A ten year study of Ugandan chimps has documented violent territory struggles between rival camps, but what impresses researchers is the cooperation needed to carry out the attacks.

The New York Times cover story on John Updike’s archives reveals a writer who took care to develop and preserve his literary legacy. While an instinct for careful self-preservation is […]

Justin Frankel, the software developer behind Winamp and Gnutella, stopped by Big Think today for an interview. In advance of the interview, we solicited questions on Reddit, and one of […]

Nobel-Prize winning physicist William Phillips admits that “laser cooling” is a somewhat confusing concept. How can light energy, generally thought of as a source of heat, be used to cool […]

As quality information becomes more easily accessible to young people, the curious are going to become “hyper-educated” says Jesse Schell, professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center and CEO […]

Everyone loves labels. Italian Renaissance, French Baroque, Classical Greek—such little conveniences help us understand and comprehend the often tangled and messy reality of artists and art movements, which, like any […]

Technological solutions may help increase some of the limits of memory, but we should also simply be aware that our intuitions might be wrong.

The psychologist demonstrates the “lowest technology” form of memory test.

We are more likely to believe the veracity of intense “flash-bulb memories”—yet these are just as likely as normal memories to be distorted over time.

We are seduced by the forecasters who seem the most confident. When we follow their advice, we often believe we’re making better decisions than we are.

There’s a whole category of intuitions that are systematically wrong in very dangerous ways—those we have about how our own minds work.

The psychologist’s “invisible gorilla” experiment demonstrates how we often miss major details when we’re concentrating on something else.

A conversation with the Assistant Professor of Psychology at Union College.

"The filibuster has been perverted to derail proposals that some members simply don't like. The Senate should ban it," says the L.A. Times. The legislative tool isn't what it used to be.

The New Yorker reviews Peter Beinart's new book on American foreign policy and finds a tale of American leaders coping with the effects of unprecedented mistakes following the rise of the U.S.

"Penny-pinching at a time like this isn’t just cruel; it endangers the nation’s future," says Paul Krugman, who laments the government's plans to reign in current spending to pay back the budget deficit.

Two fathers at True/Slant reflect on the sports culture that pushes kids to succeed at sports against better parenting judgement. "Benign neglect" is perhaps a better method, they say.

The question of how single celled organisms evolved into more dynamic multicellular ones is difficult to answer, but scientists in Tennessee believe genetic on/off switches provide a clue.

Due to the country's one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys, "The Chinese Academy of Social Science estimates that by 2020, 24 million Chinese men will be unable to find a wife."

"NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a whopping 706 candidate planets beyond the solar system," says Science News. The find nearly doubles the amount of known planets outside our solar system.