This spectacular event occurs every year when the Moon nears the farthest point from the Earth making it appear too small to cover the sun, creating a ring of fire effect.
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The constant posture of disbelief of the current is what makes science great.
Here’s what F. Scott Fitzgerald thought about his classic American novel “The Great Gatsby.”
Big Think Mentor connects world-class mentors with a global community of smart, driven users to teach the habits of mind and people skills we need to live happier, healthier, more productive lives.
Mary Roach takes us on a tour through the alimentary canal to explain our biology from the perspective of bacteria.
Seventeen-year-old Jennie Lamere’s Twivo beat out the competitors to claim “Best in Show” at a recent TVNext hackathon.
Mastery is accessible, in fact, much more so today than ever before due to the explosion of the information economy.
Not just clean, but cheap: Researchers in India say that for less than US$3 per year, a rural family could have at least 10 liters of safe water each day using their device.
Stephen Hawking, who suffers from motor neurone disease, uses Israeli technology as part of a computer system that helps him function and communicate.
The Eidos goggles and mask isolate and amplify certain inputs so that, for example, someone standing at the back of a crowded auditorium can hear a speaker as clearly as if they were sitting in the front.
Where did America’s workers go? The future of the American economy may hinge on the answer. The US economy added 165,000 new jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell […]
While additional chatter “dilutes the impact of the critic,” Brantley says “I don’t think it eliminates the necessity of them.”
Spacewarps.org is the newest project requesting public assistance with finding unusual astronomical objects: in this case, systems containing massive galaxies that bend light around them.
Of all of the applications for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, food tends to be the most universally popular.
New research breathes life into an earlier theory about a possible connection between cosmic rays and the triggering of lightning during thunderstorms.
Digital cuisine is something that everybody gets excited about, and for good reason.
The power to make living creatures is something that we humans, and quite rightly so, tend to hold sacred.
According to NASA officials and other experts, meeting President Barack Obama’s directive will require clearing some significant technological hurdles.
Today’s “blacksmith” is a skilled designer/3-D Printer with highly developed skills in CAD design who is able to help locals prototype and create custom products that they concept for various uses.
Check out “the fairest system for payment of carriage or anything by air”. According to Samoa Air, they are the first airline in the world which charges you by the […]
“None of my videos have any common tie to them,” says Brooke Candy, a rapper who has offered her picks of YouTube as part of an original MOCAtv series called “YouTube Curated By.”
While recent focus has been on finding an Earth-like exoplanet in a system’s “Goldilocks zone,” one astrophysicist suggests that that zone might be made wider by taking other atmospheric conditions, such as greenhouse gas amounts, into account.
A group of hobbyists has embarked on a project that involves inserting synthetic DNA into plants to turn them into light sources. Needless to say, environmentalists are concerned.
Even as the U.S. East Coast braces for the arrival of the bizarre infestation of cicadas that happens with clockwork precision every 17 years, we’re already seeing an infestation of […]
How will the Singularity impact economic productivity?
Today’s smart phones are much more than phones—they are powerful, networked multimedia computers, and over the next 10 years they’ll get far more advanced. As a result, mobility is transforming […]
R.R. Reno, quite an astute conservative public intellectual, claims that those with eyes to see know that the big news these days is the global victory of capitalism. I’m not […]
With a new ad campaign, the children’s charity may be one of the first of its kind to openly challenge social media participants.
By some accounts, last year’s move of the Barnes Foundation from its original home to the new location on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway marked the last stroke in the fall […]
Putting children on drugs does nothing to change the conditions that derail their development in the first place.