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It’s not as black and white, left brain/right brain as the theories of yore.
Scientists confirmed the discovery of four new elements.
If you’re the kind of person who chronically abandons New Year’s resolutions, try “temptation bundling” in 2016.
A couple Big Think experts take the anxiety out of eating by dishing some digestible advice.
These cosmic optical illusions are more common than you think. “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.” –Ani DiFranco If […]
The immersive nature of virtual reality is worrying. We need to fully understand the path we’re headed down as new technologies are seemingly recreating our physical, kinetic lives.
What we can see extends for 46.1 billion light years in all directions today. So how big was it at birth? “They say it all started out with a big bang. […]
From the Milky Way’s perspective, there are hundreds of galaxies visible with even a small telescope. But from this galaxy’s location? Zero. “If the expansion of the space of the […]
Many who make New Year’s resolutions of the “less vice, more virtue” variety might benefit from some background on the history and logic of certain skills that flourishing depends on.
Alan Watts recognized that money was only an abstract idea compared to actual wealth. Will we ever learn the same?
A discovery that never would have happened with robots instead of humans. “It’s like trying to describe what you feel when you’re standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or […]
Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.
Scientists work on it, it’s consistent with science, and it hopes to be the biggest scientific breakthrough of all. But it’s missing one key ingredient. “As of now, string theorists […]
We know the Standard Model isn’t all there is. So why haven’t we found a single particle outside of it? “I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I […]
Hello Barbie, the new interactive doll from Mattel, has some security flaws. As the Internet of Things becomes a reality, manufacturers must make security a priority.
They cannot thrive in the current ecosystem.
Spirals and ellipticals rule the Universe, but every so often, something far more intricate shows up. “For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature […]
If energy is always conserved, then what “gains” the energy that photons lose as the Universe expands? “…in every kind of chemical change no loss of matter occurs […] in all […]
“Humans are allergic to change,” Grace Hopper once said. “They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”
Living longer, but worrying more. Why?
How does he deliver presents to hundreds of millions of households in just one night? With physics, of course! “Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to […]
The roots of the word “Christmas” express two kinds of liberation (of, and from, the masses) with some shortening. Much that matters is hidden in the unsung history of words, and their translations… there’s the rub…
If there is a quantum theory of gravity, is String Theory the only game in town? “I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to […]
At some point, our antibiotics are going to stop working. Are drug-resistant bacteria winning?
New research suggests that positive interactions between strangers create empathy where it wasn’t before.
We all make small mistakes, but sometimes journalists report the complete and utter opposite of what a study really found.
Despite all those weeks sunning themselves and enjoying breaks from work, the French are among the most productive workers in the world. Americans could be, too.