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A little bit of philosophy can be a dangerous thing.

The human mind likes simplicity. It’s a complicated world, so we filter it into one cohesive and easy-to-digest worldview. This perspective is a rather unscientific one, however. When we observe […]

The most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen was not produced by Wes Craven or found in a theme park, it’s what I see some people do to themselves to lose weight. Take a look at these SEVEN scary diets . . . but reader beware if you’re easily grossed-out!

They combed through 1,000 obituaries.

While it’s not the first attempt to bring writers and researchers together for brainstorming, the Hieroglyph project’s focus is on producing aspirational outcomes at a time when darker fictional futures are in the spotlight.

In the past, new technologies brought new jobs. Today, some experts foresee a future in which automation could take millions of people out of the workforce completely.

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. 

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

“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Really?

Seventy-five years ago, The Museum of Modern Art staged their first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer—Walker Evans: American Photographer. That show brought together many of Walker […]

“Everyone can write but there are few good writers. Just because everyone can [write] doesn’t mean that there’s talent,” Paul Verhoeven told an audience at the Tribeca Film Festival after […]

Here’s what F. Scott Fitzgerald thought about his classic American novel “The Great Gatsby.”

Michael Malice is one of those uniquely New York characters. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, the thirty-six year old with spikey hair, cunning eyes, and a constant mischievous […]

Faced with data showing the first-ever decline of pay-TV subscribers over a 12-month period, a skeptic of the phenomenon is starting to reverse his position.

We’re bopping around like little birds on a wire looking at anything that pops up.

One software developer is doing just that, via a Kickstarter campaign offering digital footprints of various sizes for as little as US$2.

A new style of writing reflects the assumption that people take in information in little chunks and nuggets and don’t really have the ability to immerse themselves in the text and pay attention.  

I find it fascinating that based on what we now know, we can’t yet say that it’s impossible to travel in time. 

Writer Farhad Manjoo argues that systematic surveillance in cities that are terrorist targets may be the simplest and best way to improve security. Besides, he says, it’s not like we’re not being watched already.

Writer David Meyer hones in on what this crypto-currency experiment — regardless of whether it succeeds or fails — could mean for the future. According to him, “The genie is out of the bottle.”

With the slow death of “appointment television” comes an increasing tendency for spoilers to pop up in unexpected places. Writer Sean T. Collins discusses fans’ and critics’ attempts to preserve the suspense.

I have great hope that we can continue progress for quite some long time. But eventually in each area progress does slow down a bit.

The first two words that came to my mind about the Rolling Stone cover of The Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were “craven” and “disingenuous,” but they were followed by other words. […]

A publishing CEO urged his industry peers to bring literary authors and software developers together to create something better than ebooks, which he said were “a boring format that just comes straight out of normal books.”

The monks of Mepkin and agnostics like Warren Buffett alike have been wildly successful in business not despite their fanatical commitment to the highest principles but because of them.

So strong has the role of neuroscience become in explaining our behavior that artists may have little choice but to tackle its premises in their works, particularly the novel, to elucidate characters.

To buy Stephen King’s latest novel, Joyland, you’ll have to go to an actual bookstore in an actual place. He’s not e-publishing it. I got my first Kindle 18 months […]

The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald is a traitor and should be arrested. Glenn Greenwald is a hero and a practicing journalist. That’s the debate in mainstream media that’s overshadowing the news […]

Whether you’re aware of it or not, your unconscious insecurities hold you back, and you need to be able to construct your failure narrative if you hope to reach your true potential. 

At the turn of the century when the internet first began to blow up, a wonderful technology emerged called Rich Site Summary, now more commonly known as Really Simple Syndication […]