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Big Think's eighth most popular video of the year reveals what the real future of war could look like.
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Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, "Who were you before you were born?"
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
You can love a romantic partner, but also a pet, a book, God, or the sound of someone’s voice. We need many more words for love.
Australian researchers figure out a new way to apply extreme pressure and squeeze out diamonds.
Sir Ken Robinson died on August 21 of cancer at the age of 70.
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Learn how to lean into difficult times and build your resilience.
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We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.
Next on Big Think's 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
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A study says nature's candy can be a valuable supplement to sunblock.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
"The function of private media is to make money for the people who own the media. It is a business," Sanders said.
Ground-based facilities enable the greatest scientific production in all of astronomy. The NSF needs to be ambitious, and it's now or never.
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think's sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.
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All religions have totems, rites, and taboos that are considered "sacred." Émile Durkheim believed society is largely underpinned by them.
We know it couldn't have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
We frequently say it's 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that's not all that's in the Universe.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
Want to get ahead at work? It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it — and adaptability is essential.