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The poisoned candy legend is just one way that American fears manifested: as an easily understood threat to innocence.
What good is a conspiracy theory you can't profit from?
Biographies, treatises and stories on the occult and its strange cast of characters.
It’s rare but spectacular when the Moon passes in front of another planet. Here’s how to see it. From our perspective on Earth, the night sky appears virtually unchanged with the […]
Conjunctions this close are rare, but give humanity an opportunity to view our Solar System’s faintest planet. With eight planets orbiting our Sun, any two will eventually appear close together from […]
Witchcraft and pagan spiritualities are on the rise in the United States — especially within mainstream youth culture.
What should a black hole look like? Our theoretical predictions are about to meet our first observations. In science, there’s no moment more exciting than when you get to confront […]
It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
In this image, what happened to half of Saturn? Why is the moon getting in the way? NASA explains: As pictured above on the far right, Saturn is partly eclipsed […]
Photographer Ansel Adams, whose beautiful black and white landscapes full of mountains still grace both museum and office walls, called fellow photographer William Mortensen “the anti-Christ” for what he did […]
They remember her in colloquia and symposia, they remember her in the journals. They don’t remember her in the streets, her haunts. Reading her great novel Nightwood, Jeannette Winterson has said, “is […]
A Berkeley physics discussion group asked "the late night big questions of quantum theory" which served to refocus the field of quantum physics.
A conversation with the author of “Occult America.”
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The word “occult” is loaded with all sorts of associations. To some it conjures images of devil worship and witchcraft; to others it is just a concoction of superstition and […]
Many of the guests who we interview at Big Think can be described as “giants” in their fields, but this week we actually hosted our tallest guest ever. John Amaechi, […]
For a growing number of Americans—including many in the military—October 31st is returning to its Celtic and pre-Christian roots.