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Time was when being an entrepreneur or an achiever, was something that was frowned upon by “the snobs at the top and those who where envious at the bottom,” says Jeffrey […]
Carl Sagan was far from the first to declare we are the children of ancient stars.
Going from a solitary teenage protester in front of the Swedish parliament to a global icon in little more than a year certainly merits a distinction.
She’s not a scientist, an expert, or even an adult. But she’s got one good lesson to teach us all. Like most people on Earth, Greta Thunberg is not a climate […]
Two recent polls underscore Americans' shifting attitudes on climate change.
The renowned author plans to publish a follow-up to the 1985 bestseller in September 2019.
The UN has commissioned a study of extreme poverty in the most of one of the world’s wealthiest nations, the United States.
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What happens when Shakespeare goes to prison? His works humanize prisoners and open them up to reform in a way that the prison system fails to, says author Margaret Atwood.
Before you tout the next exoplanet as “the most Earth-like ever,” ask whether that’s true, and whether that’s even a good thing. “You can spend too much time wondering which […]
The Anthropic Principle is more limited than we like to believe. “There is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,‘I feel this is right for me,I know that […]
“It may amuse you, Mother, to try to photograph during your solitude,” Julia Margaret Cameron’s daughter told her while presenting her with her birthday gift in 1863 while Mr. Cameron […]
Comedian Margaret Cho shares the best advise she was given in school, and why she keeps that simple advice -- never stop doing what you're doing -- to this day.
–Guest Post by Declan Fahy, AoE Science & Culture correspondent. There is a scene in The Iron Lady when former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is asked by her doctor […]
Margaret Atwood’s philosofro is almost as engaging and intricately structured as her internationally acclaimed novels Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale. NEXT >>
Margaret Cho, the "Patron Saint of Outsiders" reveals the secret to overcoming barriers.
Bravo to Canadian literary legend Margaret Atwood for waging online warfare against library closings this week. When Toronto councillor Doug Ford floated some made-up statistics about the number of libraries […]
“Canadians have a reprehensible habit of making fun of just about everything,” says novelist Margaret Atwood. In her Big Think interview, she tries to explain Canadian humor, asking us, “What […]
Aristotle taught that “knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” — all leaders and teams should take note.
In “On Liberalism," Cass Sunstein argues that liberalism can only endure if we reclaim its core commitments and revive its spirit of freedom and hope for the future.
The benefits of compassion in the workplace are manifold — but leaders should retain an intentional focus on mental, emotional, and physical balance.
Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.
When you enter someone's home, you learn how life is lived elsewhere.
One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
To Fred Hoyle, the Big Bang was nothing more than a creationist myth. 75 years later, it's cemented as the beginning of our Universe.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.