For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
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Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
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Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
The results of a recent study counter some common claims found in anti-immigration narratives.
“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”
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After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
In Georgia, it's becoming less common to pronounce words like "prize" as "prahz."
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
You've certainly seen the paintings — but they don't depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.
How do fascist leaders take hold? Lying to a whole nation, and having them believe you, is just one tenth of it.
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Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
It has been 50 years since an American has claimed the title of World Chess Champion. Will it ever happen again?
Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.
Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?
Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
What is Captain America doing in ancient Mesopotamia?
Society incorrectly blamed a "population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.