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Economist Tyler Cowen says there are good reasons to be crypto-skeptical.
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Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn’t find any.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.
Spotty connectivity isn’t going to jeopardize Ukraine’s drone attacks.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
Why should anyone care about the metaverse? Expert Matthew Ball explains what it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters.
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Some of the world’s most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
In Georgia, it’s becoming less common to pronounce words like “prize” as “prahz.”
Arguments on social media are notorious. Can practicing intellectual humility make us smarter and happier? Science says yes.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
In “Not Born Yesterday,” author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
If you’re looking for work, a new study says having fast internet helps.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
It’s about 7.6 million times faster than what you probably have at home.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn’t). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
Online Shinto communities have existed since the birth of the internet as we know it.
AI is both a tool and a catalyst — and the key to successful integration is to rewrite your rule book and tinker.
AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.
19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.
Pugs are funny and cute, but that is because we have bred them intentionally to have debilitating genetic mutations. Is that ethical?
“Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world.”
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.