The Present

None of these steps are quick or easy, but practice and online courses can help.

Recipe for awe: Coat one egg with Starlite. Blast it with a ridiculous amount of heat until charred black. Crack it open.

The countdown continues! This is the #2 most popular video of 2018. Can the left wing grow from this critique?

When Cresswell returned to teaching after a five-year break, she noticed a marked difference in the ways undergraduates approached learning in the classroom.

The Tesla CEO said the Hardware 3 upgrade has “1000 percent more capability” than the current hardware.

Consider the decline and fall of the South China Morning Post.

Following World War I, President Woodrow Wilson nearly died trying to ensure world peace.

The country’s paperless system serves as a model to other nations.

Oppression causes many people to run for the hills. Literally.

Your new year’s resolutions should benefit not just yourself, but the whole planet.

This technology could close the gap between nature and the man-made environment.

Even when they suffer costs in doing so.

The countdown continues! Our 8th most popular video of 2018 cuts through the political fray.

Renowned scientists and technologists who’ve passed away in 2018.

This is the most talked about Big Think video of 2018! What’s your take?

Americans must choose the middle path, away from the fundamentalist positions on both the right and the left, argues a Washington think tank.

The social media company has long been expected to make a move into blockchain.

Why one Italian bank is counting on wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano as collateral.

American society is in trouble if we let fundamental disagreements cancel entire relationships.

Superpowers team up to heat up the ionosphere by over 200 degrees.

A new report shows how legalizing marijuana nationally would likely be much more effective at curbing drug smuggling than building a border wall.

They’re fun, so why not? Well, maybe because they’re often inscrutable.

Most people think human extinction would be bad. These people aren’t philosophers.

Cutting edge social innovators should consider hybrid models

An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.

Sunken nuclear submarines and covert operations against the Soviet Union eventually led to Titanic’s discovery.

It’s safe to say not everyone was immediately impressed.

Looking at the 2011 earthquake in Japan, researchers found that natural disasters make men — but not women — more fond of taking risks.

Moving from HOT to HAT, a dazzling new acoustic technology.

The most powerful editors in the world? Algorithms.