It’s the ‘nightmare scenario’ for some. But for Sabine Hossenfelder, it might be a dream come true. This article was authored by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in […]
All Articles
Sebastian Junger takes a big-picture look at depression, PTSD, and the importance of the tribe in his new book.
The atmosphere is on the mend, according to an article published in Science. It took almost 30 years for the ban on ozone-depleting substances to work and scientists are saying the ozone could be completely healed by the middle of the century.
Combined with Hubble, it creates our longest-baseline view. “It used to be that Pluto was a misfit. Now it turns out that Earth is the misfit. Most planets in the […]
Tesla announced it’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was involved in its first deadly crash on May 7, 2016. This marks the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. However, this tragedy should not hinder progress.
Emotional hacking is real with implications toward mental health. What if this got into the wrong hands? We could be joyously enslaved without the emotional countenance to fight back.
A list debunking commonly believed falsehoods, misconceptions and just bad ideas.
The conflict between faiths is one good reason to doubt God’s existence.
There’s a small rock orbiting our planet more distant than the Moon we know. Does that mean we have two Moons? “You can be the Moon and still be jealous of […]
Most amusement parks like Disney and Six Flags pride themselves on being family friendly attractions. These parks do not.
An expansive new study makes clear the extent of the problem and the importance of parents in avoiding teen drug use.
Playing many different characters, Tony and Obie award-winner Sarah Jones responds to surprise “big ideas” in Think Again podcast’s first ever live show at NYC Podfest
It’s more than a conclusion that most scientists agree on; it’s the basis for all the science we do now! “Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned […]
Wherein moral conundrums could determine the fate of millions — and how a psychopath might respond to them.
In Queer Virtue, gay Episcopal priest Elizabeth M. Edman argues for a new take on this old religion.
Demagoguery, colonizing Mars, and the perpetual pendulum of party politics. Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on the Think Again podcast
Australian researchers have found that fiber can help lessen the reaction to food allergies, and even cure a person of them.
Big Think teams up with Hyper, a new premium video app that curates 10 videos each day, with no buffering or data depletion.
Henry Rollins talks about how fear of winding up starting in The America drove his to his remarkable career.
The massive black holes that formed LIGO’s first event were a surprise, and then a mystery. Here’s the long-awaited solution! “Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a […]
Michio Kaku tells the story of one super-scary mistake in physics and reminds us how hard it is to get science right.
Neil deGrasse Tyson proposed an ideal form of government and caused a viral debate.
The U.K. has voted to leave the European Union, but here are the scenarios in which it stays in.
A new method has been shown effective in halting, even reversing Alzheimer’s in 10 early-stage patients.
The gun industry is in the business of selling its products. Exploiting our belief system is part of its corporate model.
And the wisdom from an exclusive interview with Larry Niven. Ever since humanity had the thought that the distant, twinkling stars might be Suns like our own, with their own planetary […]
Now that LIGO’s found two pairs of merging black holes, what does the future hold? “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to […]
Many of our best U.S presidents qualify as psychopaths, while Hitler doesn’t.
The New York Times claimed that aliens must have existed at some point. But science is less certain. “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve […]
Plato wasn’t worried that democracy tended to lead to Donald Trump-style tyranny (despite what Andrew Sullivan claims). Here’s what he was really concerned about.