The Present

Where is your data now? Follow the money.

Eureka!

Eric Weinstein suggests institutions need individuals who can pass two famous psychological tests.

China’s export growth model hit a wall. So it reinvented itself.

We’re unearthing the next big idea in post-high school education. Is it yours?

Lumina Foundation is partnering with Big Think to unearth the next large-scale, rapid innovation in post-high school education. Enter the competition here!

The person whose phone was affected would have been given no indication that others were eavesdropping.

How did psychedelics and computers converge?

Algorithms and propagandists exploit the human instinct to connect to play us.

Gender differences arise only in negotiations between a man and a woman where the woman is in the weak position, but not when the woman is the empowered party.

The massive number of casualties and injuries created during these battles necessitated some quick, creative ideas… some of which we still have today.

Stephen Curry’s yearly salary is a cool $34 million. Where did all this money come from?

There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.

A growing middle-class is set to drive the sharing economy in the near future.

Hollywood’s notions of future wars may be nothing like the real ones.

Philosophers and practical ethicists might gain something from considering the Overton window of political possibilities.

Protestantism is good for some people and bad for others. At least that is the conclusion if we are to judge by the stark matters of life, or death, and […]

Dear millennials. Ask for a raise. Every single year.

“It is unthinkable in this day and time that the law requires a sex-change operation to change gender.”

There is no one answer. But there are 10.

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

“Slight,” applied to large populations, could still mean thousands of more boys.

What is socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is it just capitalism?

Despite incredible economic growth, it is not necessarily an investor’s paradise.

A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends’ past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.

The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”

In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.

Rwanda is pioneering the regulation and use of drones – such as delivering blood

The legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led Soviet secret police in the “Red Terror,” still confounds Russia.