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In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
The actor learned control, endurance, and focus on-set. Those lessons became the foundation of his real-world fight with addiction and self-hatred.
Getting drunk might be bad for you but good for us.
Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.
In "Human History on Drugs," Sam Kelly explores what the research can tell us about one of history’s most brilliant — and troubled — artists.
Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?
Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
Big Think spoke with author and psychiatrist Elias Dakwar about addiction, rock bottom, and the moment you realize your compass is broken.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
Could studying the Oriental hornet lead to a treatment for people with alcohol use disorder?
The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
The hangover "cures" on the market don't work. A new hydrogel does.
GLP-1 agonists may be able to treat addiction, prevent Alzheimer’s, and more.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
"They decreased their drinking to the point that it was so low we didn’t record a blood-alcohol level."
Can targeted interventions save Americans?
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
John Templeton Foundation
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
The strange case of cultured ultra-thief Stéphane Breitwieser — who claims “art is my drug” — has divided opinion. Is it Stendhal syndrome?
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.