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Self defined not as individual ego, but the whole universe.

Contrary to what we've been told for decades, depression isn't coming from inside our heads. This author and big thinker tells us that it's coming much more from the society we live in.

Is coolness wearing a leather jacket and slicking your hair back? Or is it "a measured rebellion" within established boundaries? One big thinker tells us that being "cool" is sort of like a cult, at least from a sociological standpoint.

 Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]

It's hard to quantify what it means to be good, but this framework takes a stab at breaking down what makes people behave nicely.

Pictures of the secretive and extremely high-powered weapon have appeared on Chinese social media. 

Author, speaker, and public intellectual Richard Dawkins is a first-class debater on subjects as grand and reaching as the very existence (or lack thereof) of a master creator. But he's got a simple yet highly effective technique to win people over to see his point of view. Find out what it is right here.

Americans say we value free speech, but recent surveys suggest we love the ideal more than practice, a division that will harm more than it protects.

Not so much.

Going mad with Christmas cheer? Try one of these alternatives.

Throughout his career, the famous philosopher has been trying to correct people's misconceptions about anarchy. Here's some of his thinking.

Voter turnout in the United States is pretty low compared to other industrialized countries. While the 2016 US presidential election saw a 56% turnout rate, the 2017 general election in […]

In Life After Google, George Gilder writes that we're paying a heavy cost for "free."

Philosophers can be pretty eccentric. Here we list seven of the most out there. Yes, Diogenes is included.

Polls show that more Americans today define socialism as an ideology of "equality" than one espousing government control of the economy.

An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon.

The famed author headed to the pond thanks to Indian philosophy.

In the Communication Styles Matrix, there are four basic styles of communicators: the Director, Expresser, Thinker, and Harmonizer. Typically, people are a combination of at least two communication styles—one “primary” […]

Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.

Terraforming Mars. Beaming your consciousness to Alpha Centauri. It's the end of the world as we know it, and Dr. Kaku feels fine.

How much money does it take to be happy? How much is too much? These philosophers have a lot to say about money and how it relates to the good life.

The Flat Earth community revealed some of its newest theories and breakthroughs at its first convention in Birmingham, England last weekend.

Research shows that the way math is taught in schools and how its conceptualized as a subject is severely impairing American student's ability to learn and understand the material.

We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?

These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.

“Our country doesn’t do many things well, but when it comes to big occasions, no one else comes close,” so claimed an instructor I heard at the gym this week. […]

The Thucydides Trap leads us to believe a U.S.-China war is inevitable. But is a 2,400-year-old school of thought really what the U.S. should base its foreign policy on?

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Friedrich Nietzsche is an influential thinker, but he is not without critics. One of the best of them is British philosopher Bertrand Russell.

Really puts the whole "don't give up until you're dead" thing to shame.