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How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
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Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
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The visual languages of comics and graphic novels are great exercise for developing brains.
A clever new study definitively measures how long it takes for quantum particles to pass through a barrier.
Hierarchies of taste exist in our society, but their roots often reflect more than just the quality of work.
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Thanks to modern technology, we can reexamine our assumptions about ancient warriors.
Regularities, which we associate with laws of nature, require an explanation.
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
Physicist Frank Wilczek proposes new methods of searching for extraterrestrial life.
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The unfamiliar landscape of America’s medical past is marked by bizarre incidents, forgotten breakthroughs and selfless sacrifice.
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A curated list of must-watch films from Big Think readers.
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Humans are particularly prone to shiver when a group does or thinks the same thing at the same time.
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]
What is human dignity? Here’s a primer, told through 200 years of great essays, lectures, and novels.
The U.S. law regulating the cosmetics industry was passed in 1938, and it hasn’t been significantly updated since.
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