For Business
Learning & Development
Develop leaders in your organization with Big Think+ classes
Custom Content
Create premium thought leadership and storytelling with Big Think Creative
Advertising Campaigns
Reach the smartest audience on the Internet with Big Think editorial integrations
Live Events
Bring your people and ideas to life with Big Think Events
Learning & Development
Develop leaders in your organization with Big Think+ classes
Custom Content
Create premium thought leadership and storytelling with Big Think Creative
Advertising Campaigns
Reach the smartest audience on the Internet with Big Think editorial integrations
Live Events
Bring your people and ideas to life with Big Think Events
Search
Latest Articles
The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.
7mins
Ted Fischer talks about how people act financially and how they behave romantically and how those two behaviors are opposed to each other, often needlessly.
1mins
The Vanderbilt anthropologist describes what we look for in a mate.
2mins
As the anthropologist explains, women are hardwired to crave a steady, monogamous relationship, whereas it makes much more evolutionary sense for men to always have a few extra options on […]
1mins
The Vanderbilt anthropologist describes how ultimately chemistry might fade. But when that happens, compromises can keep a relationship going.
5mins
How lovers show affection differs from one culture to another. And even the notion of romantic love itself is not confined to a man and a woman.
5mins
In New Guinea and the Amazon, it is common and culturally acceptable for men to have sex with men.
3mins
Vanderbilt anthropologist Ted Fischer describes the evolutionary reasons for falling in love and how modernity has urged it along.
29mins
A conversation with the anthropology professor at Vanderbilt University.
Still miffed about the 2000 election? Or even the 1992 election? Steven Brams feels your pain—and has developed a system that could prevent similar voter aggravation in the future. As the […]
The French public is in uproar over a poster campaign to discourage young people from smoking which shows teenagers kneeling in front of a man, as if simulating oral sex.
Procrastinating at work on Twitter and Facebook might actually make us more productive and have positive benefits on our work and boost creativity, according to new research.
The number of US fatalities in the Afghanistan war is nearing 1,000, “a grim milestone”, more than eight years after the Taliban was toppled from power.
The Salon’s Laura Miller gives a word to the to wannabe writers - summarising the rules for writing fiction and advice from the point of view of a consumer rather than a fellow scribe.
The fossilised jawbone, teeth and scales of an enormous 10-meter predatory shark, which would have roamed the seas around 89m years ago, have been dug up in Kansas, USA.
Three Google, Inc. executives have been convicted on privacy charges by a Milan court for transmitting a video showing the bullying of a youth with Down’s syndrome.
After winning the unanimous backing of Latin America and the Caribbean in its claim to sovereignty over the Falklands Islands, Argentina is seeking a UN ruling over the row.
Dissent and unrest is rife across Europe as workers and activists from different countries strike and riot in rejection of government plans to cut spending and impose austerity policies.
Amid fears that the new Obama administration will impose tighter strictures on guns, gun rights activists are pushing their State governments to loosen gun laws.
Iran is planning to release “irrefutable evidence” that terrorist ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi was “aided and abetted” by the US government before his arrest, according to Press TV.
Why does sustainable transit seem like such a far-off dream? Ostensibly obstructed by years of costly R&D, unprecedented political and technological breakthrough, and often some sort of sci-fi revolution, the […]