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Many kids are vaccinated at age two, the same age at which autism is often first noticed. But the “evidence” that one causes the other doesn’t wash.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not actually have much support, says Kasparov. He believes a social revolt is inevitable, but what type of regime will fill the vacuum?

While in the West people are fighting to win elections, Russians are fighting to have elections, says the former presidential candidate.

Spaces between words were only invented around 800 or 900 AD, before which reading was a more cognitively intensive act. The advent of eReaders threatens to revive this complexity, says […]

If you want to change your brain, you have to change your habits—but good luck avoiding the Internet in this day and age!

The Internet might actually be diminishing our capacity to form long-term memories.

The map, the mechanical clock and the printing press are all examples of “intellectual technologies” that have reshaped the way humans think. And the ways of thinking that we learned […]

A conversation with the technology writer.

One day we might be able to download our consciousness into a computer chip, preserving our personalities forever—but first we will have to better understand brain architecture.

Kasparov’s archrival excels when he is on the defensive rather than attacking. But ultimately, “the combination of my strengths was superior to the combination of his strengths,” says Kasparov, who […]

Embracing intellectual messiness goes against our instincts and training as educated people, but writers and artists should accept and understand it as crucial to the creative process.

When you look beneath the surface of the everyday, you realize how radically different and unexpected other people’s experiences are from your own.

What the world craves is differentiation—the things that other people could never have imagined on their own.

A conversation with the author.

The economist won the Nobel Prize for his theory of signaling—which can be useful to someone wooing a mate.

Gerald Fischbach: The symptoms of autism are far better understood than its causes; psychiatrists classify the disorder as having two major components: impaired social cognition and a tendency toward narrow […]

“If you live life like there is no tomorrow, actually it doesn’t work because ultimately there is a tomorrow,” says Taibbi.

When Taibbi began covering the U.S. finance industry, he was “continually struck” by how much it resembled the corrupt dynamic in the former Soviet Union.

“I work hard to be honest with my sources, but I don’t go out of my way to make them feel good either,” says Taibbi.

“She is a gifted politician, just in terms of getting people to connect with her on an emotional level in person,” says Taibbi. “It’s something that if you’re an experienced […]

A conversation with the Rolling Stone correspondent.

“There is a reason why you can’t just print money and get yourself out of economic trouble,” says the Rolling Stone correspondent.

I want to send that message to younger people, that it’s okay,” says Karger. “You’re okay, you can be gay, you can even run for President of the United States […]

The Republican Party has been “hijacked” by a few far-right individuals that have abused the gay issue to win elections, says the presidential hopeful.

Homosexual acts are still illegal in many countries. Does this mean a gay president could jeopardize U.S. foreign relations?

Karger, who could be the first openly gay person to run for Commander-in-Chief, thinks the time is right for his prospective candidacy.

A conversation with the political consultant and activist.

A conversation with the Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Just in time for New York’s fashion week, Dan Ariely, the Duke Behavioral Economics professor and author of Predictably Irrational, sent Big Think a video on how fake designer sunglasses […]

The U.S. cannot manufacture goods as economically as other nations because of our taxes and social benefits. As a result, we need to look to the service sector and finance […]