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Becoming a millionaire is not out of grasp for the ordinary person. Here are tried and tested methods for wealth creation to get your plan in action.

On Monday, a relatively small South Korean cryptocurrency exchange revealed hackers had made off with about $37 million in coins, spooking markets worldwide.

We don’t have to stop inquiring or wondering about the far-flung vistas of reality, we just need to do it with some good old-fashioned logic.

If the universe is teeming with life, where is everybody? If this physicist is correct, they have one foot in their graves.

Who needs a hole in the head? As it turns out, lots of people in ancient hospitals did. Why was one society so good at keeping people alive after it opened up their skulls?

A review of 33 trials confirms that loading your body does your brain good.

This might sound crazy, but hear it out: What if we paid politicians higher salaries with bonus incentives?

A study of 15,582 elderly Hong Kong community residents suggests a link between robust intellectual activity and avoiding the onset of dementia.

How much money does it take to be happy? How much is too much? These philosophers have a lot to say about money and how it relates to the good life.

The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 23 brand new videos! The experts featured below are diverse in both their backgrounds and skill sets, ranging from a theoretical physicist […]

The first step is recognizing that physical, mental, and emotional health are interconnected.

Iceland just passed a law that changes its organ donor program from ‘opt-in’ to ‘opt-out’, a move that effectively turns every citizen into a donor unless otherwise specified.

On June 7th, the Canadian Senate will vote on Bill C-45. It is expected to pass, making Canada the first of the G7 nations to legalize recreational marijuana.

We often support ideas without knowing quite why. John Stuart Mill reminds us why capitalism can be great for us and why we should be wary of state power.

Want to learn about innovation? Study hip hop. From the early dance halls to the Wu-Tang Clan, cognitive friction has made hip hop better and better.

At this rate, the country of Japan will have zero population in the year 2500.

Apple’s privacy controls just got a big boost with iOS 12.

Was Oscar Wilde—witty author, gay rights icon, and lover of champagne and material beauty—a radical socialist?

Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, founders of the popular blog, have landed at ORBITER.

From Memojis to revamped and improved AR, here’s the most interesting and useful new features from Apple.

On Monday, the Supreme Court set aside the ruling against Jack Phillips, a baker who cited religious beliefs as the reason he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012.

Starbucks is only the latest example of a very old systemic problem. Are these trainings effective?

President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday that the Russia investigation is unconstitutional and that he has the right to pardon himself, even though he’s “done nothing wrong!”

Gender studies are leaving the college halls and heading into the lab. Increasingly, there have been more rigorous studies into how transgender people neurologically relate to the sex they identify with rather than their biological sex.

Do a little less in your day if you want to do a little more.

And other big questions we explored on our first day at the World Science Festival.

A record-breaking 515 contestants competed in the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee where they faced words like Soubresaut, Condottiere, and Amyloid.

“Our country doesn’t do many things well, but when it comes to big occasions, no one else comes close,” so claimed an instructor I heard at the gym this week. […]

Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?

Artificial intelligence will soon be powerful enough to operate autonomously, how should we tell it to act? What kind of ethics should we teach it?