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Scotty Hendricks
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Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
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These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
Voter turnout in the United States is pretty low compared to other industrialized countries. While the 2016 US presidential election saw a 56% turnout rate, the 2017 general election in […]
A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.
A new study suggests that we all underestimate how much people like us after a first meeting.
We all know sleeping with your ex is a bad idea, or is it?
Climate change stands to take the one thing away from us that might make it easier to deal with, cheap beer.
Carl Sagan liked to smoke weed. His essay on why is fascinating.
Postmodernists like to question the very foundations of our modern society. Does this make them anti-science?
His book warns us of the dangers of mass media, passivity, and how even an intelligent population can be driven to gladly choose dictatorship over freedom.
We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn't have to be that way?
What an academic sting on humanities journals really means to the rest of us. And to academia.
They were a little optimistic in 1912, but they understood that adding carbon to the atmosphere has side effects.
America continues to tread water in healthcare and education while other countries have enacted reforms to great effect.
Philosophers can be pretty eccentric. Here we list seven of the most out there. Yes, Diogenes is included.
America isn't immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.
Think walking is void of philosophy? Nietzsche and Gros are here to say you're wrong.
Microplastics are everywhere in the ocean food chain. A new study suggests they might have another route into terrestrial animals.
Human egg cells can now be created from donor blood — a brave new world is upon us.
Both schizophrenics and people with a common personality type share similar brain patterns.