Curiosity’s landing on Mars – a marvel of 21st century engineering – was in and of itself probably the rover’s greatest feat to date.
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Everyone should be aware that a multitude of men are either chemically or surgically castrated for a variety of reasons in contemporary Western society.
Thomas Jefferson is known as the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the articulator of the separation of church and state. These high profile accomplishments tend to overshadow his […]
A team from Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications has created a system that creates an interactive surface from a tub of opaque water, basically “[taking] immersive entertainment to a whole new level.”
A Finnish team made crowdsourcing a literal public affair by setting up large touchscreens in busy areas and watching passersby as they performed basic research tasks with them. The results were on par with those of paid online volunteers.
It’s the most natural thing in the world – for an American parent especially – to praise a child for her intelligence or talent, rather than for how hard she […]
As a marine biologist points out, upwards of 70% of Discoveries viewers fell for the ruse and now believe that Megalodon isn’t extinct.
The first lab-made burger has been dubbed by some the Frankenburger. It has also been dubbed the ‘Googleburger,’ since Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, funded the $330,000 experiment as a potentially transformative project for the benefit of humanity.
As subscribers to Big Think’s YouTube channel know, we are proud participants this week in the first ever YouTube Geek Week, which is showcasing new videos, creative collaborations and all things geek through August 10.
Five guidelines for navigating the Internet from the great 19th-century liberal individualist.
Leo Tolstoy was a great Russian novelist and essayist and philosopher and crazy person, as well as an idea entrepreneur in his own way.
The more complex challenge you have, the more relationship matters, the depth of the relationship between the teachers and student.
With global population still on the march, and developing economies like India and China brining potentially billions more drivers onto the roads, demand for oil as a source of energy may actually decline in the years ahead.
Despite recent failures in Egypt and Turkey, two of the world’s three most populous countries of Islam’s core, political parties wishing to legislate Islamic value may still stand a chance.
Faced with a modernizing society and subsequent falling birthrate, the South Korean government is taking unusual steps to encourage its younger citizens to link up, get married, and have children.
This time-lapse video, recorded by the Messenger spacecraft en route to Mercury, shows what it looks like to say goodbye to planet Earth.
While the US has steadily worked to build coalitions of the willing, China’s allies often depend on aligning economic interest which can change direction with the wind.
To encourage higher birthrates and allow parents to leave the house in search of work, Germany has promised that all families will have ready access to daycare services.
While it seems plausible that one or both of Christie and Paul will run for president in 2016, their prospects for success are less significant than the philosophy each man represents.
Originally posted at http://ethollis.tumblr.com Guest post by Ericka Hollis Words are powerful. We can choose to speak or read words that inspire, challenge, and excite us or others; or we […]
The long, slow process of towards adult lactose tolerance started some time after the last ice age.
When faced with the classical risk dilemma—receive small gains now versus a big gain later—men and women have different ways of evaluating what is the best course of action.
Every 13 seconds someone in the U.S.A. gets divorced, which is the second most stressful event in an adult’s life, costing at average between $15,000 – $20,000. Wevorce is a service […]
Studies have repeatedly shown that people who set aside time to pray are generally healthier and recover from illness more quickly than those who don’t. Even atheists who pray experience an uptick in health.
Jim Morrison and The Doors sang “Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.” Sorry, that’s not enough. In order to reduce your risk of being […]
One Big Think editor has taken a vacation from idea-hunting (for the moment at least), and nonetheless stumbled upon a big idea, pictured above. Can you name the big idea?
The humanoid robot, named Kirobo, is scheduled to blast into space around sunrise from an island off southern Japan on board a supply ship bound for the International Space Station.
Saturn, Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter will all be visible in the August night skies, as will the annual Perseid meteors. A number of nebulas will also be easy to find among the constellations.
A brain-to-brain interface between a human and a rat enables a human to control the rat’s tail simply by thinking.
What does this picture mean to you, on the occasion of the president’s 52nd birthday?