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Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a medieval airship!
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Discover how Quantum Bayesianism challenges traditional quantum mechanics by focusing on the role of the observer in creating quantum reality.
When is a rabbit not a rabbit? When it’s a thought experiment designed to reveal the tricky tango of language and concepts.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.
If you’ve looked for a job recently, you may have encountered the personality test. You may also have wondered if it was backed by scientific research.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
Acting “little and often” has huge consequences and they’re not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
We all have a place in our lives where we look the other way and pretend everything is fine. It’s a built-in excuse to act selfishly.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
“Conceptual isolation” offers an agreeable solution.
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
“If we could target those circuits very precisely, then there’s great potential to block the inflammation response for many diseases.”
Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.
Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
“In order to seek truth,” Rene Descartes once wrote, “it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
When reading critiques that inflate the uncertainty of science, ask these 7 questions.
Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.
It will be immensely difficult for the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to protect their competitive edge if they do not pursue a radical change.