Technology & Innovation

Employers who provide their workers with an on-site canteen or cafeteria tend to sport workforces with higher morale and boosted productivity.

Tech entrepreneur Brad Templeton returns to Big Think to discuss how Bitcoin disrupts the finance industry.

Rather than clear arable land for solar power farms, engineers have proposed using the millions of square miles of roadway and parking lots to gather in solar energy.

Bill Nye discusses the Rosetta comet landing, ruminates on the expanse of potential discoveries it could open up, and explains why this current space adventure may one day prevent a major global tragedy. 

For more than six years, Clara Boj and Diego Diaz have been developing a solution that enables kids to simultaneously enjoy the physical and virtual worlds of play. Their invention, HYBRIDPLAY, turns playground objects into game controllers and teaches kids how to work collaboratively.

The ability to talk is an important asset for people in business, but there’s an invaluable amount of information your could learn about your clients if you just listen.

The NFL’s success hosting regular season games at Wembley may spur the league into expanding full-time across the Atlantic.

By scaling its already formidable storage and computational capacities, Google plans to store individuals’ genomes in the cloud so they can be analyzed en masse by healthcare researchers.

Predictions that the global population would level off later this century may prove false, reviving a debate about how to grow national economies while protecting environmental resources.

A writer makes a connection between the wild world of Twitter and the sociological principles of hypercriticism, which stipulates that negative statements are inherently assumed to be more intelligent than positive ones.

The age of consumerism is a well known notion nowadays, and it breeds the idea that we have more freedom in choosing what we want and how to spend our […]

The reason why isn’t important. If you want to keep your job search a secret, the key is erasing potential clues while maintaining a strong office poker face.

The death knell for the banner ad is tolling and few are lamenting its decline.

Julie Sunderland, the Director of Program Related Investments for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains how the Foundation works to include and incentivize the private sector in order to accomplish its ambitious goals. 

Boarding an airplane is painfully slow, and while the back-to-front method used by most airlines is an intuitively good way to get people into their seats quickly, the results are mostly disastrous.

Having a do-to list for other people also helps circumvent the dreaded task of networking. 

The American stock markets have all opened with gains this morning and the Economist reports this is likely due to the wave of GOP victories in the midterm elections.

If learning institutions have become money machines, where does that leave their educational mission?

Only 8% of people who suffer from cardiac arrest survive this incident. An ambulance drone could deliver automated defibrillation to any patient in a four square miles within a minute, increasing survival rates up to 80%. 

A professor at Vanderbilt Law School has made it her mission to investigate why obese women — more than obese men — are missing out on higher salaries.

There’s a fine line between fostering company culture and seeking to control member thinking and behavior. If your organization is leaning toward the latter, it’s being run like a cult… and cults don’t do good business.

With everyone always trying to identify “the next Silicon Valley,” Eric Hippeau explains that New York City needs not try to be the next anything. It’s already a force in and of itself.

Through a clever experiment, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have arrived at a closer understanding of the foundation of the human imagination.

Children from intact families are more likely to be competitive in today’s economy because their parents tend to spend more money on their education.

Chang’e 5 T1 returned to Earth yesterday after an eight-day unmanned mission. The modules successful re-entry and landing paves the way for an eventual Chinese moon landing.

Some weather models forecast a slight chance of snow this weekend in the northeast. But according to members of the National Weather Service, the sheer amount of variables when it comes to forecasting precipitation makes predicting snowfall something of a wash.

The future of Facebook may be as a major content-host. Instead of clicking links to visit outside sites, much of what you read on the web could soon be within Mark Zuckerberg’s domain.

Entrepreneurs who commit themselves to the trade, attempting to build another business if their first one (or two) fail are more likely to succeed. 

When IBM Chief Accessibility Officer Frances West sat down at a recent screening of “Gone Girl,” she immediately realized that something was wrong.  In the opening credits, there were “names […]

Despite laws that prohibit discrimination against women in the workplace, a gap persists in what men and women receive in compensation for equal work.