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For Idris Elba’s directorial debut YARDIE, actor Aml Ameen (Sense8, Kidulthood) went back to his family’s Jamaican roots, learning patois and sound clash chat—using method acting to become “D” – a lost soul on a quest for revenge. The process changed him forever.

Someday, presumably, we’ll go back to our lives. Our furry buddies will wonder where we went.

The statistics for American adults aren’t that much better.

Johann Hari knows that mental health is really a social issue.

Scientists may have seen a way to cure a maddening symptom of hearing loss.

Across the land, state-driven pacts, partnerships, councils and task forces replace a coordinated federal response.

From ultra-realistic graphics to more intelligent A.I. characters, the 2020s will bring some mind-bending video games.

The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A “heat death” is coming, but it’s not what you think.

A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.

Maria Konnikova, best-selling author and former Big Think columnist, will be speaking with poker legend Erik Seidel and Big Think president Peter Hopkins at a New York City event on August 1.

 Cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand says that our attitudes toward rules have a lot to do with who we are and with the type of environment we find most comfortable. She’s […]

Big Think expert Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, issued a statement responding to a scientist’s recent claim that he helped create the world’s first genetically edited babies.

 As Chief Learning Officer at Degreed and former Chief Learning Officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer has thought a lot about architecting effective learning environments for employees seeking to grow their […]

Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).

A comprehensive interdisciplinary paper removes any doubt that orcas don’t belong in marine parks and zoos.

There are three answers depending on what you consider the “edge,” but only two of them are known. If you were to go as far out into space as you can […]

A new study lays out a green (very green), data-driven plan to capture much of our atmosphere’s carbon pool.

 The confidence and respect that successful executives enjoy isn’t simply conferred upon them by their job title. It’s the knowledgeability they project, the manner in which they conduct themselves, and […]

The FBI has been called to investigate it.

It’s probably always been the case that each generation’s creations and preoccupations shape the next generation in unexpected ways, producing young adults who seem nearly incomprehensible to their elders, especially […]

No matter how accurately you place two Plinko chips, you cannot count on the same outcome twice. Of all the pricing games on the iconic television show The Price Is Right, […]

The new podcast is a deep dive into human nature.

New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.

Hackers are demanding a bitcoin ransom.

It turns out big ideas don’t always fit in sign-sized slogans.

The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world’s “open medical intelligence” system.

New experiments look to the interplay between neutrons and magnetic fields to observe our universal reflection.

An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.

 Should you find yourself speaking to a group of people and not connecting, you’re stuck in a situation that seemingly benefits no one. For some people it seems to come […]

 March is Women’s History Month, and Big Think+ is commemorating it with a collection of videos highlighting both women’s history, and the complicated choices facing women who are making history […]