An analogy explains the greater fool theory: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away; you just have to run faster than the other guy.
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Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
Far from being inappropriate, many of the most controversial acceptance speeches highlighted important issues in the film industry.
“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
It could evolve, strengthen, decay, or not be alone. Our known Universe contains matter, radiation, and dark energy. While matter (both normal and dark) and radiation become less dense as […]
In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.
A new study sheds light on the final supernovae of the Universe.
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 […]
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
Unlike most articles that are titled with a question, the answer isn’t automatically “no.” Announced on January 6, 2020, NASA’s TESS mission has just discovered its first Earth-sized, habitable zone […]
As it turns out, hacking an election isn't as hard as you'd think.
Increasing numbers of seniors need help with basic tasks. It doesn't have to be that way.
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
From outside a black hole, all masses take an infinite amount of time to cross the event horizon. How, then, can black holes grow? Every Milky Way-sized galaxy should contain hundreds […]
We know a lot about what else is out there, but we still don’t know everything. In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at […]
A new study discovered that lack of purpose leads to earlier death.
How the story of a statistics student being late to class became the inspiration for the protagonist of Good Will Hunting.
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
It's safe to say not everyone was immediately impressed.
After Kepler but before James Webb, TESS is preparing astronomers for the coming exoplanet revolution. There are always new discoveries and achievements occurring in science, and certain fields have experienced […]
It’s the ultimate way to go… and yet, it still isn’t what you’d expect. There are many terrifying ways that the Universe can destroy something. In space, if you tried to […]
The killer whale involved in the incident, Tilikum, has been involved in three deaths of humans while in captivity.
If a star spins and then collapses, what happens to its angular momentum? The most common way to form a black hole in the Universe is to have a massive […]
We’ve put so much together about the Universe. Could it all come tumbling down? We’re always on the lookout for the next big thing, and even our best guesswork is often […]
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Jordan Peterson is one of the most controversial public figures in recent years. Here's a recap of some of his ideas.
Of all the experiments performed and measurements made involving fundamental particles, none has ever violated the Standard Model. Until now. If there’s one thing you can count on physicists for, it’s […]
There’s no escaping its vast power and utility for the human enterprise. Stories, great tales, and songs have all been written about the all-mighty dollar. Here's 10 documentaries that we think you'll enjoy.
It took the Universe 9.2 billion years to create the Earth, and another 4 billion for complex life. Could we have gotten there faster? The story of how the Universe came […]