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Money can’t buy happiness, but try being hopeful and broke at the same time.
This study has linked female porn consumption to orgasms that are easier to achieve and more satisfying during both masturbation and partnered sex.
The finding is remarkably similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes how incompetent people tend to overestimate their own competency.
How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting.
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Debating is cognitively taxing but also important for the health of a democracy—provided it’s face-to-face.
Without quantum physics, the Sun wouldn’t shine at all. Earth, as we know it, is only teeming with life because of the influence of our Sun. Its light and heat provides […]
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Can thinking about the past really help us create a better present and future?
Life is absurd, that detail can be the start of a great many things.
With three colors and three anticolors, there aren’t actually nine gluons; only eight. One of the most puzzling features of the Universe is the strong nuclear force. Inside every proton or […]
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
A popular and longstanding wave of thought in psychology and psychotherapy is that diagnosis is not relevant for practitioners in those fields.
Complex organisms and living worlds couldn’t exist without these transitions. You couldn’t make the Universe we have today if everything were always the same. Although many philosophically favored the idea […]
If we’re going to open major workplaces, we have to be ready for this enormous information gap. When it comes to knowing your medical status, the ideal scenario is to […]
Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Research finds that our sense of self can be manipulated by certain smells and sounds.
Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]
Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.
Big Think’s co-founder and CEO, Victoria Montgomery Brown, offers six pieces of advice to founders in her forthcoming book.
A good apology can do great things. A bad one can cause trouble. Know the difference.
Big Think co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown breaks down the process of transitioning from founder to boss in her new book, Digital Goddess.
A 12-year long study examines the differences between how same-sex and different-sex couples argue, with some surprising results.
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
Love a good villain? It says a lot about you.
A study finds 1.8 billion trees and shrubs in the Sahara desert.
If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]