Culture & Religion

Some disability-access points across America are getting a makeover. The signs now feature a person active and engaged. This change in imagery is part of a larger initiative called the “Accessible Icon Project.”

A learning collaboration between Pixar and Khan Academy helps aspiring animators familiarize themselves with the basics of the craft. The free course is called Pixar in A Box.

How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.

Artists such as Glenn Ligon still look to comedian Richard Pryor to make sense of the African-American experience.

A report from the National Council on Teacher Quality has found teacher-training textbooks aren’t based in evidence.

Democracy is happening like never before, and it’s exploiting our deepest fears and failures.

“If the election for U.S. president were held today, who would you vote for?” Response options included all of the Republican and Democratic candidates in the race at the time, along with options for “Other” and “I would not vote.”

Could Michael Bloomberg actually win? Or should he spend his billions on fixing our broken electoral system instead?

Designed by Uruguayan-born, New York-based architect Rafael Viñoly, the new Laguna Garzón Bridge aims to reduce the speed of crossing cars and encourage drivers to enjoy the view.

Confronting the logic of the “I have nothing to hide” argument.

Our ape ancestors might give us insight into the GOP frontrunner’s sustained dominance.

Big Think’s Jason Gots reviews Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel City on Fire. 

These American artists once challenged the art world with epic land art.  Where are today’s troublemakers?

Hollywood is a gated community, and the stories it chooses to honor speak volumes about how it views race and gender in this country.

Robotic cars are coming. The IT and automobile industries have the throttle wide open to be the first to get the human out of the loop. The “Google Car” is […]

If you’re a white, middle-class woman who scans the headlines all day, you’re more likely than not to be among the angriest of Americans.

The conceptual tools of science had to be painstakingly built. Turns out seemingly self-evident ideas like discovery and facts once weren’t so obvious. In The Invention of Science, David Wootton excavates their history. 

New research demonstrates for the first time the domestic canine’s ability to discern between positive and negative emotions in humans.

Watch entertaining reconstructions of classic experiments demonstrating our predisposition toward dishonesty.

Mark Rothko’s suicide colored how we’ve seen his art ever since. His son’s book paints a brighter, richer picture.

Part art installation, part green design. Completely cool.

Coming to grips with the real changes.

Nick Lane believes he can explain the “black hole” at the heart of biology. And in the process predict traits that even alien life will have. Here are some amazing facts from biology.

A complete refusal to accept basic facts has made a religion of our gun obsession.

General Motors is the latest major car company to make a large investment in ridesharing.

Out with the old, in with the new.

We have a relationship with the Internet that influences and, in some cases, drives our behaviors. Some would call it an addiction.

It’s not as black and white, left brain/right brain as the theories of yore.

A couple Big Think experts take the anxiety out of eating by dishing some digestible advice.

Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.