The “Foundation” series, recently adapted into a show by Apple TV, was inspired by a fascinating, real-life academic discipline.
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Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
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In his new book “Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave,” Ryan Holiday explores the virtue of courage and how to overcome fear.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.
Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series helped inspire the field of social physics, which uses math to understand crowd behavior.
Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?
The mad dog’s bite caused a hideous metamorphosis, which transformed its human victim into a nefarious monster.
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
The sonnenrad is a Heathen symbol composed of 12 repeated runes.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
Must a religious story be confirmed as a true fact to be effective and inspiring?
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
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We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly “reconstructed” by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.