With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
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Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
The technology is not a replacement for human labor — it's a way to complement existing human tasks.
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, "We were here?"
For human-centered leadership to achieve a “tipping point," people, productivity, and profits must be aligned.
In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.
"Hardcore History" host Dan Carlin recently spoke with Big Think about the history of humanity's drive to create — and whether or not we can control it.
The largest hazardous asteroid found in the last 8 years showcases a little-known class of planet-killers. And we're woefully unprepared.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.
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Human thinking is antiquated.
Are we the stories we tell? Kmele sat down with legendary conservationist Jane Goodall, actor Terry Crews and psychologist Dan McAdams to discuss how humanity makes its meaning.
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Our host Kmele went inside Fermilab, America’s premiere particle accelerator facility, to find out how the smallest particles in the universe can teach us about its biggest mysteries.
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Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
Although human beings arrived on Earth just ~300,000 years ago, we've transformed the entire planet completely. Here's how we did it.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today's number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.
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Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
Humanity's newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.