Sleep psychologist Shelby Harris reviews ideas about what dreams may be.
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We’re looking back in time when we look across the light years, so what’s different between what we see and what’s really there? “I saw a star explode and send out […]
Are life-saving drugs no different than milk or widgets? Should we treat everything on earth as a profit source? That way mechanized madness lies, whereby “your money or your life” is somehow seen as an acceptable business plan.
North Korea announces a new on-demand video service for its citizens.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, Alison Gopnik, one of the world’s foremost experts on child cognition, learning, and development, and host Jason Gots discuss play, artificial intelligence, and the trouble with “parenting” as a verb.
Or can moving at relativistic speeds through a general relativistic Universe change everything? “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can […]
According to letter sent to income college freshmen, the University of Chicago will not use trigger warnings or act as a safe intellectual space for students.
Advances in our understanding of cognitive processes are proving tremendous. When it comes to understanding consciousness, you might say the ghost in the machine is a chemical engineer.
Plants can even ward off invaders through “Earth’s natural internet.”
Authorities in France and Scotland are taking very different approaches to Islamic dress in their societies.
A small village in western Minnesota has just re-elected a dog as their mayor for his third term.
There’s a big gap between Helium and Carbon. Come find out why! “And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,And chlorine, cobalt, carbon, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.These are the […]
The Pokemon Go craze is finally reaching an equilibrium. The game had a stellar run while it lasted, but over the last few weeks Pokemon Go has seen a steady drop-off in daily active users (DAUs).
NASA will be putting most of the research it funds online for free in policy of open access to science.
An intriguing new study inspires a psychotherapist to blame strict parents for creating little liars. But is she right?
We are only just beginning to understand how easy access to information is reshaping how we think.
Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals his political and religious views in an amusing fight with a conservative radio host.
Is virtual reality the future of gaming? They might be, if controllers like this are anything to go by.
One graph claims to show the inverting relationship between inequality and opportunity. The Great Gatsby Curve sheds light on one of the key issues of our time.
A solution to the problem of internet trolls may evolve that will protect us from them, but also from the free exchange of ideas.
“Eureka!” is not always as powerful as “that’s what I thought!” “Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. […]
The saying in coding goes: if you have to do a job more than once, automate the task. Bots will one day unburden you from these tasks.
Pascal’s Wager has been betted on for three-and-a-half centuries. Was he asking the right question?
What are the arguments in favor of comprehensive immigration restrictions, what relevant ethical claims are political discourses obscuring, and how has German hip-hop formed as a result?
NASA tests the engine for the most powerful rocket ever built, designed for deep-space missions.
China’s new satellite is going to attempt to create uncrackable encryption using quantum mechanics.
How they get so big so fast is a mystery. Could “direct collapse” be the solution we’re seeking? “For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most […]
Move over, cigarettes: ramen is the new king of prison currency. A new study for the American Sociological Association found that inmates are using the cheap food as currency.
Nikola Tesla predicted drones, but also predicted their awesome power would unite us all. So far, the only weapon to do that was the Atomic Bomb.
A recent study by researchers from Oxford and Cornell University examines the relationship between trust and moral principles.