Wherein moral conundrums could determine the fate of millions — and how a psychopath might respond to them. 

In Queer Virtue, gay Episcopal priest Elizabeth M. Edman argues for a new take on this old religion.

Demagoguery, colonizing Mars, and the perpetual pendulum of party politics. Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on the Think Again podcast

Australian researchers have found that fiber can help lessen the reaction to food allergies, and even cure a person of them.  

Nikhil Goyal examines the flawed US school system, bringing to light a lack of democracy, still-legal corporal punishment, and neglect by the media and presidential candidates.

Big Think teams up with Hyper, a new premium video app that curates 10 videos each day, with no buffering or data depletion.

Henry Rollins talks about how fear of winding up starting in The America drove his to his remarkable career.

The massive black holes that formed LIGO’s first event were a surprise, and then a mystery. Here’s the long-awaited solution! “Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a […]

Michio Kaku tells the story of one super-scary mistake in physics and reminds us how hard it is to get science right.

Neil deGrasse Tyson proposed an ideal form of government and caused a viral debate.

Mary Roach, author of Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans in War, talks about ear cuffs, a new military-grade technology that will help soldiers preserve their hearing and minimize deafness and hearing disability among veterans.

The U.K. has voted to leave the European Union, but here are the scenarios in which it stays in.

A new method has been shown effective in halting, even reversing Alzheimer’s in 10 early-stage patients.   

The gun industry is in the business of selling its products. Exploiting our belief system is part of its corporate model.

And the wisdom from an exclusive interview with Larry Niven. Ever since humanity had the thought that the distant, twinkling stars might be Suns like our own, with their own planetary […]

Now that LIGO’s found two pairs of merging black holes, what does the future hold? “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to […]

This week, Bill Nye the Science Guy talks about the chances of winning the lottery, and re-frames the system as a tax on the people who can least afford it.

If you can't break through a wall, you climb over it. Janna Levin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College, points to three genius scientists who embraced limitations.

Rob Bell examines the two responses to our rapidly changing world, covering politics, the internet, tribalism and race relations.

Many of our best U.S presidents qualify as psychopaths, while Hitler doesn’t.