently tweeted at Dan Harmon asking how to deal with depression, it didn’t take him long to reply.

Some good ones this week. Did you make the cut? 

Facebook has been cataloguing our faces because…um.

There are only two perfect numbers that fit on the calendar: 6 and 28, making June 28th Perfect Number Day. Find out what makes a number perfect, and why they matter. […]

Why do you check your phone 150 times a day? Is it a conscious choice, or have the attention merchants gotten into your head?

Can female nudity ever be empowering?

British doctors publish a study of a woman who cured herself of cancer with the aid of a household spice.

The researcher behind some well-known gender studies is accused of making them all up.

“At times, it seems as if we are condemned to try to understand our own time with conceptual frameworks more than half a century old.” Historian Niall Ferguson says it’s time for an update. 

The social media behemoth wants you to use their platform less, not more, than before. 

Technical knowledge continues to be privileged over social knowledge.

Scientists model the first virtual neurons to better understand the living brain.

People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and […]

While it can often be tempting to unfollow friends who have differing political views than you, one philosopher tells us why we should embrace, rather than shun, such challenges to our worldviews. 

But there are resources, tips, and telltale signs to keep you from being duped. “Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as […]

A new study in mice shows that fasting increases BDNF, a protein that promotes the growth of neuronal connections. 

In her new book, Creative Change, social psychologist Jennifer Mueller says everyone loves the idea of creativity even while we prefer the status quo.