Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
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We’re still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
Successful constructive criticism is as much about mindset as methods.
With U.S. infrastructure crumbling, an honor oath and iron ring remind engineers of their profession’s ethical weight.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries.
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
A marketing professional decided to think creatively and create a resume-bot. It helped him land 14 interviews and 11 job offers.
“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”
Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.
Before Herbert came along and wrote Dune, few if any sci-fi stories were set in fully realized universes.
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
“I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences.”
Is “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, “Trotsky” still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium.