Will nanobots someday deposit Shakespeare directly into our brains? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, we're joined Buddhist-influenced psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein

Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki chats about testing out her current hypothesis.

Dr. Michael Lindsey of NYU's Silver School of Social Work shares his views on the state of mental health within the African-American community.

A new study says critical thinking is a teachable skill, but who is going to teach it?

There’s no such thing as absolute time, but after 13.8 billion years, is anything relatively different? “The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since […]

Research has shown that drugs dogs routinely act based on the behavioral cues of their handlers, rather than acting on their sense of smell, raising important questions about the Fourth Amendment rights of anyone subject to search based on their actions.

Late night has become uninteresting and often unfunny, but all of that may change with the help of Stephen Colbert.

Hayek viewed markets as distributed-intelligence systems that evolved to compute resource allocations. We can now update that view with ideas from computer science, biological signalling, and evolution.

Couldn't we just get all the nutrients we need from food?

The fantasies, institutions, and humans at Dismaland do not merely sometimes fail us — they are marked for death from the start.

In the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, surprised many with a performance that seemed to rescue the concept of “compassionate conservatism” from […]

Every time there’s a new technology, criminals immediately take advantage of it, explains Steven Kotler. It's only a matter of time before they find new, nefarious uses for 3D printing and synthetic biology.

An influx of humans into any environment can mean trouble for the local animal population.

Our observable Universe is finite, and so is the amount of information in it. Here’s what we may never know. “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really […]

For art history, August 21 and 22 are the dates that will live in infamy. In some strange nexus of negative karma stretching over nearly a century, three of the greatest art heists of all time took place on these dates.

There's a very curious link between topography and personality.

Geoffrey Kent is a pioneer of the photographic safari. His motto: Shoot with a camera, not a gun. After all, we can't afford to keep killing endangered animals.

Disagreement helps prevent a company from becoming stale and succumbing to groupthink.

Gene Roddenberry would have celebrated his 95th birthday today. Many of his ideas have become reality, but some never will. “‘Star Trek’ says that it has not all happened, it […]

The hurdles in life presented by traumatic experiences, if treated properly, represent opportunities for momentous personal growth.