Renowned psychologist and emotion-guru Paul Ekman describes how introducing conscious awareness to facial expressions can help one override and control their emotions.
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The next wave of terrorist attacks may be fueled by explosives surgically implanted inside the bodies of suicide bombers.
Reports of hearing meteors as they passed overheard were largely dismissed until about 20 years ago, when a scientist proved that very low-frequency radio waves could be picked up by certain objects, such as wire-rimmed glasses.
To coincide with the Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” series, Nova Southeastern University has launched a Web site that allows visitors to follow specially-tagged sharks as they swim around the world.
Find out how as we chat LIVE with Robert Greene at 1:30 PM Eastern on 8/7/2013
An engineer has developed a process that will produce ammonia more cleanly and possibly in enough amounts to provide an alternative energy source.
The video below gives us a microscopic view of an event that is happening with great frequency this month: a mosquito is eating human for dinner.
The Sun’s magnetic field will flip in three to four months, an event that will have ripple effects across the Solar System, that’s detectable by even the far-away Voyager probes at the doorstep of interstellar space.
If consumers thought about the economics of Restaurant Week, they might prefer to stay away.
While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]
In our material, measurable world, infinity is never a real, physical quantity; it is only an abstraction.
A new study warns that the rock that landed near Chelyabinsk in February may be part of a larger group of asteroid remnants, all with orbits that could potentially lead them to Earth.
The government announced the closing of the country’s two public zoos in July, with many of their residents moving to private centers. However, a separate law passed in December means those centers don’t have a lot of vacancies.
An Australian man’s newly-launched campaign is the latest effort to address the phenomenon of people paying more attention to their phone than to other people around them.
Lee Smolin posits the idea that new universes are born from parent universes through the mechanism of black holes.
Responding to U.S. strikes and personnel evacuations in Yemen, Big Think Waq al-Waq blogger Gregory Johnsen asks a simple question: why?
Galileo must have developed “a new theory of optics as revolutionary as the device itself.” This theory he kept secret.
As of today (Aug. 6), the site’s Art Store offers over 40,000 works of original and limited-edition art from more than 150 galleries and dealers. Prices range from hundreds of dollars to millions of dollars.
If the Nobel committee has the guts, it has been argued, it could deliver “a smackdown to the security state.”
The NOAA visualization below depicts a giant plume of dust moving off the coast of Africa.
Or, more specifically, stomach complaints: nEmesis monitors diners’ Twitter accounts for certain words that might indicate a potential food poisoning issue. Tests showed its findings closely matched those of health inspectors.
Curiosity’s landing on Mars – a marvel of 21st century engineering – was in and of itself probably the rover’s greatest feat to date.
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.