For all the talk about how taxes are too high in the United States, American businesses are paying less now than they used to. In fact, many major corporations don’t […]

Why use boring old bread to make your sandwich, when instead you can plop your bacon, cheese and sauce between two slices of deep-fried meat? It sounds like a sitcom […]

Is the financial crisis the best thing that ever happened to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer? As Jan Hoffman writes in the New York Times today, two years after he resigned in scandal the Sheriff of Wall Street is back on his horse and charging again toward Wall Street reform. Will this focus on reform help the public forget about his fling with high-end call-girl Ashley Dupré?

What is it about certain Big Think videos that strike a chord? A glance through our 10 Most Popular Videos of the First 100 Days of 2010 shows a wide […]

The author says he wishes people would just take more responsibility for their own food consumption and cook food at home more often.

"Biologically, oysters are not in the plant kingdom, but when it comes to ethical eating, they are almost indistinguishable from plants," writes Christopher Cox.

Vice President Joe Biden writes that the country's new nuclear stance "leaves Cold War thinking behind" and recognizes that nuclear terrorism and proliferation are the biggest dangers to global security.

"Otto Dix is a difficult artist to like," writes Judith Dobrzynski of the Weimar artist known for his harsh, cruel depictions of social and moral decay. "But admiration is a different thing altogether."

Economic prognosticators are increasingly looking for indicators in unconventional urban data. The newest offbeat predictors are finding information in obscure places — but can they be trusted in forecasts?

“Non-paternity” (when a child turns out to have a different father than they thought they did) is estimated to be somewhere around 10%. New over-the-counter tests make it easy to find out the truth.

Eli Kintisch suggests scientists may have to attempt some radical fixes to address the shift in global temperature. Should we build an umbrella in space? Reflective panels covering the polar ice?

A new technology called "Skinput" uses bio-acoustic sensors to allow people to use the skin on their fingers and forearms — or any part of their bodies — as touchpads to control mobile devices.

It can be shocking to hear stories about female terrorists like the Russian "black widows" and America's "Jihad Jane" — particularly because women so rarely turn to violence.

"Those who think of themselves as great fans of progress, of technology's inexorable march forward, will change their tune as soon as progress destroys something they care deeply about," writes Nicholas Carr.

Extensive research over the past 40 years shows that sleep deprivation is a quick, inexpensive and effective treatment for depression. So why isn't this fact more well known?

Tuesday’s court ruling, which found that the Federal Communications Commission does not have jurisdiction over how internet providers regulate their service, has sent the FCC’s national broadband plan back to […]

The director of the census bureau in charge of marine species, called the Global Marine Species Assessment, has issued a warning about the deterioration of earth’s coral reefs. It was […]

The author stays up trying to figuring out where to position her writing desk, and solves many of her fictional questions in her sleep.

Another problem with the U.S. healthcare system: dying shouldn’t be thought of as a war.

The bestselling author learned a lesson when she based characters in a novel on members of her family.