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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Author Salman Rushdie on the secret life of cities and so much more. 

Caffeine makes us feel more awake but also decreases our ability to taste sweetness

How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]

John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Maya Angelou all had different approaches to writing. Here’s some of their best advice. 

Can imagination be measured and quantified? That’s what scientists at the University of Pennsylvania’s Imagination Institute are trying to figure out.

This research may help us develop diamonds for products and better understand nuclear fusion.   

As a leader, setting up an innovation training course for your employees can be tough. Not only do you have to account for how employees access training resources (online video […]

In The Road to Character, David Brooks argues that our moral vocabulary is severely lacking.

Hope has played a significant role in the lives of African Americans throughout history, from early abolitionists to Martin Luther King and President Obama.

The only way the furies are stopped is by “giving them a place of honor.”   

135,355 people in eighteen countries can’t be wrong. 

Millennials, aka the generation of workers born between 1980 and 2000, are a bit different from previous generations. This is the first generation to grow up with the internet, Google, […]

Science communication is about more than just “stating facts.” A lot more. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” –Neil deGrasse […]

Polygamy has been denounced by the Mormon church for more than 100 years. So why does the stereotype persist?

Salman doesn’t know why we can’t all just get along. If both sides just talked to each other and were less emotional and more pragmatic in their arguments, we might have a better chance of coexisting.

It’s incredibly simple and straightforward, and the science doesn’t lie. (And yes, global warming played a role!) “The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can’t flood […]

It could add $83 billion to the U.S. economy in 10 years—and that’s a very conservative estimate.

A US-based company is genetically creating proteins similar to bovine collagen to make leather from living cells without the need of animals.  

Another week, another chance to stick our comment-boots on and wade out deep into the Big Think Facebook page to cherry pick our favorites for the week. 

Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.   

This could end the days of suffering through cancer treatment.   

Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.

We’re talking Ghost in the Shell type of stuff. 

A new study offers a theory of how the Universe was filled with visible light, up to a billion years after the Big Bang.

What do you make of the image above? Day Glow slippers under a black light? Colorful sleeping bags for a trio of Minions? March of the Radioactive Penguins? Of course, it’s none of the above.

Astrophysicists turn Saturn’s moons and rings into music.

Our most common fears of the “other” extend even into outer space. Here’s why those fears are baseless. “Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without […]

A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.   

The Actors’ Gang Prison Project has spent ten years proving that teaching prisoners self-worth and emotional intelligence pays off.

Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that’s often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?