In his new book, James Hamblin looks at how we treat our bodies, internally and externally.
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As the US prepares for a change in power, Professor Sanford Levinson says dialogue that was formerly bound to people’s inner monologue has been “liberated” into the public space.
A recent study in neurotheology states religious experiences might have helped our brain evolve.
LIGO’s world-changing announcement was the beginning. The best is what comes next. “It’s the first time the universe has spoken to us through gravitational waves, up to now we’ve been deaf […]
HINT: Don’t just learn the opposite view. Argue it.
A new study finds that by having a plan B, we may unintentionally sabotage our initial plan.
Sotheby’s will auction off 380 pieces from Bowie’s collection later this year. The collection is “eclectic, unscripted, [and] understated,” according to Sotheby’s European chairman Oliver Barker.
Are you a maverick or are you a mouse? Author Julian Guthrie brings us one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time in ‘How to Make a Spaceship’.
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Mother Teresa will be canonized this Sunday, September 4th. What does it take to become a saint, and is the Vatican mistaken to not address Mother Teresa’s flaws?
If Scotty beams you up for a trip around the Sun, here’s how to handle it. “I really didn’t have to work, shall we say, with Star Trek. It was a […]
Earlier claims from NASA’s Fermi GBM team indicated that they just might. Here’s the nail in that coffin! “If you’ve seen one gamma-ray burst, you’ve seen one gamma-ray burst!” –Common quote among […]
A live-blog event of an incredible public lecture by a scientist on the inside of James Webb’s team. “The [James Webb] telescope is basically designed to answer the big questions in […]
Big Think teams up with Hyper, a new premium video app that curates 10 videos each day, with no buffering or data depletion.
Bill Nye answers a question submitted by Nick: is it possible to take two giant magnets and use the repulsion force between the two to lift objects into space?
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Turns out simplicity is really, really complicated. Having worked with Steve Jobs for years as an advertising creative director on Apple products, Ken Segall has taken a blood oath to uphold the principles of simplicity.
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Many smart folk need to relearn what Trump knows, and Aristotle taught, about persuasion. Logic and facts alone often don’t persuade.
Fraternal twins tend to live longer than singletons. But identical twins generally outlive fraternal ones.
Silicon Valley engineers and financiers make up the lion’s share of the movement.
That’s not how probability works. Or asteroids, for that matter. “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, […]
Elon Musk wants to put 1 million people on Mars in 40 years. The internet had questions. Here are his answers.
Beyond climate change, ice ages or even the death of our Sun, the cosmic dance continues for ages. Here’s how it will truly end. “The way to love anything is to […]
Artists, illustrators, and adventurers of the 1800s has fantastical imaginations for the distant future, i.e. our present day. How do their magical predictions stack up against our reality?
A new experimental drug can theoretically take out any virus, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
Anti-Islam fervor has overlooked important artistic contributions made by Muslim artists around the world.
American anti-drug laws are inspired by colonialism and racism, not science. They are at odds with our current understanding of addiction and ignore the economic blight of this second gilded age.
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Google has announced final design plans for the first modular smartphone, the project Ara. However, Dave Hakkens, who nurtured this idea for a modular device, isn’t happy with the final product.
The detection of a second binary black hole merger officially begins the robust era of a new kind of astronomy. “It turned out that nature was very kind, and there […]
In ‘All the Real Indians Died Off,’ two scholars take longstanding myths about Native Americans to task.
One writer’s journey through a video game that can only be completed by writing.