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In John Maeda’s experience as an artist–turned–President of the Rhode Island School of Design, the ideal leader falls somewhere in between Lao Tzu and Father Knows Best.

Mindfulness therapy is an emerging, non-pharmacological therapy that involves exercising the human brain to improve learning, memory problems, anxiety and problems with depression.

The ego-clashes we tend to excuse among high-achievers are dangerously counterproductive when it comes to advancing human knowledge.

Julia Galef provides a fix for the “the commitment effect,” the condition of sticking with a business plan or a career or a relationship “long after it has become quite […]

It’s very complex as to whether or not we really want to catch a liar. We think we do. What if we find out that both of our presidential candidates […]

Steve Carlotti, CEO of The Cambridge Group, says Apple’s success is due to the company’s ability to uncover latent demand.

We may not yet possess those cool transparent computers they have on CSI, but we live in a science fiction fantasy world of seamless information exchange, one in which even […]

English is the dominant inter-language of the world and it is used and spoken by vastly more people than those who have it as their first or family language. How long will this last?

Does your theory about what may have happened in a situation in some way determine the kind of evidence that you look for and the kind of evidence that you […]

Guy Kawasaki reflects on how he got his foot in the door at Macintosh because of who he knew, not because of his skill set. Nonetheless, this led to a […]

Michio Kaku says this brain-to-brain communication would involve not just the exchange of information, but also the transmission of emotions and feelings, “because these are also part of the fabric […]

Relax, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit. You can’t beat your Facebook addiction into submission – so schedule it into your work day.

While strife is bound to happen between different religious communities, there is no occasion to apologize. Alain de Botton says it’s awkward to apologize, after all. “This could lead to […]

The assistant managing editor of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” rankings offers up 3 tips to women who want to accelerate their careers.

Comedian Margaret Cho shares the story of the best mentor she ever had.

Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells Big Think that Shakespeare inhabited a world in which “it’s much more possible to express homosexual passion and inact that passion without triggering a social […]

Educational historian Diane Ravitch explains why NCLB has failed, and what we can do about it.

The legendary punk rocker offers some advice to today’s youth.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita argues that gerrymandering gives incumbents a wildly unfair advantage.

In Hooked Up, Myers focuses on a subset of Millennials he terms “Internet Pioneers” who are much better connected and much more savvy technologically than any other generation before, and […]

Dr. Kaku answers the question of whether it is possible to resurrect the dinosaurs by “turning on” their ancient genes? Moreover, now that we have also sequenced the genes of […]

In this installment of Penn Jillette’s Atheist’s Guide to the 2012 Election, the Penn and Teller illusionist (and outspoken atheist) sizes up Mitt Romney’s religion.

Don’t have sex just because it’s good for you, says Slavoj Žižek.

What is the Higgs boson? Michio Kaku describes the Higgs boson as a fuse. “It’s a match. It’s the spark that set off the Big Bang. It put the bang […]

According to Mitt Romney’s former Bain Capital colleague Ed Conard, Romney is someone who tended to always take the longview in business.