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The former head of ABC News laments that scandals like the one at NBC undermine trust in the news industry. “Every time this happens, it takes away a little of the credibility of everybody in the news business,” he says.

If we all lived under the intense scrutiny to which we are currently subjecting national news anchor Brian Williams, each of us would be discredited, say neuroscientists who study memory.

In a Big Think interview, David Westin, who ran ABC News for 14 years, laid out the steps that NBC needs to take to keep Brian Williams at the anchor desk and recover from Choppergate.

In a Big Think interview, David Westin, who ran ABC News for 14 years, laid out the steps that NBC needs to take to keep Brian Williams at the anchor […]

So David Brooks wants to arouse in us some SELECTIVE NOSTALGIA for neoconservatism.  That’s not surprising, because he once was a “neocon”—or a “national greatness” conservative. Now the brand “neocon” […]

“We can’t allow people to get sick,” President Donald Trump said from the Oval Office.

The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.

For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.

Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.

These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.

Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.

Science cannot be isolated from culture.

Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.

The human brain makes a striking deviation from the normal building plan.

The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.

All the latest titles from the experts at MIT.

Two Williams pioneered geological mapping in Britain and the United States – but the world only remembers one.

What good is a conspiracy theory you can’t profit from?

We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]

Picking up the thread of a conversation they started two decades ago in Jerusalem, with some help from Lenny Bruce, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, and other influences along the way, host Jason Gots and Williams College professor Jeffrey Israel go deep on private grievances, public life, and where the two overlap.

The “dangerous people” framework is a myth.

Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]

The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.

Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.

A new study contests the benefits of meditation in the workplace. We show everything that’s wrong with the research.

Diversity in the workplace is a critical attribute to any business, and it comes in different forms. At its core, diversity is about embracing people of different ages, races, genders, […]

A listing of some of the British royalty’s favorite family names as the name Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s new baby.

Trying to figure out the meaning of life? Here are a few thoughts on the subject from some very famous American philosophers.

Grad students will be taxed at the highest rate in the country, even higher than billionaires. For millions of young people, the American dream is to study the thing you’re […]

Get lost in a good book. Time and again, reading has been shown to make us healthier, smarter, and more empathic.