The causes of hit products are themselves uncausable. ‘Hit Makers’ by Derek Thompson explains why we know how to make songs, but not hits.
Search Results
You searched for: Chaos
Before we had the right to vote, we had the right to protest, says journalist Wesley Lowery.
▸
6 min
—
with
This study reminds us that we are stardust, operating under the same laws as any other form of matter.
How an ancient text, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, may be influencing the actions of powerful Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
“If all that liberals can do in response is continue to lie about the causes of terrorism and lock arms with Islamists, we have some very rough times ahead,” writes Sam Harris.
KGB-era “active measures” are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.
You know what a black hole is, and we’ve found a few so far. But oh, are there ever so many more out there! “Black holes are the seductive dragons of […]
In 1972, eight mice were placed in a utopia. Full of food, water, bedding, and space for 3000 mice. Within three years there were no survivors.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, James Gleick, author of Time Travel – a History, talks with host Jason Gots about why we’re so obsessed with something that’s evidently impossible.
During a time of division and fear, the Buddhist path offers insights into surviving and uniting.
As John B Judis writes in The Populist Explosion, this sort of uprising has been with us for years.
Rumors of a terrorist gunman escalated at LAX. A panicked crowd trampled an old woman, snapping her femur. In our best Dick Cheney voice: “If you allow blind fear to disrupt society, the terrorists have already won.”
What would happen if gene editing fell into the wrong hands?
Remember that one time when a Philosopher King ruled the whole world? Well, here is how that turned out.
Samuel Arbesman warns that we’ve entered a new “age of Entanglement” with our complex technology-based systems.
Advances in our understanding of cognitive processes are proving tremendous. When it comes to understanding consciousness, you might say the ghost in the machine is a chemical engineer.
Will we be building a better world or a more homogeneous one?
Any forecast attempting to predict the weather beyond seven to 10 days isn’t credible, say meteorologists. This hasn’t stopped AccuWeather from rolling out a 90-day forecast feature.
If you’re looking for the blueprint for a better tomorrow, you’ll find it in Rutger Bregman’s Utopia for Realists. Its premise is simple: we should adopt a universal basic income plan for all citizens, work less, and open up our borders.
Passport specifications are regulated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the relative power of your country’s passport says a lot about its standing in thew world.
On the map, the changing fortunes of French baby boys’ names look like battles in a weird, unreported war.
Democracy is happening like never before, and it’s exploiting our deepest fears and failures.
We heard the news today, 46 years ago, that the Beatles were no more. But who was the real killer in the magical mystery tour of the Fab Four’s finale?
All text involves translation. Either from reality or imagination into language, or between languages. Can the language that perfectly fit physics translate every pattern under the sun? Well, nothing in physics chooses…
The Campbell Soup Company says it will go ahead and label foods that contain GMO ingredients, breaking industry ranks on the issue holding up wider adoption of agricultural biotechnology.
The history of Guy Fawkes and the use of his likeness.
Jon Acuff discusses the four moments you’ll encounter in your career and the key to navigating them.
▸
4 min
—
with
Freud was much more than the Id and Oedipus, and he may be the answer to today’s problems.
Open borders would lead to a massive wave of immigration and probably the collapse of American constitutional democracy… though one economist says that’s not a bad thing.