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Neither happiness nor success “can be pursued,” says Viktor Frankl. These states of being must “ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
Spiritual capitalism started in the sixties. Today it has been mastered.
Siddhartha Mukherjee explores the genetics of sex and sexual identity in his new book, The Gene: An Intimate History.
Hallucinations are a feature of our brain’s hardware. Could religious visions be accounted for by this neurological phenomenon?
The sender didn’t have a name nor an address for his letter. So he drew a map instead.
Why do so many men default to saying ‘I got this’ when they really don’t?
In a row over how to bring Internet access to India’s poorest, Facebook almost sounds colonial.
The Lowline is the world’s first underground park. Well, almost: it’s testing the science of growing plants underground on Manhattan’s Lower East Side – and it’s a literal urban jungle.
Mark Zuckerberg recently reiterated that brain-to-brain interfacing is our species future. Today, scientists can have participants move things on a screen with their mind and signal to one another across vast distances. It may someday have therapeutic uses for ADHD, give us sense experiences not akin to our species, and even allow advertisers to invade our minds.
Religious talk has been eerily quiet in the GOP race. But that doesn’t mean it’s absent.
Many predictions by Nikola Tesla, one of the world’s most celebrated inventors, have already come true and some might in the near future.
There’s a new theory out there that these merging black holes came from a single star. What are the odds? “Even if the Fermi detection is a false alarm, future LIGO […]
Three phases in brain development led to the creation of religion. What we do with that is up to us.
Psychedelics came en vogue in the 1960s and since then have been maligned as inducing psychosis. Today, some evidence suggests that tiny doses of these drugs may be useful for curing psychological disorders such as depression, PTSD, and social anxiety, among others. But more research is needed and there are hurdles to overcome.
Part art installation, part green design. Completely cool.
Where do our best ideas come from? As it turns out, science says there are a number of ways to help prime the brain for divergent thinking. If you’ve hit a creative roadblock, here are a few ways to get the ideas flowing.
Ursula Nordstrom changed children’s literature. During her time as the editor-in-chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row, she helped nurture the talents of many authors, such as Shel Silverstein author of The Giving Tree and Maurice Sendak illustrator and author of Where the Wild Things Are.
Monty Python’s Terry Jones argues that economics isn’t a science—it’s history! Forgetting that history inevitably dooms us to the next financial crisis.
I scored an exclusive interview with Dave Reitze, the executive director of LIGO. Take a trip inside his Universe. “When I was in high school, I was certain that being […]
Researchers at the University College of London have proposed the development of a centralized digital currency. It’s unlike Bitcoin, but has all its benefits.
When was the last time anyone cared about an Artic research ship? Exactly.
The Global Challenges Foundation released a Global Catastrophic Risk Report last week. The results aren’t pretty. Or surprising.
The apple of American politics never falls too far from the tree.
We all make small mistakes, but sometimes journalists report the complete and utter opposite of what a study really found.
It’s an old idea made new again, but it just might fall apart. “[The black hole] teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal […]
They are calling him the Elon Musk of biology. But will we see an end to aging soon?
Gamma rays from black holes? It’s an incredible idea… and it’s probably wrong. “That’s the next step: to simultaneously see [gravitational waves] with three, four or five interferometers, localize it quickly, […]
Big Think’s Jason Gots reviews David McCullough’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams.