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Big Think covered the 2012 study shortly after it was published. We are now correcting the record.
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The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
In an environment of impressive IQs, emotional intelligence makes all the difference.
When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
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The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
“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.”
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
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Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?