Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
How you feel influences what you watch, and vice-versa.
We often think only of grown ups taking pills, this study reminds us children can take them too.
Some games are just for fun, others are for thought provoking statements on life, the universe, and everything.
Consider the decline and fall of the South China Morning Post.
Oppression causes many people to run for the hills. Literally.
Going mad with Christmas cheer? Try one of these alternatives.
Most people think human extinction would be bad. These people aren’t philosophers.
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.
Great ideas in philosophy often come in dense packages. Then there is where the work of Marcus Aurelius.
What can America learn from this?
China’s rise has necessitated a global PR push. It includes influencing how the movies you watch depict China.
Phone usage was found to have similar reinforcing tendencies as eating or doing drugs.
A study out of Finland shows us that sex is sex and robots are robots, and the overlap is confusing.
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
One of the most famous experiments in psychology might be completely wrong.
Mercantilism, the oldest thing in economics, is back in a big way.
Schadenfreude is a common feeling, but not all of it is the same.
It’s not just a case of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
A study on flies may hold the key to future addiction treatments.
Sure we know it would be bad, but what do all of these scary numbers really mean?
Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn’t as shocking as you might think.
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist.
This parody documentary skewers both the skeptic and the superstitious, and accurately shows what issues skeptics face.
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Freedom and democracy are great, but our understanding of what those things are has changed a lot since we came up with them.
Did you know? Looped music has been used a means of torture.
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
Voter turnout in the United States is pretty low compared to other industrialized countries. While the 2016 US presidential election saw a 56% turnout rate, the 2017 general election in […]
A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.
A new study suggests that we all underestimate how much people like us after a first meeting.