Why take a picture of something you can just as easily Google?

NASA’s Dawn Mission has finally photographed the full world at full resolution. Come see it! “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If […]

Words of wisdom from Simone de Beauvoir: "The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving."

Words of Wisdom from Cuban national hero José Martí: "Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think, and to speak without hypocrisy. … A man who obeys a bad government is not an honest man."

Words of wisdom from FDR: "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

At 104 years old, Grace Brett’s “yarn-bombing” of numerous towns in Scotland is a sight the whole world should see. “Some people become vandals because they want to make the […]

Finding direct links between Buddhism and Western philosophy is a difficult task, but they do play out in strange loops.

Over 700 pilgrims were killed by a stampede en route to Mecca. Why do some choose to celebrate such tragedies? 

Even though we can get better, faster, cheaper products elsewhere, the market always goes with Apple.

The trick to producing water for astronauts is to figure out how best to extract it from the soil and atmosphere.

Before he “jumped ship to the useless, unemployable arts", young Salman wanted to be a physicist. This and more on Big Think's weekly podcast, Think Again. 

There were two periods of exponential expansion in the Universe: one today and one long ago. Are they related? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. […]

Dr. James Fallon of UC Irvine explains what a psychopath is, how they work, and what they want from you — and he ought to know (but you'll have to watch to find out why).

Their hyper-repetitive patterns mean video games vastly outgun older emotech… like movies, or novels. Some emotech helps you be more human. Some reduces your "humanity." We shape our emotech, and then it shape us.

Learn how to make up for lazy shortcuts made by your brain as well as how to guide other people around their first impressions of you.

Despite its many weaknesses, the U.N. has been successful in one of its main pursuits: linking the countries of the world in a way that promotes peace. Could a similar model work for religion?

The first step is recognition. 

A senior engineer at Google shines a light on the dystopian possibilities of the online world that we all inhabit.

Researchers transfer quantum data over 100 km of optical fiber.

The "poet laureate of hip-hop" is troubled by society's rising reverence for ignorance and prestige. This is a stark departure from pop culture and music from the past, which laid more focus on rooting for the underdog and questioning authority.