A conversation with the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The United States’ Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act takes effect on Saturday. Subsequently, it will be illegal for employers to use genetic test results to make decisions about their employees, or […]

“Stitches” is only the second graphic novel ever to be nominated for a National Book Award. The author discusses what the honor meant to him and why his dark memoir […]

Later this evening, the literary community finds out whether David Small’s “Stitches” will be the first graphic novel ever to win a National Book Award. This morning, Big Think asked […]

Big Think conducted a special interview today with George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente. As the world’s largest nonprofit health plan and hospital system, Kaiser Permanente is a micro-healthcare system unto […]

The world is on course for a “catastrophic” 6 degrees centigrade rise in temperature, meaning that the worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true.

A letter written by former US president Abraham Lincoln to a schoolboy around 150 years ago is to go on sale.

A businessman has pleaded guilty to setting fire to $200m worth of vintage wines in what is believed to be an attempt to cover up a pyramid scheme.

Privacy concerns have been raised after a leading genetics company pioneering personal DNA testing went bankrupt yesterday.

Senate leader Harry Reid is planning to include a public option so that states can opt out of his version of the healthcare reform bill. But what else could this volatile debate trigger?

Young children who are insensitive to fear are more likely to go on to commit crimes, according to psychologists.

Conjoined twin girls joined at the head have been successfully separated after 29 hours of surgery.

Something big lies beyond the visible edge of our universe, according to the largest analysis to date of galaxy clusters.

According to a new study, a now-extinct breed of miniature goats had bones that resemble a crocodile’s.

An Australian senator has accused the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organization and has called for its investigation by the police.

The Obama administration is finally getting serious about closing Guantanamo. The main obstacle to closing the military prison has always been that it wasn’t clear where to put the approximately […]

For all of us, coping with the death of a loved one is intensely traumatic. For sufferers of “complicated” grief, however, the trauma itself never seems to die; rather than dissipating over time, it becomes a […]

Expectations for the Copenhagen summit next month are dropping like a cartoon anvil. Where once there was talk of a comprehensive international accord on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, now the great […]

Stewart Brand’s latest book, “Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto,” contains a dagger in its subtitle. To write a manifesto on behalf of “ecopragmatism” is to imply that the current […]

A variety of English media reported today that the Times of London will begin charging its customers for 24-hour access to the Times’ website by spring. The Times, roughly the […]