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The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.
A rare, ultra-diffuse galaxy is full of stars and not much else. Here’s how to make sense of it. One of the greatest puzzles in the entire Universe is the dark […]
A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends’ past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”
Quoth the parrot — “Squawk! Nevermore.”
Executive coach Alisa Cohn, in her Big Think+ video, “Understand Ownership and Accountability: What It Means to Be In Charge When Things Go Wrong,” uses her experience with a company […]
Sometimes doing nothing means everything.
A new study from Oregon State University makes it clear: it’s you.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
The ability to instantaneously jump from one location in space to another clearly violates the laws of physics. Or does it? There are a few rules in the Universe that seem […]
In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
Rwanda is pioneering the regulation and use of drones – such as delivering blood
You can use these to get ahead, no matter your age.
Legislators push to keep cursive in their schools’ curricula, but experts seem split as to whether it’s necessary.
A wealthy team doesn’t automatically make for a successful team.
Buddhism and Western science converge on a number of ideas.
Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.
With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]
Even some teachers suffer from anxiety about math.
The legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led Soviet secret police in the “Red Terror,” still confounds Russia.
Ten of the most sandbagging, red-herring, and effective logical fallacies.
Research by neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.
Our attention is more than just a resource. It is an experience.
Is it “perverseness,” the “death drive,” or something else?
It’s up to us humans to re-humanize our world. An economy that prioritizes growth and profits over humanity has led to digital platforms that “strip the topsoil” of human behavior, whole industries, and the planet, giving less and less back. And only we can save us.
If everything in nature is made of quantum fields at its core, how do we wind up with particles at all? What is our Universe made out of? At a fundamental […]
A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.