Everyone wants to predict who will win the 2020 presidential election. Here are 2 misconceptions to bust so people don’t proclaim the death of data like they did in 2016.
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Let noted cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker introduce you to psychology.
Maria Konnikova, best-selling author and former Big Think columnist, will be speaking with poker legend Erik Seidel and Big Think president Peter Hopkins at a New York City event on August 1.
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
For Idris Elba’s directorial debut YARDIE, actor Aml Ameen (Sense8, Kidulthood) went back to his family’s Jamaican roots, learning patois and sound clash chat—using method acting to become “D” – a lost soul on a quest for revenge. The process changed him forever.
Sophists used rhetoric and debate to arrive at practical truths.
Parenting could be a distraction from what mattered most to him: his writing.
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
Pandemic-inspired housing innovation will collide with techno-acceleration.
Disagreements are inevitable — we all have different experiences that lead us to be who we are and to what we believe. Almost as inevitable are distrust, suspicion, and even […]
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as […]
Here’s why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
The multifaceted cerebellum is large — it’s just tightly folded.
Big Think expert Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, issued a statement responding to a scientist’s recent claim that he helped create the world’s first genetically edited babies.
Young people could even end up less anxiety-ridden, thanks to newfound confidence
The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A “heat death” is coming, but it’s not what you think.
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The statistics for American adults aren’t that much better.
That question is at the heart of the new documentary, “Medicating Normal.”
As Chief Learning Officer at Degreed and former Chief Learning Officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer has thought a lot about architecting effective learning environments for employees seeking to grow their […]
Cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand says that our attitudes toward rules have a lot to do with who we are and with the type of environment we find most comfortable. She’s […]
Scientists may have seen a way to cure a maddening symptom of hearing loss.
American homes are big and polluting. Here’s how to fix that.
From ultra-realistic graphics to more intelligent A.I. characters, the 2020s will bring some mind-bending video games.
They said the “missing half” of the Universe’s matter was just found. But what they found barely makes a dent to the big picture. When we look up into the great […]
A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.
The virus is unlike anything many people have ever experienced.
Johann Hari knows that mental health is really a social issue.
The confidence and respect that successful executives enjoy isn’t simply conferred upon them by their job title. It’s the knowledgeability they project, the manner in which they conduct themselves, and […]
Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.