New research out of Johns Hopkins University suggests babies whose expectations are challenged by surprise tend to learn more efficiently.
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Could humans someday live to be 1,000 years old? Life extension and radical longevity are rising topics of conversation among futurist circles… and wealthy tech entrepreneurs are listening.
The 2013 Edward Snowden leaks still resonate for tech companies wary of being seen as too aligned with the U.S. government.
Many experts — including Big Think expert Bill Nye — argue that the greatest extent threat to human survival is an asteroid collision.
Four states are currently in the process of approving measures to allow high school students to fulfill foreign language-learning requirements with a computer language instead.
Developing repeatable reading habits will allow you to block out the distracting noise of the outside world and focus more intently on your calming activity.
Thanks to Big Think’s favorite experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will have a photographic record of how Tempe, Arizona, in 3015 ended up that way.
“It’s always better to leave the party early,” said Bill Watterson, author of the beloved comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes.” Watterson famously chose to end “Calvin and Hobbes” in 1995 after only 10 years of syndication.
If you’re lucky enough to have a professional colleague take you under their wing, you have to identify ways to nurture that relationship from the receiving end.
Don’t believe any caller who claims they work for the IRS. The IRS will never call or email you. The best course of action you can take is to spread the word to help stop the success of these scams.
Dr. Tesia Marshik who is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse walks us through the extensive evidence that learning styles don’t exist, before looking at why the belief is so widespread and why the belief is such a serious problem.
The possibilities were almost limitless, so why does everything line up? “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless […]
Introducing a performance aspect to your job interviews will help you identify which candidates possess the most acute learning skills.
While it’s easy to laugh off a pseudo-religion that battles cosmic tax auditors and exorcises invisible atomic volcanic gremlins, that’s merely the hypnotic gibberish hiding the organization’s true intention: amassing capital and property worldwide. And like many other religions, they’re wildly successful.
The news is the latest in a series of escalating business deals in the wake of the Obama administration’s announcement in December that the U.S. and Cuba would pursue full relations for the first time in 54 years.
Some supposed rationalists would have us believe we are ill-fated idiots. An ancient Greek myth of Prometheus can help us see how to avert this modern tragedy of reason (whereby a sub-natural view of rationality risks making ancient idiots of us).
“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Without this one piece of the puzzle, everything we know falls apart. “Is no one inspired by our present picture of the Universe? This value of science remains unsung by […]
The Icelandic government is considering a radical financial shift that would effectively end banking as we know it.
Research shows that kids who get to school under their own steam enjoy learning benefits in the classroom. Unfortunately, varying social factors and infrastructural limitations often make such commutes difficult, if not impossible.
Behind every behavior there are four potential explanations: It’s been done to solve a tangible and practical problem. It’s a habit (and thus an automatic response to a cue). It’s […]
The genius of meetings at the office, and other forms of communal decision-making, is that everyone can bring their unique knowledge to bear on a specific problem.
Steel yourself before a job interview — research shows nervous, slow-talkers tend to not get the gig.
Beards are badges of symbolic honor that, by expressing dominance, help men to compete for female suitors.
Giving others credit when it isn’t due may sound counterintuitive, but it is what skilled managers and leaders do. The principle applies to people who work for us as much […]
“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster.”
He hasn’t shot an episode of Let’s Make a Deal for decades, but Monty Hall’s name still graces a statistical brouhaha from the early 1990s, and the drama he cultivated on […]
Biomechanical scientists have created a simple device that can increase walking efficiency, or “human gas mileage,” by an average of 7 percent when worn around the ankle.
Global Population Boom: Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both? Professor Joel Cohen first asks and answers the question, “How did humans grow from small populations on the African […]
Of the many concepts of Judaism artist Mark Rothko took to heart, the idea of tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repairing the world,” penetrated the deepest. In Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, academic and a cultural historian Annie Cohen-Solal cuts to the heart of Rothko’s life and art and sheds new light on how both seemingly had to end at The Rothko Chapel (shown above), the Houston home of Rothko’s final works that he tragically didn’t live long enough to see himself. In this tightly focused new biography, Cohen-Solal shows us both how The Rothko Chapel culminates Rothko’s life-long mission to repair his world and how it continues to serve as a light of hope in our darkening world.