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The Future

“Deadbots” can speak for you after your death

No ouija board required.

Neuropsych

Pupil size surprisingly linked to differences in intelligence

Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.

Starts With A Bang

No, The Universe Is Not Purely Mathematical In Nature

Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]

Technology & Innovation

What Will Your City Look Like in 1,000 Years? Jonathon Keats’ Millennium Camera

Thanks to Big Think’s favorite experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will have a photographic record of how Tempe, Arizona, in 3015 ended up that way.

Culture & Religion

Why All Presidents Dress Like Flight Attendants

That Delphic oracle of style, Simon Doonan, author of the outrageously funny Gay Men Dont Get Fat, says fashion and politics don't mix in a democracy.

Culture & Religion

Henry Rollins’ Letters to a Young American: Do it Yourself

Henry Rollins shares the DIY philosophy he learned from Abraham Lincoln and has always tried to follow.

Guest Thinkers

WAKE UP AND DREAM

BY JASON SILVA “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” –Alphonse de Lamartine, French romantic poet. PART I: DREAMING WITH […]

Guest Thinkers

An Interview with the Director of the Imaginary Foundation

BY JASON SILVA The Imaginary Foundation says “Great art expands the way we see—it uplifts the human spirit from the barbaric and thrusts it toward the numinous.” – An Interview […]