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“We’ve become a less violent species because we recognize the futility and the undesirability of violence.”

Cholesterol, coffee, and alcohol are among the winners in the government’s new dietary advisory report, which is helping to create the nation’s official 2015 dietary guidelines. 

Rugby, like business, is a game of inches. Gaining a competitive advantage requires sharp data analysis and advanced analytics. 

What victims really want from the person who wronged them, according to studies conducted in the US and Europe is a sense of genuine remorse along with a sincere apology.

Giving children a fine-arts education is essential to create the kinds of skills necessary for the modern, creative economy, according to UCLA’s Anderson Forecast School of Management.

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost psychiatrists specializing in PTSD, explains the disorder’s many effects and symptoms.

Without a nuanced understanding of what it means to be authentic, we easily shirk the effort required to fully explore our range of personal and professional potential.

Amit Sood, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic wants to help the general public benefit from recent esoteric advances in neuroscience.

Inspired by the real-life story behind the recent film Unbroken, the John Templeton Foundation has released a video teaching the importance of forgiveness.

Teaching Girls to See Themselves as Leaders, with Tara Sophia Mohr In order to guide young women to achieve their full leadership potential, life coach and author Tara Sophia Mohr […]

After a successful launch of a Dragon spacecraft this morning, SpaceX attempted to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a sea platform but ran out of fuel prior to touchdown.

DIY welding equipment and access to basic lessons are becoming widely available to the layperson. Basic household repairs and projects have never been easier.

One of the planet’s most well-known car cities is gearing for a transportation reboot.

What matters more? Money or privacy? For Kansas City residents that have the option to pay a little more for some internet privacy, most have chosen to remain open to targeted ads.

From “Border Walls” to “Anchor Babies,” the immigration debate heats up every American presidential election. An art instillation challenges the cruelty of much of that rhetoric and questions the very idea of borders.

A San Francisco startup (what else?) is looking to make the home-buying process much simpler, leveraging data to find a fair market price as soon as a house is listed.

Passion is a great motivator but having too much emotion riding on a particular job, promotion, or interview is a sure way to lose the interest of your professional colleagues.

The United States has a long history of using force to defend the property and interests of its citizens. MIT Research Fellow Michael Schrage asks why responses to cyberattacks deviate from that precedent.

After sticking with a healthy regimen, you may think a cheat week might not do any harm after all the good months you’ve racked up. Nope.

Madeline Levine discusses an instance when one overbearing father shared a little too much information. From her Big Think interview on parenting, available here.

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was able to ride a wave confidence to run for Congress through the support of her friends and family. Perhaps to stop underestimating ourselves, we need to find our own confidence boosters — in our lives or online.

When teams of professionals are composed of more women, share ideas in equal part, and are emotionally perceptive, they make better decisions and find better solutions to problems.

Peanut allergies can be severe, but preventing the sensitivity may be as simple as exposing your infant to peanuts while they are young.

“If we’re going to solve the problems that we’re trying to solve – and it’s not just for the Foundation, it’s for all of us, we’ve got to tap into the creativity and the capability and the innovation potential of the private sector.” -Julie Sunderland of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, from her recent Big Think Interview  

The so-called creative class has made it more difficult for the creators of culture—artists and thinkers who depend on leisure time—to produce work that reminds the country of its values, purpose, and potential.

Smartphone software that anticipates what you want to type to a friend, colleague, or spouse, may make you less intentioned in your communication.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof recently visited Big Think to discuss his new book A Path Appears and talk about the tactics advocates must employ to raise awareness for a good cause.

The US Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine, and National Research moved to abandon aggressive geoengineering techniques in a new report.

In today’s featured discussion on pheromones, biologist Edward O. Wilson explains that there are massive amounts of natural stimuli that humans are not physically privy to.

Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management discusses the concept of creative destruction, which explains the phenomenon of automation simultaneously wiping out existing industries while creating new ones in their place.