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Next in the company’s plans for world domination: The ability to find answers to the questions you normally don’t think of going to a computer to ask.

Despite our growing understanding of how the human brain works, myths persist among the public at large and even among educators who express an interest in neuroscience. 

Peter Thiel delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Nantucket Project, arguing that the U.S, is resting on its laurels, and no longer innovating.

Neuroscientists at MIT and Boston University have located pairs of neuron ensembles that oscillate differently depending on which thought is being entertained, illuminating a mystery of cognition.

New research out of Canada has found a genetic link between being obese and having lower incidents of depression. Researchers speculate there is an evolutionary reason for the connection. 

Psychologist Kevin Dutton presents the classic psychological test known as “the trolley problem” with a variation. Take the test and measure you response on the psychopathic spectrum.

Tim Ferriss describes how you can learn lifelong skills, and along the way fundamentally change the way you think about food, in four hours.

So, I’ve decided to sign up for Skype after getting several invitations to use it for speaking gigs. (Apparently, sometime when I wasn’t paying attention, this became a thing that […]

Big Think’s online course, “Great big Ideas,” was produced in partnership with The Jack Parker Corporation.

Brazilian scientists have been working on gathering the necessary materials to clone endangered species, but conservationists fear it distracts from existing habitat protection.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson says “the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”

Neurological research shows that brains process auditory information ten times faster than visual cues, but our ability to truly listen is being put at risk by digital distraction and information overload.

Ferran Adria, head chef of the El Bulli restaurant, surprised the culinary world by closing down his establishment at the height of its popularity. Now Adria is back with a new idea.

Colorado and Washington passed ballot on Tuesday legalizing the consumption and cultivation of marijuana, allowing researchers to better study its effects on public health. 

We know that good school leaders: Create a shared vision Create relevant and lasting professional development opportunities for teachers Ensure the infrastructure is solid Budget to meet the changing needs […]

On a finance panel at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas held on Nantucket, Massachusetts in October, Larry Summers tackled the question of whether teutonic monetary virtue or monetary […]

A professor specialising in spatial analysis at London’s UCL has produced a wonderful interactive map of London produced purely with a peppering of dots marking the locations individuals tweeted from […]

The president’s decisive 60+% electoral college victory can be contrasted, of course, with his very narrow popular vote margin.  Our Constitution has the effect of magnifying his win, giving it […]

Does President Obama need to learn to speak Republican? He probably will if he wants to be successful in a second term (if elected). Furthermore, you can become a better […]

Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale has created an expertly delivered whistlestop tour of psychology for the Big Think. The talk outlines the differences between […]

Grover Norquist stands to be a major player in the debate over how to face the upcoming fiscal cliff.

By isolating a group of neurons that influence how the brain experiences time, researchers think it possible that an individual’s sense of time could be tweaked by altering neural signals. 

Professor Larry Lessig presents his plan to end cronyism in Washington at The Nantucket Project, a festival of idea on Nantucket, Massachusetts.

In the years ahead, new techniques which seek to restore the balance of healthy bacteria in the human gut could form the foundation of a fundamentally new kind of medicine. 

When the Italian artist Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with brain cancer, he felt dissatisfied with the options given to him for treatment, so he went crowdsourcing online…