Increasingly, the Internet reflects our vision of the offline world where people naturally gravitate toward groups who already share our opinion on social and political matters.
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Just as Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet is more often bedeviled by his own thoughts, enhancing your brain might one day mean shutting parts of it down, not getting it to fire on all cylinders.
This photo was snapped by Walter Callens at Gobustan (sometimes written as “Quobustan”) in Azerbaijan. His description: Settled since the 8th millennium BC, the area contains thousands of rock engravings […]
It has been amusing listening to the religious right’s argument that marriage must be between a man and woman for one simple reason: the institution itself has been crumbling for […]
Through a telescope, this swarm of star appears extremely oblate. But is it really? Image credit: via http://vilagbiztonsag.hu/keptar/displayimage.php?album=19&pid=19138. “If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that […]
It’s fairly well-understood that the current generation of new employees doesn’t expect to remain in the same job for longer than five years. If you want to keep your millennials from moving on to new employment, you have to incentivize their staying on.
Of all the standard myths and accepted truths of the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, the idea of the “Romantic” Beethoven—the embodiment of Germanic sturm und drang and […]
Attracting talent is important for any business. Teaming up with a university allows a company to identify and court promising new employees.
One of the scariest parts of being fired is that it seemingly affixes a scarlet letter to your chest for future hiring managers to avoid. But if you approach the conversation correctly, a recent firing could be harnessed as an asset in a job interview.
If your college-bound kid attended public high school, he/she probably didn’t receive any sort of education related to personal finance. It’s on you, as parent, to guide them toward making smart choices as an adult.
“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted […]
“When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t […]
Philip Zimbardo is one of the most famous and prolific psychologists of the past half-century. Best-known as the father of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo is also author of […]
If you’re a recent college grad frustrated that the salary you needed to pay your private student loans never materialized, you have the sympathy of Daniel Altman, Big Think’s Chief […]
James Duigan, founder of the London-based Bodyism gym, says you need to tame the psychological urges to eat unhealthy before you can really take the next step. After that, focus on fresh, seasonal, and organic foods.
How to turn the greatest NASA images in history into wallpaper, curtains, fabric and more! Image credit: Elinor Medezinski, Suprime-Cam/Subaru Telescope; ZwCl 0024–17. “I’m coming back in… and it’s the […]
The technologists who brought you online dating, music streaming platforms, e-readers, and mobile phones are now tackling food production.
How you get to work, and how long that journey takes, generally determine the level of satisfaction you have with your commute, according to British and Canadian researchers.
“We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need […]
From pinpointing different brain regions to the treatment of neurological disorders, scientists have demonstrated that the brain is a highly plastic organ capable of learning new things well into the later stages of life.
It’s technically a semi-rigid airship, so calling it a blimp could get you in trouble with the semantics police. What’s not in dispute is how Wingfoot One represents a major step forward in airship technology.
Transitioning into a single-earner household requires patience and an open mind. It also means taking a hard look at your family finances.
Many big companies utilize an applicant tracking system (ATS) to organize all the names and résumés submitted to them. Getting the attention of a hiring manager means getting past the ATS.
And, in general, how would you be able to tell? Image credit: Mahdi Zamani, via http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/guests_photos.asp?ID=5001660. “When I was ten all I knew was that I hated the weird words […]
You wouldn’t likely shop online for new shoes or look up baseball stats at a meeting held in your office, but what about on a conference call? The cloak of invisibly is powerful freedom…
Is it better to set aside office time for team training activities or to take advantage of digital technology, allowing everyone to learn at the their own pace and in their own time?
There are undeniable advantages to carrying a whole library on your Kindle or tablet computer but retaining the information you read doesn’t seem to be one of them.
The music we listen to strongly informs our emotions and choosing the right tunes can easily alter how we interact with our surroundings: a romantic song for date night versus a get-up-and-go song for the morning commute.
Are we becoming too obsessed with the idea that people can’t think straight? When I began blogging here at BigThink five years ago, I would have said no. After all, […]
Want a career shift? Learning to code could be your ticket to a better life. With computer programming booming in popularity, you’ve got a bevy of educational choices to choose from.