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The “lone genius” often gets the credit for big ideas, but real-world innovation is a team sport.

No amount of success can overcome imposter syndrome without a mindset geared toward growth.

Nebulae are beautiful, but so is the process of science.

Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.

By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.

More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.

Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.

In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?

Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.

Many of his criticisms ring true today.

We live in a world dominated by science, but most people don’t understand its most essential characteristic: establishing standards of evidence to keep us from getting fooled by our own biases and opinions.

In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”

An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.

The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.

Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.

Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?

What was so great about Einstein anyway? A group of experts weigh in.

The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.

In hell, we assume a position of moral superiority, looking down over the sinners and the poor decisions that led them to this wretched place. In heaven, Dante is looking down upon us.

Famously, it took Edison over one thousand attempts to successfully create the lightbulb.

How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.

Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.

Tips from neuroscience and psychology can make you an expert thinker.

Living like a genius and finding ways to “optimize” sleep is not necessarily good for your health. Here’s why.

Problem-solving skills are in demand. Every job posting lists them under must-have qualifications, and every job candidate claims to possess them, par excellence. Young entrepreneurs make solutions to social and […]

Join Big Think’s co-founder and president Peter Hopkins in conversation with Professor Linda Hill on what it takes to be a boss during COVID-19.

How the German political philosopher called out Henry David Thoreau on civil disobedience.

Researchers make the case for “deep evidential regression.”