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From flow to emotional intelligence, these insightful books feature actionable advice you can try out today.

Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.

A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.

The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.

Cognitive systems famously posited by psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) may hold the key to a more productive and focused work environment.

Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.

Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.

Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.

Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.

Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.

Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?

This is a perversion of justice.

Plato’s cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.

When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as “analysis paralysis.” Why? Isn’t choice a good thing?

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.

You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?