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You are the architect of your brain, the data suggests.

The Middle Eastern pan-Arab military organization has found its way into the hearts and minds of Westerners searching for a cause.

Why is the pope’s visit to America a big deal? Aside from the sheer number of Catholics in the United States, Pope Francis inspires people the world over with the way he leads the Catholic Church.

But I use that term loosely.

What were the first organisms to have sex? We may never know the answer, but as Bill Nye explains in this Big Think interview, scientists are very interested in why sexual activity remains so popular in nature beyond the obvious reproductive implications.

The trouble with productivity as a value is that it treats a morally ambiguous act as a moral good. What, specifically, do we want to be producing more of?

It’s getting bigger over time, but is there anything it’s displacing, or expanding into? “Mathematicians deal with possible worlds, with an infinite number of logically consistent systems. Observers explore the […]

Science is the best tool we have for predicting the future. Here’s what the next year ought to bring. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s […]

Don’t even think about getting anything other than this one! “No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.” –Quintus Ennius If you are (or you […]

In this Big Think+ preview, IBM’s VP of Marketing & Communications explains why companies shouldn’t fear their employees’ use of social media.

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

PwC’s global talent manager recently visited Big Think to discuss his company’s Aspire to Lead initiative as well as to encourage men to pledge their support for gender equality.

VanDerWaals’ line of app-enabled, color-changing bags could represent the future of tech-driven fashion items.

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

Thanks to Big Think’s favorite experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will have a photographic record of how Tempe, Arizona, in 3015 ended up that way.

Today, anyone who is driven by a dream to solve a problem has the opportunity to change the world. This wasn’t the case in past eras.

Lack of deep personal public concern about climate change limits the politically difficult actions governments are willing to take.

Planet Nine? More like “Planet maybe.” “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.” –Mike Brown Last week, the […]

Dark things come in small packages, but the reason why is what’s truly astounding. “A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.” […]

Climate change doesn’t have the emotional characteristics that make it truly deep-in-your-heart scary. Leaders will have to act anyway.

Where do we learn what matters? Are new forces crowding out the old sources of stories that shape us? 

Your Facebook feed is a virtual echo chamber. It serves the same purpose as Fox News or MSNBC.

Singularity University’s Peter Diamandis discusses one way in which virtual reality — a burgeoning exponential technology — will disrupt unexpected sectors of culture and society.

The similarities between the Universe and a living being are striking and surprising. Could larger entities than us be alive? “Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to […]

PURPOSE: Set Goals, with John Amaechi In this lesson from Big Think+, NBA basketball player John Amaechi shares with you the plan he created as a child to help him […]

Don’t expect the president to be a prolific tweeter, nor for him to offer any glimpses into his personal psyche.

There’s no reason why humanity can’t re-establish its moon presence while also keeping an eye on the red planet.

Emotional training may not stop repeat offenders, but it may help reduce the severity of their aggression.

Optimism, like imagination, is childish in the best sense of the word.

Is everything astonishingly simple, though? Or is this a grandiose claim that falls flat when confronted with the evidence? “My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we […]