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Technology extends our thought, our reach, our vision, helps us transcend our boundaries. I think that's a message everybody can get behind. 

For the uninitiated, we have compiled a short list of Tumblrs that are worth checking out. Please share your recommendations with the Big Think community. 

If the maxim "Life finds a way" happens to hold true on a distant planet, it likely not to be our way. 

I assert that if you are depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.

One reason to have a liberal education—one that’s usually neglected by all those experts these days who are saying that the value of an education is measured by the money […]

You've undoubtedly heard the maxim "Life finds a way." Well, if life has indeed found a way on one of the other trillions of planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, it would likely not be our way.

Here’s the third part of my celebration of Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos.  I know I’m annoying many BIG THINK readers.  I may even be bad for their health; […]

Modern cosmology, the understanding of our origin and evolution, can give us the understanding that we’re all in this together. 

The title Lost in the Cosmos is meant to be a correction to Carl Sagan’s “splendid picture book” Cosmos, which Percy understands as a failed self-help book.  Sagan aims to get […]

"Everything happens for a reason" is my very least favorite thing for someone to say.

James Webb will grant a peerless gaze at the universe the likes of which we've never seen.

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the charge that conservatives are bad because they hate science.  But it’s just not true.  Here’s a beginning of my explanation why. We […]

The original observation was effectively a lack of an observation. The conclusion was dinosaurs. 

So lots of readers (about six) have written ME asking for advice on what book they should read to turn their lives around. Here’s my recommendation:  Lost in the Cosmos by […]

1. Extreme Weather is the New Normal Happy Spring! That means it’s time to expect winter storms. That’s the new normal, according to National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini. “We have observed […]

There is no way to understand tragedies like these in an ontological framework of the cosmos. 

What Tyson has done is presented science from another angle. Call it the "we don’t know it yet" angle.

So BIG THINK published a sensible little essay by the distinguished public intellectual John Gray.  He says don’t think about immortality as something you can achieve through your own efforts. […]

Last week two articles were published stating that meditation is not necessarily a component of living a spiritual life, as well as that we generally don’t recognize what real meditation […]

Over the past two weeks on BigThink, I’ve shared the first two of a three-part dialogue between myself and the Danish psychotherapist Ole Vadum Dahl (read part 1 and part […]

Experiencing the "overview effect" appears to be transformational. Studies show that feelings of awe make subjects more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer to help others.

There’s a popular myth in the American yoga community that Indian vegetarianism began as a spiritual response to humanity’s place in the cosmos. The concept of ahimsa, or non-violence, is […]

One of the more ubiquitous statements that has emerged over the last decade, ‘Spiritual, Not Religious’ is a self-affirming antidote to the traditional trappings of religion, the archaic and inflexible […]

Poets quite often make the best art critics. The same aesthetic antennae attuned to language and meaning come into play when diving into the meaning of visual art. So, when […]

With Easter and Passover on the minds of so many millions of Christians and Jews this weekend, so are the deeper themes of renewal, promise, and liberation that these religious […]

The more we learn about the universe, the more we move back to the center again.

Krishnamurti was faced with an unsolvable dilemma not unfamiliar to spiritual teachers. He often implored his audience to not take anything he says as truth, but to find it for […]

Here’s a published dialogue that I did with my friend Deepak Chopra in which we discuss the challenges of standing up for Spirit in a secular culture. Enjoy! __________________________________ ANDREW […]

Security is perhaps the most well-known illusion human beings have contrived. From the cursory seduction of emotional stability to the wrathful manifestation of raging armies, the painful longing for complete […]

In an interview late last month, Republican senator Marco Rubio, who’s widely viewed to be laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential run, announced that he doesn’t know how old […]