1 in 3 people over the age of 65 live alone in the United States, and by age 85 it’s 1 in 2. Loneliness is an epidemic. Here’s how to fight it.
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The President’s consideration and rejection of stating a no-first-strike policy puts the U.S. in a no-win position.
It’s the most distant galaxy cluster ever discovered, and it’s exactly in line with our predictions! “These galaxies are among the most massive galaxies in the universe and are believed […]
Turns out narcissistic personality disorders might be hiding a confrontation with fears of inadequacy.
Astrophysicists have been looking for worlds like Proxima b since the 19th century. At last, they’re found! This article is contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in […]
How we know some galaxies have more than others. “Motions of the stars tell you how much matter there is. They don’t care what form the matter is, they just tell […]
UCLA researchers successfully use a new technique to “wake up” a patient after coma.
This discovery could lead to a whole new class of drugs for psychiatric disorders.
Scientists think they may understand why our brains produce false memories.
The sender didn’t have a name nor an address for his letter. So he drew a map instead.
Hospitals are starting to get serious about just how noisy they can be for patients trying to heal.
Which came first, monogamy or the social contract? Evolutionary psychologists and biologists think the latter.
Mother Teresa will be canonized this Sunday, September 4th. What does it take to become a saint, and is the Vatican mistaken to not address Mother Teresa’s flaws?
An expansive new study shows that marijuana use by Americans has increased significantly since 2002.
The thinking behind Turing Machines and “universal systems,” is being extended to build a new kind of physics. “Constructor Theory,” is being developed by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto to better explain life. It even suggests why morality arose.
When the next big solar flare comes for Earth, will we be ready? “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to […]
From obesity and heart attacks to mental disorders and compromised immune systems, a lack of sleep is deadly.
Want five or six extra days every year? Easy – choose streaming over network TV. Adults are sacrificing 130 hours, and kids 150 hours, to ads annually when they watch commercial programming.
Recent research in psychology reveals insights into how the stories we are exposed to affect our identities and ideas. What implications does this hold for the influence of the news and the ethics of journalism?
Allow me to paste a new label onto our country’s most-labelled demographic the Millennials: the food truck generation. 47 percent of Millennials have eaten from a food truck, making them the most likely patrons of those mobile establishments that their parents were more apt to refer to as “roach coaches” or “gut trucks.” Food trucks have been around in some form or another for most of the 20th century, but they were more culturally recognizable as fixtures of isolated workplaces like manufacturing plants and construction sites.
Today, food trucks are estimated to be a $2.7 billion industry and have been reappropriated into a younger, more affluent, more urban cultural ethos. The mass migration of Millennials into cities mirrors to some extent the proliferation of the food trucks on those same city street corners. With their DIY sensibility and appealing sort of grubbiness, food trucks cater to younger folks who have come to search for “authenticity” in their brands – or rather products that give the appearance of being “brandless”. So is it that the proclivities of these young hip urbanized eaters have spurred the rise of the gourmet-food-truck phenomenon? Or is there a larger force that has shaped both the landscape of the restaurant industry and Millennial tastes at once?
A new study suggests that 70% of the time scientists see brain activity on an fMRI, they aren’t.
Each might be as heavy as an asteroid and as tiny as a decimal point.
The present story is only the beginning; there’s a revolution coming! “Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants […]
The increased use of smart drugs to boost brain performance is raising many ethical and practical questions.
Samuel Arbesman warns that we’ve entered a new “age of Entanglement” with our complex technology-based systems.
Look who went and got himself a talk show. Big Think’s regular contributor Bill Nye will be on Netflix in 2017!
Astronomers find a galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter.
Can the art of communal bathing teach us to be more social animals?
A new study finds that by having a plan B, we may unintentionally sabotage our initial plan.
Rumors of a terrorist gunman escalated at LAX. A panicked crowd trampled an old woman, snapping her femur. In our best Dick Cheney voice: “If you allow blind fear to disrupt society, the terrorists have already won.”