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Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a medieval airship!
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
Acting “little and often” has huge consequences and they’re not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even.
Discover how the threads of myth, legend, and artistry have been woven together by storytellers to craft history.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
A new study shows that beauty standards affect whether or not accusers are believed.
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
The discovery suggests that the “Boring Billion” period of evolution on Earth wasn’t so boring after all.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
In the shadow of the Shard, the mosaics help paint a picture of Roman London.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
What would you do differently if you listened to your true desires?
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The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
A single knife is sometimes worth more than a thousand armies.
In just 11 months, this lab can grow a memorial diamond from the ashes of a loved one. Can they change how we cope with loss?
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Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
“Painfully forced” is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald’s writing style.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.