Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
Don’t get too excited, there is a catch to the study.
A new study has some disturbing implications for rodents who like a nice soda.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn’t exist when you have no evidence either way?
Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn’t as shocking as you’d think.
America’s socialists owe a lot to one man, but what did he think about socialism?
Love to drop F-bombs? Thank the shift to agriculture.
The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.
Inequality and racism are connected, but maybe not as much as you think.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.
Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.
One flew east, one flew west, eight shrinks flew into the cuckoo’s nest.
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He’s enflamed conversation about socialism across America.
A study on the effects of LSD microdosing shows some fittingly strange results.
We keep hearing that Scandinavia has perfected socialism, but is that true?
Climate change is a dire threat, perhaps it is time to put the people who created and denied the problem on trial?
A new book about life under communism reveals an unexpected benefit.
Think America would never elect a socialist? Think again.
Need to reduce your stress? Try thinking of the face of your better half.
There is no one answer. But there are 10.
What is socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is it just capitalism?
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”
Thinking your life is worthwhile is correlated with a variety of positive outcomes.
Need to know how an election will turn out? Call your bookie.
Donating to the right charities can save lives.
When a country’s educated or entrepreneurial citizens leave all at once, the phenomenon is called “human capital flight” or “brain drain”.