For many companies, particularly those in the tech and manufacturing sectors, innovation is the lifeblood of the company. Entire advocacy groups have been created with the basic goal of protecting […]
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Steven Kotler talks about the neuroscience about how flow state turns off time.
The season finale gets the one thing Star Trek is famous for — ethics — completely wrong. Life is full of dilemmas whose solutions seem paradoxical. To obtain peace, you must prepare for war. […]
Two sociologists examine how religious practice impacts African American and Latino marriages.
Businesses have been adopting more diversity programs since the 1990s, but do they actually work?
Artificial wombs just got a lot closer to becoming a reality. But who will benefit from this groundbreaking technology? And what do feminists have to say about it?
Here’s what the roots of both ends of the word Christmas mean.
“No great genius has ever existed without a strain of madness.” -Aristotle
Unless we take a more scientific approach to philanthropy, we risk spending a lot of money doing some very backward, ineffective, and inefficient things.
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.
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?
Is Facebook making you unhappy? A recent Danish study found that a one-week break from Facebook had positive effects concerning life satisfaction and increasing positive emotions.
“Positive psychologists” are relearning old wisdom about a logic built into our biology which ensures that flourishing takes effort and skill.
Most stars obey very similar rules, making them almost entirely predictable. But then, there are the weirdos. Catch this live-blog event to learn more. When we look out at the Universe […]
It turns out there’s quite a bit of cognitive dissonance impairing our understanding of motivation and happiness. Duke University’s Professor Dan Ariely fills in the gaps.
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Right and wrong has never been so gray in the Star Trek Universe. Imagine you’re in a fight with an enemy, and the fight itself isn’t fair. You might have […]
There’s been an alarming uptick in sufferers of depression turning to opioids, increasing addiction numbers.
“We’re coming to understand the basic building blocks of personality,” Dr. Fisher said.
Pluripotent stems cells might be the key to creating reliable lab-grown meat.
Everybody wants to be happy, right? Who wouldn’t try to get as many pleasurable experiences as they could? Well, if this philosopher is right. You wouldn’t.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Rolling Stone political journalist Matt Taibbi on the media and political circus of the 2016 campaign trail, the search for happiness, and where we go from here.
It illustrates the dangers of rip currents.
From “Under The Sea” to “Part of your world” Happy Halloween!
An accidental discovery may lead to a vaccine-like treatment for depression and PTSD.
A new brain-to-computer interface lets completely locked-in patients tell us how they feel for the first time.
A study by University of Toronto psychologists reveals how to have a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.
Stephen Hawking has accepted an offer to go to space. He’s one of the world’s most famous scientists, who’s been paralyzed due to ALS for much of his life.
Two addiction specialists believe we need to reframe the conversation around psychedelics.
The belief that things will be better in the future is called optimism bias. Being overly optimistic can lead you to miss an important health check up or make bad financial decisions.
New research reveals we frequently worry about aging. Ironically, as we become older and the effects of aging set in, we tend to become more optimistic about life.