Scotty Hendricks
Contributing Writer
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
When you say, "I'll get it done this week," you're just lying to yourself.
People often divide the world into "us" and "them" then forget about everybody else.
Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.
A new study provides a possible scientific explanation for the existence of stories about ancient saints performing miracles with water.
A curated list of must-watch films from Big Think readers.
Not only does this give us a look at the scaffolding of the universe, we found some new galaxies too!
How do you get usable phosphorus into a system? A new study suggests lightning can do the trick.
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.
Growing marijuana in large, climate controlled warehouses is good for production but has a massive carbon footprint.
Fossils of ancient creatures doing anything are rare. This one is absolutely unique.
Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?
A study of 1.6 million people ties high incomes with more positive emotions and fewer negative ones, but only towards the self.
This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun's rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.
Eating veggies is good for you. Now we can stop debating how much we should eat.
The famous cognition test was reworked for cuttlefish. They did better than expected.
Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?
Cow cuddling is getting ever more popular, but what's the science behind using animals for relaxation?
How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?
While not the first such minister, the loneliness epidemic in Japan will make this one the hardest working.
One million year old mammoth DNA more than doubles the previous record and suggests that even older genomes could be found.
A new model of plate tectonics offers a chance to look back a billion years with new found accuracy.
Life is absurd, that detail can be the start of a great many things.
Radar astronomy is nothing new, but a new transmitter may give us unprecedented image resolution.
How much of this can be linked to genetics?
People often make a killing in stocks, but there are other ways to potentially turn major profits.
The newly discovered galaxies are 62 times bigger than the Milky Way.
Knowing what to do is one thing, doing it is another.
A powerful new tool lights up the brains of worms, and may soon help draw maps of other animals brains.
A new survey shows who believes what and how it differs from what Americans believe as a whole.
A new antibiotic hits germs with a two pronged attack.