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Only lately have researchers begun to study courage systematically, to try to define what it is, where it comes from and how it manifests itself in the body and brain.

A conversation with the Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

After seven months, The New York Times’ series on philosophy closes today. Simon Critchley reminds us what questions philosophy seeks to answer, such as, “What is knowledge?”

There can be few drivers who have not wanted to hurl a G.P.S. system out of the window when it guides the car into a traffic jam. Will new emotionally sensitive systems help?

After a rocky start, people will come once again to appreciate the idea that compromise and democracy are synonymous.

Companies that specialize in science fiction and futuristic space travel will embrace the commercial space age.

The United States will start to imitate the industrial and strategic trade policies of countries like China, Japan, Korea, Germany, and France. It will also begin to withdraw its overseas troops.

With no War on Drugs there would be, within one generation, no “black problem” in the United States, says The New Republic, echoing England’s increasingly liberal drugs policies.

“The world doesn’t matter to us the way it used to,” say two philosophers who have written a book about the loss of traditional meaning in contemporary secular culture.

Turning off mobile phones and avoiding the Internet can leave people suffering from symptoms similar to those seen in drug addicts trying to go cold turkey, researchers have found.

The European subspecies is slowly dying out, according to some. The blame should be laid firmly on the shoulders of emancipated women.

The American people rescued these six banks. They’ve all violated the law, and they’re all suspected of even more possible illegalities.

The cosmetics industry has dragged its feet when it comes to developing alternatives to animal testing. Here they are again trying to stall new animal welfare laws.

We are not hapless victims of circumstances, we are deeply complicit in creating them. We are not stuck with global warming. We are global warming.

Spiritually unmoored, many people nonetheless experience intense elevation during the magical moments that sport often affords, says David Brooks.

U.S. politics, often decried for its “partisanship”, is all too bipartisan in its deeply dysfunctional consensus on tax and wealth, says Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs.

Newly published research suggests keeping a potential romantic partner guessing can pique his or her interest—mystery can be a powerful motivator of attraction.

Nearly two centuries after Tocqueville, both fear and hope still brood over the puzzle of America’s innermost nature, and America’s influence on the wider world.

The standard cosmological model holds that most of the matter in the universe remains missing in action; now a small but vocal group of cosmologists is challenging that model.

Just in time for New York’s fashion week, Dan Ariely, the Duke Behavioral Economics professor and author of Predictably Irrational, sent Big Think a video on how fake designer sunglasses […]

Close to 90 percent of U.S. households still subscribe to pay TV in one form or another but 2011 may be the year of “cord cutting” and the end of cable television.

Once a company has 500 shareholders, it must register its private shares with the S.E.C. and publicly disclose its financial results. Is Facebook approaching the limit?

Multiculturalist thinkers frequently dismiss liberal moral principles such as freedom and tolerance as illusions, or as not being good enough, says Frank Furedi.

The America Competes Act, passed by Congress shortly before Christmas, calls for $46 billion in science and technology research funding over the next three years.

Genetically modified plants could sequester more carbon and make better biofuels, possibly offsetting five billion tons by 2050. So what’s standing in their way?

The U.S. cannot manufacture goods as economically as other nations because of our taxes and social benefits. As a result, we need to look to the service sector and finance […]

The mechanisms of markets are simply descriptions of human interaction, and how we all bring value to each other.

How far women decide to go in business will in part be determined by the structure of the American family and how we decide to allocate our resources.

The U.S.’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely, says Le Monde’s Alain Gresh.

Harvard scientist Jeff Lichtman wants to build a full map of the mind by carving off slivers of a mouse brain and passing the portions through a powerful electron microscope.