Much talk about “the rich” and inequality ignores two key points. 1) Not all inequality is equally bad. 2) The rich are mostly as replaceable as you.
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A new experimental drug can theoretically take out any virus, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
Asgardia, an unprecedented space-based nation state, is proposed by an international team of scientists and businessmen.
Researchers video chimpanzee mothers teaching their kids how to use tools.
Physicists create a structure that breaks the symmetry of time.
If we can’t even witness the birth of our Solar System and planet, how can we claim to see the birth of the Universe? “There have to be moments when […]
Mark Zuckerberg insists the future of virtual reality will put “people first.” The development trajectory of the technology tells another story.
Already a euthanasia pioneer, being the first to legalize it in 2002, the Netherlands may allow for the assisted suicide of older people who feel as if they’ve “completed life”.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. In this extra feisty episode of Think Again – A Big Think Podcast, actor and author William Shatner and host Jason Gots take sides on whether or not it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.
Though the logic of the Nobel committee is pretty easy to glean when it comes to the sciences, in other, less-defined categories, it surprises on a fairly regular basis.
Before the Big Bang… after the Big Freeze… will everything look the same? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as […]
Your ring-to-index finger ratio can tell a lot about what you’re good at and even what mental disorders you are prone to.
If Will Allen’s documentary, Holy Hell, teaches us one thing, it’s that there’s no easy answer.
Who was the father of American photojournalism? Here’s a look at the Civil War work of Mathew Brady.
A brain-computer music interface system allows four patients to compose their own string quartet.
Some patients who went through gender reassignment surgery reported feeling just as out of place. A few were even suicidal.
Not faster than 299,792,458 m/s, but faster than light moves through anything other than vacuum! “You are both fools. You cannot see thoughts, or angels. One is an abstract, the other […]
A new study from Cornell University shows how metaphors influence our ability to be impressed by genius and uncovers a gender hook – it seems we prefer to conceive of male genius as an exciting idea explosion, and female genius as a long, hard labor of hard work.
Entrepreneurs share enormous amounts of time together, and develop a unique brand of intimacy, says relationship expert Esther Perel.
Our inherent response mechanisms were programmed long ago; implicit biases are reactionary, volatile, largely under the radar of conscious awareness. They do not imply blanket racism.
Bees help pollenate much of our crops. Without them, the food supply is doomed.
An explanation of why clean coal is just fiction, or at best a climate-change denier’s fantasy.
As mankind raises its eyes to Mars and asks, “How do we get there?”, we might need to ask, “Should we go?”. Carl Sagan said we may not be entitled to visit a potentially inhabited planet.
How do we make fair contracts? These guys figured it out, and their work has implications in ethical and business questions about companies like Enron and privatized prisons.
If only men would vote, Trump would be the next president. If only women voted, Clinton would win by an even bigger landslide.
We might have been spared the worst of Hurricane Matthew, but the underlying science is informative at any time! “She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to […]
Will this EU power be the first to prove that a modern, industrialized nation can make major shifts towards cleaner, greener energy without catastrophe?
Find a penny, pick it up, all year long, you’ll have that f*cking penny. There is a mounting consensus that the US should retire its tiniest coin.
As nine states consider legalization or medical use in November, anti-marijuana advocates are relying on old and false claims.
Instead of an autoimmune disorder, scientists now believe a conspiracy of pathogens cause it.