Companies like Uber get a lot of hype, but they may need to innovate their policies to become real changemakers in the new economy.
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Walter Martin sings about art history in his new album Arts and Leisure and makes music for your eyes.
After hydrogen and helium, the periodic table is full of surprises. “The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” –Harlan Ellison One of the most remarkable […]
Is everything astonishingly simple, though? Or is this a grandiose claim that falls flat when confronted with the evidence? “My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we […]
We have the ability to reach many more people than ever before in history with our stupidity.
And it couldn’t have done it without the heat from our world. “Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.” –Langston Hughes If you’ve ever […]
The Star Trek actor has some words on invoking Japanese internment camps in the context of the current Syrian refugee conversation.
A look at the techniques the show’s producers use to whip the contestants into a superstitious frenzy, and the host’s own bizarre beliefs.
Words of wisdom from Sherman Alexie: “I don’t know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.”
Hawking’s greatest achievement is also the greatest source of misunderstanding. “Maybe that is our mistake: maybe there are no particle positions and velocities, but only waves. It is just that […]
Did you know 30 percent of job recruiters have had a parent submit a résumé for their child? Or that girls tend to be helicoptered more than boys?
A couple Big Think experts take the anxiety out of eating by dishing some digestible advice.
We’re not living in the most discourse-friendly age in history. Nowhere is that more clear than in comments sections.
The Icelandic prison system is about to welcome the 26th banker responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown.
Happy Birthday To The Person Who Literally Brought Us The Entire Universe “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” –Edwin Hubble As […]
The cologne marketed to men as “catnip for women” actually works. Only, not on women, but on jungle cats. “The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that […]
By examining our minds at a quantum level, we change them, and by changing them, we change the reality that shapes them.
The most powerful accelerator in the world found the Higgs, but might not find anything else. What should come next? “It is no good to try to stop knowledge from […]
Always wanted the Zen, but without the meditation? Maybe drawing is your path to mindfulness.
Coming together after a tragedy is equally tribal as causing the tragedy in the first place.
Leaders at the Federal Reserve will meet later this month to discuss potential rate hikes that have most experts and economists split.
It’s extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
Even the cosmic home where our Solar System resides will someday meet it’s demise. But how? “Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new […]
See it over the coming six weeks, before it disappears and heads out of the Solar System forever. “I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and […]
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Exclusion and a lack of diversity are the breeding grounds for harassment. “There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in […]
Lately, we’ve become so infatuated with creating the next big thing, rushing headlong into crafting new technologies that we’ve neglected to think through the ethics of it. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
Lying is deception. It’s also human: 60 percent of us can’t go for longer than 10 minutes without doing it.