The renowned magician recently joined Big Think CEO and cofounder Victoria Brown for a wide-ranging discussion.
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For too long, we’ve treated racism as a personality trait or a vague systemic menace rather than the result of policies and ideas created deliberately to benefit some groups at the expense of others. As a result, too many anti-racist efforts have collapsed into name-calling sessions, failing to achieve their goals. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist, sees a better way.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Taking preventive measures and investing in positive mental health can impact productivity, company culture, and staff turnover.
Neuroscience explains terrifying ordeals, from out-of-body experiences to alien abductions.
Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic caused colleges to start teaching remotely, students balked at the idea of paying full tuition for online learning. It’s not hard to understand why. […]
We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.
The history of the Universe is forever imprinted in our own bodies. We can learn a lot about the history of the Universe just by looking at each of our own […]
Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?
If you want to find life in the Universe, this is how you do it. When it comes to uncovering the ultimate truths about reality, we can only reap what we […]
The system can even be designed to send alerts to employees when they’ve come too close to a coworker.
What can 3D printing do for medicine? The “sky is the limit,” says Northwell Health researcher Dr. Todd Goldstein.
Hubble has been operational for nearly 30 years, and still produces the most spectacular images of all. Here are this year’s best. Hubble, astronomy’s revolutionary observatory, narrowly survived last year’s gyroscope […]
About 21 percent of gamers in the United States are over the age of 50.
We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).
An antibody produced by llamas seems particularly effective at neutralizing a key protein of the novel coronavirus.
A larger vocabulary can be a confidence booster for children and make adults better communicators.
According to the Standard Model, the leptons and antileptons should all be separate, independent particles from one another. But the three types of neutrino all mix together, indicating they must […]
We may find signs of life a mere 31 light-years away.
A massive Dating.com study reveals just how important politics are in the dating world right now.
Should other nations start requiring schools to teach climate science, too?
A study of over 100,000 businesses in Oregon uncovered some unsettling news about worker conditions.
A conspiracy theory that 90 percent of the world’s population will be killed off spreads widely on pandemic fears.
Health care professionals worldwide are facing a second crisis, the consequences of which we’re only beginning to understand.
Sometimes not looking forward to something helps you get it done.
If you think that the Moon is only good for reflecting sunlight, you’ve got another think coming. To human eyes, the Moon is the second brightest visible object, trailing only the […]
The racing plane is hoped to be the fastest electric plane in existence.
The double-slit experiment, all these years later, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics. When we divide up matter into the smallest possible chunks that it’s made […]
And which ones are probably examples where we’ve fooled ourselves? Every once in a while — multiple times per year — a new research finding fails to line up with our theoretical expectations. In […]