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Driving while tired creates the most likely conditions for a road accident, especially when drivers are on the road between 2am and 5am or received fewer than five hours sleep the night before driving.

The heralded economist and Harvard president emeritus explains why the price of oil is dropping in North America. He also discusses how American energy independence can’t be achieved just by reducing reliance on foreign oil.

Only in America do people trample each other for sales a day after being thankful for what they already have.

At a foundational, psychological level, putting off your responsibilities for what seems like innocent short-term pleasure is a powerful emotional coping mechanism.

A new Spanish law encouraging foreign investment allows entrepreneurs to obtain an extended-stay visa.

Julie Sunderland, the Director of Program Related Investments for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains how the Foundation works to include and incentivize the private sector in order to accomplish its ambitious goals. 

Conversations between mother and daughter contain more emotional content than conversations mothers have with their sons, according to a new study.

Rather than clear arable land for solar power farms, engineers have proposed using the millions of square miles of roadway and parking lots to gather in solar energy.

If we ate fewer calories we would reduce harmful farming and industrial practices, and begin treating animals more ethically. 

When we see the future through rose-tinted lenses, we are less likely to take the action necessary to achieve our goals.

I was misdiagnosed as bipolar largely as a result of the pervading gender bias in ADHD diagnosis, and that is indicative of a really big problem.

Too many top minds have “positive capability” bias. That label usefully contrasts with Keats’ “negative capability,” a poetic idea that applies to many unpoetic experts. It explains why Shakespeare’s psychology is better than much of the modern “scientific” sort. 

Our obsession with optimization has edged out our use for a gut. Instead of relying on instinct, we fall back on data to tell us how to optimize everything from productivity to life.

Arrests were made on both sides this weekend as protesters challenged the racial insensitivity of a traditional Dutch Christmas festival featuring the character “Black Pete”.

The severity of a given climate strongly correlates with the extent to which a god intervenes directly in human affairs and supports a clear moral code.

While our culture praises innovation and invention, we owe our greatest successes—including those of the innovator and inventor—to imitation and outright copying.

The OkCupid co-founder has authored a best-selling book that analyzes user data from social media and dating sites to draw conclusions about modern human behavior.

A recent study out of Russia concludes there are two new sleep types: those who are most productive at the start and end of the day but feel sluggish during the middle hours, and the reverse.

Scientists at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, have demonstrated a nine-week training course that successfully teaches individuals to see letters as certain colors.

Be honest. Nobody’s listening. How happy are you?

IBM’s talented and versatile Watson supercomputer is now about to become your own personal health guru. A new app will harness Watson’s abilities to allow you to obtain health and fitness advice similar to how you get driving directions from Siri.

Google’s team of fashion data scientists recently released a report mapping the hottest clothing searches for the spring.

Researchers have found that when women stop taking oral contraception, their satisfaction with their relationship changes, including how attractive they find their partner. 

The extreme action dance pioneer takes us through the theory behind PopAction and how flying, falling dancers teach audiences about resilience and hope.

Biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the contributions of both Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace to modern computer philosophy.

The Universe contains black holes billions of times as massive as our Sun. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you […]

“Nobody’s going to pay for smart in the future because the smarter the doctor, the smarter the lawyer, the smarter the engineer, the smarter the financier, that’s all going onto software.  So we move up the ladder and we say that what we really value and what will rise to the top is intelligence.  And what is that?  That’s the ability to figure things out that you’ve never learned before.” -Futurist Edie Weiner, from her Big Think interview

Venture for America is a non-profit fellowship program that grooms the next generation of American entrepreneurs by placing them in startup apprenticeships.

While a funny presence of Twitter may make you stand out from the rest of the e-static, eliciting chuckles alone is not going to build the brand loyalty your product needs to thrive. 

A technology startup plans to market a smart phone accessory that will allow you to zap your brain with an electrical current, helping you feel energized or relaxed, depending on your needs.