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Examples of military leadership in Iraq show us the limitations of leadership that stomps out dissent.

Robert Pinsky takes his poem “The City” and transforms it into a Tweet.

Robert Pinsky reads his recently published poem, The City.

Human beings are very deeply motivated by four primary drives: to acquire, to bond, to create meaning and defend. One of the organizations that does a great job of balancing […]

Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, which offers free online lessons on a wide range of subjects. One of the key factors that has made Khan Academy […]

Big Think reader Liam Stein asks Dr. Michio Kaku the question “How will the world look post-singularity? Can you walk us through a day in the life of a transhuman?”

Researchers at Purdue University created a high-resolution, interactive map that shows where U.S. carbon emissions originate. The highest amounts don’t necessarily come from the places you’d expect. The southeastern states, […]

if you’re stuck in a bad marriage with bad behavior, then do things, certain habits that you do every day that you would never do otherwise.

If we took a much more supple view of how the world actually works, we wouldn’t spend all our time trying to break everything apart to study the details.

Joshua King had a great game plan: make a list of the companies he wanted to work for, research them, and network with as many people as possible. He ended […]

Many people possess an over-confidence in their own moral capacity. Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School, argues this overconfidence is what so often gets people in trouble.

Every week Dr. Kaku answers a question from our readers. This week Bruce Vang asks “Are we ever going to develop a machine that can control the weather somewhat?”

Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, argues the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.

The technological utopia known as the Singularity–when mankind merges with machines–will not bring immortality, says the philosopher John Gray.

Salman Khan envisions the school of the future, where mastery and empathy are the core values, and the curriculum is driven by self-paced learning.

Oscar-winning filmmaker James Marsh discusses the moments of inspiration behind his films and emphasizes the importance of trusting your instincts.

The idea that punishment teaches a kid not to misbehave is a myth, pure and simple. Here are three steps for actually changing your kid’s unpleasant behavior.

Some have proposed using quantum entanglement (the invisible umbilical cord that exists between objects) as a form of telepathy. But there are much more practical ways of achieving telepathy that […]

People engaged in social and political reform (and sometimes revolution) have to think through what the next step is. It’s not enough to just say no to a bad guy.

Americans have an inferiority complex when it comes to many things British, from the royal family to Shakespeare. But not Christopher Walken.

Entrepreneurship, like theater, requires a suspension of disbelief, says Hollywood star Jeffrey Wright. Here he explains how his training on the stage prepared him to found a mineral company and […]

Virtualization is the hottest new technotrend, with everything from commerce and supply chain management to storage and processing power migrating into the cloud and into virtual realities.

In the 1999 film “The Matrix,” characters could simply learn a new set of skills by uploading a program into their brains. When (if ever) will we be able to […]

At what point does a robot become so lifelike that it becomes a human? And vice-versa, at what point does a human with robotic enhancements no longer become a human?

Is the new Silk Road–the flow of oil and gas from the Middle East to Asia, and Asian goods flowing to the Persian Gulf–a new foundation for the world economy […]