humanity

Here’s a simple method for finding out whether those shouts are good-natured or not.

Considering strands of liberalism and how each determines right from wrong.

Understanding society as an ever-changing archipelago, rather than as a fixed, closed structure.

Establishing cultural rights to protect diverse groups may not be the answer.

When you simplify history, you obliterate the truth, says Ethan Hawke.

Can our bodies tell the difference between recorded violence and real life danger?

What is the hive mind? Turns out there are antisocial and prosocial dimensions to it.

Continuing the countdown, Big Think’s seventh most popular video of 2019 explains why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.

Our most talked-about video of 2019 features a lesson in nonsensical thinking from none other than Michio Kaku.

Hierarchies of taste exist in our society, but their roots often reflect more than just the quality of work.

As much as we say it’s not about the clothes, it’s still about the clothes.

Paying a fee for greenhouse gas emissions may spur a revolution, in terms of corporate behavior, amid the climate crisis.

Our personal choices can help to effectively combat poverty, says Peter Singer.

A new study finds that societies use the same acoustic features for the same types of songs, suggesting universal cognitive mechanisms underpinning world music.

There is greater social distance between Americans than ever before.

Is anything clear in the age of disinformation?

Even if automation makes human trafficking economically inefficient, that alone won’t end this unethical practice.

When it comes to job security in the future, instead of acting “professional” you may want to act more human.

Mother Nature and the laws of physics have a death warrant out for humanity, says Michio Kaku. Can we escape it?

We tend to promote foreigners by broadcasting their economic and scholarly value, instead of their intrinsic humanity.

Historian Maragaret O’Mara explains why a tech utopia was, and still might be, a pipe dream.

Someday we’ll beam to the moon for afternoon tea, and be back in New York for dinner.

Grief is real. Give it time.

For eons, belonging to a tribe was essential for survival. But today?

The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.

Here are just two of the practical and philosophical crises surrounding biodiversity breakdown.

From religious wars to French poison conspiracies to the counterculture, we look at the origins of Satanism.

New research suggests that a healthy supply of locally-sourced beer helped maintain the unity of the widespread Wari civilization for about 500 years.

300 years of industrialization have boosted our IQ scores in one very specific way.

Humans are hardwired to believe in nonsense, says Michio Kaku. So what can we do about it?