We're having a conference—sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute—at Berry College next Friday and Saturday on POP CULTURE and REAL CULTURE.  All the details can be found here.  YOU are […]

I was touring a tony private school the other day and came home impressed but disquieted.  The teachers and parents were welcoming, genuinely pleasant and unfailingly polite, yet I felt […]

Increased benefit choice brings along with it increased risk. For instance, what if employees choose options like paid time off at the expense of long-term benefits that will be much more valuable to themselves and their families over time?

In his recent post, fellow Big Think blogger Adam Lee blames the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict on competing religious fundamentalisms. The recent renewal of fighting on the Gaza border, he writes,  […]

Participants from various Asian countries recently attended a conference in Bangkok centering on transforming men's beliefs about themselves, including "sexual entitlement" that often leads to violence against women. 

            If you devote the patience necessary to finish this short post, you will end up a better decision maker. But then, as you will discover in the paragraphs below, […]

New Delhi's MedTech Row is home to a growing number of health sector companies, partnerships, and nonprofits that are focusing on how to provide affordable care to the country's poorest citizens.

For those of us who are committed to creating a better world how do we respond to the evil and heinous acts of our violent past? I just got back […]

After several days, the fragile ceasefire in the latest iteration of Israel and Gaza's endless war is still holding. But while the bombs were falling, there was no shortage of […]

An innovative program in La Paz provides one free meal consisting of foods made from traditional ingredients. Malnutrition is down, but obesity is up.

Several case studies suggest that the absence of non-verbal communication cues and a tendency to idealize online relationships can result in symptoms of psychosis.

Despite our growing understanding of how the human brain works, myths persist among the public at large and even among educators who express an interest in neuroscience. 

With their unique prefab approach, a Chinese company has already built a 15-story hotel in 48 hours and a 30-story tower in 15 days. This one -- 220 stories -- is scheduled to be completed by March.

In Ghana, where 96 percent of citizens identify as religious according to a recent poll, a conference held last weekend drew humanists from across West Africa.

Distinctions matter in debate. When we conflate and equate, for example, controversial groups of people that are not the same, it means we are not reacting accurately. For example, just […]

New "deep-learning" software helps computers recognize patterns in large data sets the same way the human brain recognizes patterns in the world. The result has been much better A.I.

The Guardian's Oliver Burkeman explains why new age authors like Deepak Chopra shouldn't be ignored because they are labeled as pseudoscience. Wisdom needn't be scientific, says Burkeman. 

We have a background assumption that we are living in a technologically-accelerating civilization. Peter Thiel has a different view of where we are headed, and he says we need to fight hard to improve our future prospects. 

Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating.