Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
For teens, finding help alone can prove all but impossible. But is mental health skewed towards the white, young, and affluent? The need for a simple method to help these teens is clear, and urgent.
Wow. Reading Hawking’s Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album.
Ramen isn’t going to be the next superfood, but it’s a little better than before.
The question isn’t “are you happy”… but rather “what kind of happy are you”?
The McVegan is a real thing… in a tiny small town test market, that is. But what are customers saying? And will it be available to everyone soon?
It’s more accurate than an atomic clock, and would take thousands of years to lose a second.
A new study shows that psilocybin can “reset” the brain and put depression in the rear-view mirror.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the things that I think is missing in the educational pipeline in America is… a class on what science is, and how and why it works.”
When we use the same word — awesome — to describe hot dogs as well as the Grand Canyon, do we really know what it means? Let’s look into awesomeness in the context of philosophy.
Socrates: what a dummy.
When you see Nazis in the streets chanting things like “Jews will not replace us,” it can be difficult to comprehend why they would believe such horrid things.
Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers a slew of suggestions for how to break up negative vibes in the office.
The philosopher could very well be in Mean Girls with this kind of theory.
Do your meetings and brainstorms always end with a pile of decimated ideas? Learn to overcome negativity bias and obstructive tendencies.
In 1936, a school girl named Phyllis wrote a letter to Albert Einstein to ask whether a person could believe in both science and religion. He was quick to reply.
“Well, technically it did land… just not in once piece.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has shown to dramatically improve insomnia, and a new app can help sufferers help themselves.
While it’s reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.
You may have heard of a new kind of therapy from your more “new age” friends, “Sensory Deprivation Tanks”. While it sounds like a form of torture that might have […]
John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Maya Angelou all had different approaches to writing. Here’s some of their best advice.
The truth is out there. But it may be subjective.
Advancements in creating artificial meat raise questions.
There are many people who preach the supposed benefits of psychedelics, but none do it as well, nor as reliably, as these philosophers and scientists.
Nietzsche loved aphorisms, and here we have collected 15 of his greatest hits.
Many people feel a profound connection to water, whether it’s oceans, rivers, or lakes. Now, science might have found an explanation.
There is a philosophical way of looking at the current arguments to remove Confederate statues, and it’s one that dates back to Ancient Greece.
Wait, what date is it really? How we gauge our sense of time hasn’t always been so consistent.
The newest viral video is from… 1947?
A pastor has come out in support of President Donald Trump’s authority to use force with North Korea.
We’re more lonely than ever and this is horrible. Equally horrible? We can’t bare to spend time alone.