Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
Need to reduce your stress? Try thinking of the face of your better half.
There is no one answer. But there are 10.
What is socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is it just capitalism?
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”
Thinking your life is worthwhile is correlated with a variety of positive outcomes.
Need to know how an election will turn out? Call your bookie.
Donating to the right charities can save lives.
When a country’s educated or entrepreneurial citizens leave all at once, the phenomenon is called “human capital flight” or “brain drain”.
How you feel influences what you watch, and vice-versa.
We often think only of grown ups taking pills, this study reminds us children can take them too.
Some games are just for fun, others are for thought provoking statements on life, the universe, and everything.
Consider the decline and fall of the South China Morning Post.
Oppression causes many people to run for the hills. Literally.
Going mad with Christmas cheer? Try one of these alternatives.
Most people think human extinction would be bad. These people aren’t philosophers.
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.
Great ideas in philosophy often come in dense packages. Then there is where the work of Marcus Aurelius.
What can America learn from this?
China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.
Phone usage was found to have similar reinforcing tendencies as eating or doing drugs.
A study out of Finland shows us that sex is sex and robots are robots, and the overlap is confusing.
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
One of the most famous experiments in psychology might be completely wrong.
Mercantilism, the oldest thing in economics, is back in a big way.
Schadenfreude is a common feeling, but not all of it is the same.
It’s not just a case of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
A study on flies may hold the key to future addiction treatments.
Sure we know it would be bad, but what do all of these scary numbers really mean?
Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn’t as shocking as you might think.