Named “Supernova H0pe,” it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.
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“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen.
You become the main protagonist in these novels.
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
There are nearly 100 towns named “Troy.”
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.
Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine? Well, it depends.
Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it “astrotheology.”
Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a “school without a master” than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.
Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
Try writing a novel without using the letter “e.”
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.