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
New techniques in cryogenics may fundamentally affect the identity of the revived.
It perpetuates a vicious cycle of physical pain and psychological anguish.
The periodic table offers up so many possibilities, but some things are off-limits in our Solar System. “There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.” […]
Many people are turning to Pilates over pews in new American gathering spaces, writes Jason Kelly.
Irish scientists make an unexpected discovery about light by devising a new experiment.
Closing in on 35 years since HIV was first discovered, medical science is now starting to see the possibility of a day when HIV will be curable. In fact, new research has developed several possible strategies which could eliminate the virus from the body. But challenges remain.
Already-created neural pathways make it hard to correct our mistakes going forward.
A first study of its kind finds that psilocybin-containing "magic" mushrooms can be effective in treating depression.
The solution might not be easy, but researchers have identified strategies that help all children thrive in the classroom.
Children who grow up in cities have higher rates of psychosis than others. Researchers find that social cohesion and crime rates are important to these differences.
Our best "Big Picture" of the universe might be Sean Carroll's “poetic naturalism.” But his skillfully framed physics and philosophy synthesis needs more “moral geometry” and a “naturalistic fallacy” update.
Could finding a planet capable of supporting humans already be within our reach? “The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so vast and the treasures hidden in the heavens so […]
Float tanks are increasing in popularity due to their role in stress reduction and even altered states of consciousness.
Ultra-deep field? Move over; there’s a new deepest-view of all! “In other words, theory attempts to segregate the minimum number of possible worlds which must include the actual world we inhabit. […]
The Urban Confessional project offers free listening to anyone who has no one to talk to.
Humor — more specifically, humor done standing up in front of an audience — is something that humans can claim all to their own.
A recent study out of Australia has crunched data over a 29-year timespan and found no correlation between cellphone usage and brain cancer. Hooray!
If black holes suck everything in and nothing can get out, what does that mean for dark matter? “A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another […]
Robots have reached the field of law in an age where jobs are disappearing to technology advances every year.
Shell has had an oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. We can compare it to BP, but the magnitude is much different. Cleanup strategies could be different too.