Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.
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The university will also offer partial financial aid to middle-income students.
New research compares the roles and political clout of royal women in eight societies spanning five continents and more than 4,000 years.
Studies on stress and memory have often given conflicting results.
“We live in an age in which there is too much excessive information, less knowledge, and very, very little wisdom.” Elif Shafak has faced trial and investigation in her native Turkey for giving voice to the voiceless in her novels. We talk about her book THREE DAUGHTERS OF EVE and the fight for nuance in a world of binaries.
General Relativity has nothing to do with light or electromagnetism at all. So how to gravitational waves know to travel at the speed of light? There are two fundamental classes of […]
We’re too afraid to voice our complaints, and for good reason — it often doesn’t go well.
Study finds that carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences.
Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
Meet Deinococcus radioduranst, the world’s toughest bacteria.
What will it take to conquer our immemorial space dream?
The Portal promises to be a deep dive into the possible.
A new study found a positive association between sugary drinks and cancer.
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
Recently, Tron appears to have been at the center of the latest fake news scandal to hit the crypto world. It started on July 8, after Twitter user Hayden Otto […]
We don’t perceive time in an objective fashion; instead, the brain interprets time in a complex and amorphous way.
Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.
The laws of physics are not time-reversal invariant. Here’s how we know. No matter when, where, or what you are in the Universe, you experience time in only one direction: forwards. […]
A new study lays out a green (very green), data-driven plan to capture much of our atmosphere’s carbon pool.
The museum’s important call to document future history.
The global financial system is under an increasing amount of pressure to get with the times and evolve to the needs of its customers. Crises like the 2008 housing bubble’s […]
A new book from the former editor of El Mundo describes a culture of corruption in Spain’s press. In exchange for favorable coverage of politicians and corporations, bribes.
Conspiracy theories about the event dating back to the 1970s are in fact more popular than ever.
From explosions to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics. This Thursday, July 4, 2019, is remarkable for a number of reasons. It happens to […]
The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.
If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?
It’s the first major insurance company with operations in the U.S. to move away from coal.
One report claims the trade is better pay for fewer jobs over all. Other reports disagree.
The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.