Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
An Italian firm has put forward an idea for a green city that would be completely self-sustaining, modern, and green.
In a metaphor too apt to be made up, the council has been forced to relocate until the flood waters recede.
A variety of structures exist to both treat employees with more respect and increase productivity.
After living through a terrible epidemic, two inventors have created a self-cleaning door handle.
It’s telling about attempts to save the industry.
Just for giggles, would it be a good idea to have our leaders take shrooms?
The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.
In hopes of saving their countries, many small nations are making big promises on cutting emissions.
As it turns out, hacking an election isn’t as hard as you’d think.
America’s racial wealth disparity is entrenched, with devastating effects. What if we got rid of it?
With little progress on other avenues to preventing mass shootings, one firm has employed architecture to save students.
How can Innovation Central not manage to solve its own sprawling homelessness?
Can treating addiction as a disease work better than treating it as a vice?
Existential dread, meet astronomical wonder.
We often discuss what the minimum wage does to the economy, but rarely do we discuss what it does to people.
Zizek is on the left and dislikes political correctness. How does that work out?
Atheism doesn’t offer much beyond non-belief, can secular humanism fill the gaps?
Her plan to abolish most student debt has been put before Congress. But does it have any chance of passing?
We know he is on the left, but why? And how left is left anyhow?
A new survey suggests that free money isn’t as popular as you’d suppose.
The fine Facebook just paid was huge, but many in tech say it wasn’t nearly enough to protect your data.
He goes on and on about ideology, but what does it mean?
There are many reasons the student debt crisis is what it is, a few of them can be traced back to good ol’ Uncle Joe.
One report claims the trade is better pay for fewer jobs over all. Other reports disagree.
The cartoon heard ’round the world and what happened after.
Will the small petrol state soon be solar powered?
A new study has bad news for those who binge watch TV.
Lots of newspapers endorse candidates, but why? Does it actually help?
Bernie Sanders reveals an even bigger plan than Elizabeth Warren, but does it go too far?
Codetermination is one of the most interesting ideas you’ve never heard of.