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Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.

Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.

With the right prompts, large language models can produce quality writing — and make us question the limits of human creativity.

“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen.

Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.

Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

A Cornell Health physician has blended rap and medicine to better educate kids on coronavirus guidelines.

Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.

Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.

A strange object found in the desert has prompted worldwide speculation.

What can ‘behaviorism’ teach us about ourselves?

Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what’s missing.

Your television may soon get a serious upgrade.

We cannot give in to fear, but we cannot be reckless when the lives and health of so many are at stake. There is a novel infectious disease that is currently […]

Average waiting time for hitchhikers in Ireland: Less than 30 minutes. In southern Spain: More than 90 minutes.

Senator John Sidney McCain III, who died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018 at the age of 81, is lying in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol.

The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?

In honor of St. Patrick’s day and Women’s History Month, we present 10 Irish American women who changed the world in their own way.

America’s greatest international impact since World War 2 has been through its diplomacy, not its wars.

A massive solar project has just been completed, and its specs are impressive.

Here are some of the best books on the rich history, rabid speculations and intriguing fictionalized world of artificial intelligence.

From religion to democrats to… Whole Foods. Did you make the cut? 

Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]

The Barnes Foundation’s current exhibition, Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things, epitomizes the business buzz phrase “disruptive innovation” like few other museum shows (which I wrote about here). Disrupt or die, the thinking goes. Old orders must make way for new. Coincidentally, as the Barnes Foundation, home of Dr. Albert Barnes’ meticulously and idiosyncratically ordered collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces left just so since his death in 1951, invites outsider artists to question and challenge Dr. Barnes’ old order, it also publishes their own insider’s critical “warts and all” assessment of Dr. Barnes’ relationship to African art and African-Americans. In African Art in the Barnes Foundation: The Triumph of L’Art nègre and the Harlem Renaissance, scholar Christa Clarke reassesses Dr. Barnes intentions and results in his building of the first great African art collection in America. “More than just formal accents to modernist paintings and other Western art in the collection,” Clarke argues, “African art deserves to be seen as central to the aesthetic mission and progressive vision that was at the very heart of the Barnes Foundation.”

If you ever loved something most people didn’t understand, you’ll get it. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a […]

What is Punk? Punk isn’t about mohawks or studded leather, says Henry Rollins – it’s about resistance to tyranny in any form. How Art Can Change Society, with Sarah Lewis Sarah […]

Nobody goes to a baseball game to watch the umpires, so why would someone go to a museum to see an exhibition dedicated to an art critic—one of those arbiters […]