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From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
Individuals and organizations can maintain a strong and enduring identity by repeatedly remaking themselves.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Can laboratories become more humane, or is it time to end animal research altogether?
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
The poisoned candy legend is just one way that American fears manifested: as an easily understood threat to innocence.
Australian parrots have worked out how to open trash bins, and the trick is spreading across Sydney.
The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
From 1974 to 1978, the chimps of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania were at war with each other, the first time conservationists saw chimps engage in calculated, cold-blooded killing.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.