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The Harvard psychologist loves reading authors’ rules for writing. Here are his own.

Moderate drinking is associated with a longer lifespan in just about every population ever studied, says Dr. Claudia Kawas, professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine.

While more controlled psychostimulants like amphetamines and cocaine facilitate a rush of blood to the whole brain, caffeine actually restricts blood flow overall. 

President Donald Trump has requested that the U.S. armed forces stage a parade in the nation’s capital to feature America’s military might. The timing and source of the request has drawn a mixture of opinion.

The size of the U.S.-Mexico border wall proposed by the Trump administration seems shockingly ambitious when overlaid onto a map of Europe.

Tickets are on sale to view the launch of SpaceX’s largest rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which carries with it humanity’s ambition to land astronauts on the surface of Mars.

We break down the eight specific brain functions that were evaluated by the President’s recent cognitive assessment.

The US island territory of Puerto Rico, recently devastated by category 4 hurricane Maria, remains without electricity.

Here are this week’s top comments on Big Think content from across the Web.

Here are this week’s top comments on Big Think content from across the Web.

According to a study recently published in the journal Emotion, being in awe of nature may make individuals less likely to accept scientific explanations for the existence of our universe.

LIGO is celebrating apparent confirmation of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, specifically that space and time are really one unit that exist as part of a gravitational grid.

Anyone not wanting to accept Syrian refugees should really consider this historical analogy.

The online vigilante group says it has located personal information belonging to ISIS recruiters living in Europe.

NASA is getting really serious about its mission to land humans on Mars in the 2030s.

These findings are extremely helpful.

Younger siblings generally have a lower IQ than their older brothers and sisters, according to three large national surveys from the US, UK, and Germany.

Baby giraffes can stand within hours of birth and zebras can run in the first 45 minutes of life.

Coloring books for adults are an intriguing new hobby, breaking into the mainstream like the young-adult fiction boom before them. 

Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Joel and Ethan Coen are bringing it all together.

There are apparently some high-stakes moral implications to taking selfies.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s comments are plainly spoken, aspirational, and cognizant of an American aesthetic. It’s presidential material, actually.

A federal judge has dragged reproductive rights out of the mud of religion into the lofty heights of moral philosophy.

The truth is a bitter pill to swallow, they say. Yet much of today’s information economy is built on the premise that knowing more is better. 

The fantasies, institutions, and humans at Dismaland do not merely sometimes fail us — they are marked for death from the start.

The Black Mambas regularly face unpredictable safari animals and heavily armed poachers.

Professional bodybuilders say the amount of muscle Jake Gyllenhaal gained in six months is impossible without the use of performance enhancing drugs.

In an unprecedented use of Freedom of Information laws, an anti-GMO group wants to read the emails of forty university professors with professional associations to biotechnology firms.

If you’re a new mom or dad, it’s a really good time to work for Netflix.

A vaccine that did not exist a year ago has proven 100 percent effective at preventing people who are at extremely high risk of infection from contracting the Ebola virus.