Tesla’s Elon Musk gives a grave warning to those trying to hold back self-driving car technology. According to him, we have it all backwards.
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Do we really care about privacy? An interview with Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s Note to Self, about The Privacy Paradox campaign. She discusses an ethical code needed for technologists, why the typical ad-based business model online is not sustainable, and why it’s time for internet users to be “digitally woke.”
Time travel has titillated scientists and science-fiction fans alike ever since HG Wells first conceived of it in the 19th century. But it plausible? Princeton astrophysicist John Richard Gott III discusses the two ways that it might be.
It takes a magician —or two — to know when someone’s performing clever sleight-of-hand.
Scientists get one step closer to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak by creating a material that can conceal objects, with far-reaching commercial applications.
Artists, illustrators, and adventurers of the 1800s has fantastical imaginations for the distant future, i.e. our present day. How do their magical predictions stack up against our reality?
Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]
Our special place on the planet becomes harder to stomach the more we destroy it.
The conflict between faiths is one good reason to doubt God’s existence.
Bill Nye tackles a tough question that every person alive has been hung up on – what happens after we die? Where does our life energy go?
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A rash of teen idols, singers, actors, and actresses have all come out recently detailing their struggles.
How many kinds of stories are there? From Harry Potter, to Oedipus and Romeo and Juliet, scientists at University of Vermont use data modeling to figure it out.
A recent study reflects that men view their female friends differently than women view their male friends – but by a pretty insignificant margin.
If a prism can do it, why not the air? “It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more […]
As a number of states decide the fate of legalized and medical marijuana next week, John Hudak looks back at the history of public policy.
Cross ‘multi-tasking ninja’ off your resume, it’s out, say Stanford researchers and other cognitive experts. Here are three tips for transitioning back to single-tasking.
A “double burst” of star formation in a globular cluster may explain our galaxy’s mysterious center. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” –J.K. Rowling […]
Surprisingly, this study was not funded by HBO, Netflix, Hulu or the Illuminati.
Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.
So how would you like your prescription? A dragon? Tiger? Something tribal maybe?
I trail run early in the morning, in part, to avoid people. Los Angeles might be vast, but spacious it is not. By 6:30 am I’m running up one side […]
Are robots and AI really ready for us to begin depending on them?
Studies suggest that giving elementary students homework does more harm than good.
When we acknowledge and formally recognize death in our culture, it is fundamentally a different way of dealing with it than what we usually do.
If free will doesn’t exist, is it healthier to believe it does?
On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think Podcast, Ethan Hawke and host Jason Gots discuss fatherhood, perpetual warfare, and the daily struggle between light and dark within every person.
Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.
Despite recent bad press, Tesla’s autopilot likely saved the life of a man who experienced a severe medical condition while driving. He asked his car to drive him to the nearest hospital.
Researchers like Dr. Nadine Burke Harris have recognized the negative impacts that adverse childhood experiences can have on health. But now we understand more about the resiliency factors as well.
Humans like to believe evolution implies progress. As Stephen Jay Gould notes, Darwin warned of this misunderstanding. We may be better at adapting to our present, regrettable circumstances.