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Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.

Surprisingly, this study was not funded by HBO, Netflix, Hulu or the Illuminati. 

So how would you like your prescription? A dragon? Tiger? Something tribal maybe?   

I trail run early in the morning, in part, to avoid people. Los Angeles might be vast, but spacious it is not. By 6:30 am I’m running up one side […]

Studies suggest that giving elementary students homework does more harm than good.

Are robots and AI really ready for us to begin depending on them?

If free will doesn’t exist, is it healthier to believe it does? 

On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think Podcast, Ethan Hawke and host Jason Gots discuss fatherhood, perpetual warfare, and the daily struggle between light and dark within every person.

When we acknowledge and formally recognize death in our culture, it is fundamentally a different way of dealing with it than what we usually do.

Despite recent bad press, Tesla’s autopilot likely saved the life of a man who experienced a severe medical condition while driving. He asked his car to drive him to the nearest hospital.

Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.

Researchers like Dr. Nadine Burke Harris have recognized the negative impacts that adverse childhood experiences can have on health. But now we understand more about the resiliency factors as well.

Humans like to believe evolution implies progress. As Stephen Jay Gould notes, Darwin warned of this misunderstanding. We may be better at adapting to our present, regrettable circumstances.

Tesla announced it’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was involved in its first deadly crash on May 7, 2016. This marks the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. However, this tragedy should not hinder progress.

A first study of its kind finds that psilocybin-containing “magic” mushrooms can be effective in treating depression.

A record number of American convicts were exonerated in 2015. Most of them were minorities, many mentally handicapped. A new report presents data that suggests there are hundreds (potentially thousands) of other innocent people behind bars in the United States.

Since the dawn of automation, robots have been taking human jobs. But a short period of unemployment has always been followed by new kinds of jobs to offset this loss. This scenario may not be the case in the future.

It seems very odd now, but one of the greatest thinkers ever, believed that we could rely on the love of math and its beauty to make us better people. Here’s why Plato thought so…

The self-driving car is the future of personal transportation. Wireless charging is the future of battery-powered devices. Marrying the two technologies makes sense.

A recent study shows that non-believers are more tolerant of Islam than Christians and other groups.

Want to Help Defuse ISIS’ Propaganda? See How It Works from the Inside. The recent attacks in Paris shine a light on the world’s current biggest boogeyman: ISIS. “Boogeyman” is […]

Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus is a refreshingly practical progressive how-to amid the rhetorical excesses of this election year. 

Ontological design is way cool.

All text involves translation. Either from reality or imagination into language, or between languages. Can the language that perfectly fit physics translate every pattern under the sun? Well, nothing in physics chooses…

We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.

Away from the dinner table.

The author and activist explores the well-intentioned, yet harmful way members of the left prioritize tolerance over reform within Islam.

There’s a strange beauty, yes, but also a violence to Degas’ technique. Where did that violence come from?

It was a dark and stormy night when a car accident was prevented by very cool technology.

Big Think’s Jason Gots reviews Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel City on Fire.