First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.
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Now that we’ve seen our first one, we want more, and we want them better. Here’s how to get there. To resolve any astronomical object, you must achieve resolutions superior to […]
Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
The exploding popularity of the keto diet puts a less used veggie into the spotlight.
A new paper suggests past research on MDMA often overestimated the dangers of the drug because the studies examined heavy users, not average ones.
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It doesn’t matter what’s popular, logical, or intuitive. What matters is what you can observe and measure. Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would […]
Consciousness expert Michael Graziano on what, if anything, makes us uniquely human.
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Our Sun will someday run out of fuel. Here’s what it will look like when that happens. The fate of our Sun is unambiguous, determined solely by its mass. If all […]
From 4 billion miles away, it says a lot about the meaning of time.
A new paper in Nature adds urgency to the fight against climate change.
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
The first list of antidepressant food scores restructures the “standard” American diet.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
The visible light portion of the spectrum is tiny compared to the whole thing. Here’s what we’re missing. When you look at the Milky Way in visible light, you might see […]
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
We know a lot about what else is out there, but we still don’t know everything. In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at […]
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
Canadians who’ve been caught with 30 grams of marijuana or less will soon be able to request those charges to be expunged.
Americans lost $116.9 billion gambling in 2016.
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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You might say members of the Intellectual Dark Web don’t fit in. They might say, “exactly.”
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The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
The other great spiral galaxy in the local group demonstrates why we’re #2, even in our own backyard. The Milky Way is our cosmic home, containing hundreds of billions of […]
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From newborn planets to entire galaxies, we’re seeing the Universe as never before. The idea of a modern telescope is simple: collect light from a distant object, at high resolution, and […]
It’s safe to say not everyone was immediately impressed.