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Researchers outfitted him with a system that filtered out electrical signals through an algorithm to isolate brain waves dealing with leg movement.
Our sexual attitudes are the exception that proves the rule.
If you remove the media microscope, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has promise but should have more “with Trevor Noah.”
It’s not that doing good is bad. Rather we get uncomfortable around those who are more altruistic than ourselves.
When was the last time you could talk about a show everyone had seen?
In an attempt to be original, to stand out amongst the almost 300 million other selfies on Instagram, we actually fade into the background. We become mundane. Photos are no longer about remembering an event; they’re about displaying. They’re about showing the world who we are, who we wish to be. And it’s damaging our ability to remember.
The pursuit of transcendent experiences will become a connoisseur art when we’re all unemployed.
Innovation isn’t always the result of invention and discovery. Sometimes the best way to innovate is to rethink something old.
Samsung is moving virtual reality out of the developer market and into the hands of consumers.
Scientists are looking at increasingly risky ways of combating climate change.
The man with “the hardest job in Washington” abruptly announced his resignation the day after fulfilling his personal dream: hosting a sitting pope in Congress.
Two British economists argue that the plummeting birth rate combined with increased life expectancy worldwide will cause a labor shortage in the upcoming decades.
This development could lead to resources that may benefit future expeditions.
In a press conference this morning at 11:30 am Eastern time, NASA scientists confirmed the presence of liquid water on Mars.
Astrophysicists contemplate whether “mirror” dark matter causes cancer.
Why take a picture of something you can just as easily Google?
NASA’s Dawn Mission has finally photographed the full world at full resolution. Come see it! “Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If […]
Words of wisdom from Simone de Beauvoir: “The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.”
Words of Wisdom from Cuban national hero José Martí: “Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think, and to speak without hypocrisy. … A man who obeys a bad government is not an honest man.”
Words of wisdom from FDR: “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
At 104 years old, Grace Brett’s “yarn-bombing” of numerous towns in Scotland is a sight the whole world should see. “Some people become vandals because they want to make the […]
Finding direct links between Buddhism and Western philosophy is a difficult task, but they do play out in strange loops.
Over 700 pilgrims were killed by a stampede en route to Mecca. Why do some choose to celebrate such tragedies?
Even though we can get better, faster, cheaper products elsewhere, the market always goes with Apple.
Before he “jumped ship to the useless, unemployable arts”, young Salman wanted to be a physicist. This and more on Big Think’s weekly podcast, Think Again.
There were two periods of exponential expansion in the Universe: one today and one long ago. Are they related? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. […]
Their hyper-repetitive patterns mean video games vastly outgun older emotech… like movies, or novels. Some emotech helps you be more human. Some reduces your “humanity.” We shape our emotech, and then it shape us.
Despite its many weaknesses, the U.N. has been successful in one of its main pursuits: linking the countries of the world in a way that promotes peace. Could a similar model work for religion?
