Personal Growth

Always wanted the Zen, but without the meditation? Maybe drawing is your path to mindfulness.

These days it’s hard to believe there is still moral beauty in the world. This is why we still want to believe, and where we can start looking.

Richard Feynman’s method for understanding science can also be used for detecting pseudoscience.

Scalia was sitting right next to Clarence Thomas, the sole African-American justice, when he made these startling comments.

How likely we are to bounce back from a setback is not predetermined. Here’s why, and what you can do to cultivate your inner fighter.

Kill stress and gain perspective by way of creative expression.

The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven’t accepted Jesus. 

The pop-a-pill solution is a non-solution. But what is the alternative? 

Women are being told that competing with one another isn’t very lady-like. Nature begs to differ.

Reading is dangerous, but there’s no harm in preparing students for the challenge.

Role for insight.

Should you check yourself before you bedeck yourself?

Skeptic Michael Shermer presents ten major arguments for the existence of God — and counters each one.

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.

Prosperity preachers like Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen are only the latest incarnations of a long lineage of American hucksters.

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

Test your legal acumen. Pencils ready!

The pursuit of transcendent experiences will become a connoisseur art when we’re all unemployed.

Innovation isn’t always the result of invention and discovery. Sometimes the best way to innovate is to rethink something old.

The Argentine leader is expected to discuss gay marriage and abortion while in Philadelphia, but will he confront the systemic abuses plaguing his Church? 

Public shaming can be powerful medicine. But used in the wrong context it can kill.

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. 

Carter said he was “surprisingly at ease” when he received his diagnosis. Perhaps part of that serenity comes from the knowledge of the good works he has done in his life.

Will nanobots someday deposit Shakespeare directly into our brains? In this week’s episode of Big Think’s Think Again podcast, we’re joined Buddhist-influenced psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein

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

In Inside Out, this summer’s fantastic Pixar film about the fraught emotional landscape of childhood, a girl named Riley gets hauled away from her idyllic life in Minnesota to a […]

College campuses have become a breeding ground of intolerance and shame — vigilant liberalism is destroying free speech. 

Running to music that is in sync with your pace can make you run faster, for longer, and now, there’s an app for that.

Recent trends in the tech sector suggest the liberal arts degree is making a major comeback.

There is no sense whatsoever that we are on the same page here, working toward some roughly agreed upon vision of a better future.