It's not a surprise that making the most out of your college investment means choosing an optimal field of study. What may be surprising is that smoe seemingly successful majors don't actually pay that well.

Most of us have been advised at one time or another to choose our battles.  We know it’s good advice, yet rarely stop and think about the criteria for passing […]

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind.

How the Cosmic Microwave Background — the Big Bang’s leftover radiation glow — continues to shed light on the birth of our Universe. Image credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration. The announcement of the […]

Needing to sneak into a packed venue for a 1963 concert, the Beatles got in with a little help from their friends: the Birmingham City Police.

Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.

The stress-reductive benefits of meditation are trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.

Ayn Rand fell for the popular misconception of the ancient myth

Only very rarely are artists able to pay their bills through their craft. But that doesn't mean they're only relegated to boring desk jobs. In fact, many are able to use their skills to earn a living.

A well-planned international move can help you get the most out of your Social Security benefits and other savings. Just be prepared to give up some typical comforts.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, speaking yesterday at an urban solutions summit, shared visions of various tech transit projects he'd like to see instituted in his city before 2020.

After previously discussing surveillance and autonomous cars, Singularity University's Brad Templeton returns to Big Think to examine some lighter fare: quantum mechanics and computing.

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously."

"You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized."

A massive occupy movement has shut down commerce in Hong Kong's Central business district as pro-democracy advocates protest for universal suffrage.

Companies are spending billions on digital and much of it is wasted because they’re actually missing three big things in terms of how they’re approaching it. One is they really don’t […]

Sometimes to be able to make a good decision about digital marketing, it helps to see where other companies err.

How can companies cope with digital disruption?

If you haven't gotten a single call from a prospective employer, it's possible your résumé is rubbing hiring managers the wrong way. 

Brad Templeton discusses the vast computational power that a quantum computer could have, provided that someone were to build one.