After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
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A curated list of must-watch films from Big Think readers.
Most people don't just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.
The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.
How autonomous weapons will be utilized in our military is uncertain. Paul Scharre shares why their future use on the battlefield should be carefully considered.
A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.
The threat is real and many scientists and engineers are standing behind them.
The scattered toponyms that delight us by their unvarnished expression of downheartedness, defeat and despond.
"When people are less focused on self and the problems of the self, there is a kind of alleviation of stress. There’s nothing like reaching out and contributing to the lives of others to give a person a sense of significance and purpose."
-Professor Stephen Post, from his Big Think interview.
It’s the greatest source of energy in the Universe, and yet we had no idea until less than 100 years ago. “The sun is a miasmaOf incandescent plasmaThe sun’s not […]
Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is one of the most famous novels ever written about combat, in general and in the American Civil War, where the book is […]
Public opinion about climate change, observes the New York Times’ Andrew Revkin, can be compared to “waves in a shallow pan,” easily tipped with “a lot of sloshing but not […]
I am back from an excellent science journalism conference in Denmark and will have more to say on the meeting which highlighted several issues that speak directly to challenges faced […]