Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind.
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How the Cosmic Microwave Background — the Big Bang’s leftover radiation glow — continues to shed light on the birth of our Universe. Image credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration. The announcement of the […]
Needing to sneak into a packed venue for a 1963 concert, the Beatles got in with a little help from their friends: the Birmingham City Police.
Ayn Rand fell for the popular misconception of the ancient myth
Only very rarely are artists able to pay their bills through their craft. But that doesn’t mean they’re only relegated to boring desk jobs. In fact, many are able to use their skills to earn a living.
A well-planned international move can help you get the most out of your Social Security benefits and other savings. Just be prepared to give up some typical comforts.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, speaking yesterday at an urban solutions summit, shared visions of various tech transit projects he’d like to see instituted in his city before 2020.
After previously discussing surveillance and autonomous cars, Singularity University’s Brad Templeton returns to Big Think to examine some lighter fare: quantum mechanics and computing.
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”
“You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.”
A massive occupy movement has shut down commerce in Hong Kong’s Central business district as pro-democracy advocates protest for universal suffrage.
Companies are spending billions on digital and much of it is wasted because they’re actually missing three big things in terms of how they’re approaching it. One is they really don’t […]
If you haven’t gotten a single call from a prospective employer, it’s possible your résumé is rubbing hiring managers the wrong way.
Swedish scientists have created a smart, eco-friendly battery that runs on alfalfa and pine resin. The recyclable power source provides about as much power as a regular lithium battery.
We’ve talked about food waste before, but let’s do it again. Nearly 30% of the food produced globally is wasted. In the meantime, 6 million children under the age of five, die […]
A little bit of history was made on Nantucket on Sunday. Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over […]
Chronic anger is a legitimate condition that can cause long-term health effects. Temper your rage now so you can feel a lot better later on.
It took Messier himself more than a decade to observe it, but the reward is a glimpse into the ancient Universe! Image credit: Daniel Verschatse, via http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/m55.htm. “The only thing […]
Hal Luftig, who’s won four Tonys and an Olivier award, explains why there’s no entertainment experience in the world quite like live theater.
“Nudge” policies are spreading across the globe because they supposedly offer a less expensive and more effective way to get people to make the “right” decisions. In the original formulation, such decisions are defined as those that people would like to have made, had they not been hobbled and blinkered at the time by irresistible irrationality.
A recent joint-study between e-commerce platform Bigcommerce and MIT sought to assess the marketing strategies that best attract the attention of Generation Y.
La tour Eiffel rises above Parisian streets.
When Edward Jenner proposed to the parents of 8 year-old James Phipps the risky idea that rubbing some stuff from sick cows onto the young lad might protect him from […]
Your body takes a lot of cues from exposure to light and dark. If you’re jumping multiple timezones in one trip, try to control your exposure for the first few days in order to adapt.
From A to Zucchini, learn how to get anything out! Image credit: The A-steam, via http://www.theasteam.co.uk/stain-odour-removal/. “You can clean your sword as much as you want but the blood still stains […]
Arthur Brennan is a senior lecturer of psychology, research methods and statistics at St George’s, University of London. In a recent Washington Post article, he explains how his team of researchers came to the conclusion that male “sympathy pregnancy” symptoms are real.
Hollywood: City of Scandal. For example, Rin-Tin-Tin was apparently robbed of an Oscar in 1929 when the organizers decided they wouldn’t be taken seriously if they gave an award to a dog. I guess you could say that the voting results were… fixed.
If you’re binge-watching through the night, chances are you’re not getting enough sleep. That means you’re probably not nearly as productive or happy as you should be during the day. Take a crash course in story structure and self-control in order to quash your addiction.
“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”
If something went horribly wrong, could you possibly return to Earth? Image credit: ISRO. “I sometimes catch myself looking up at the Moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our […]