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New techniques in cryogenics may fundamentally affect the identity of the revived.
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Scientists have been able to render echolocation data to show what a dolphin sees.
Big Think is proud to partner with the 92nd Street Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival to bring you an in-depth look at the many qualities and characteristics of genius.
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Researchers have discovered that the apps you have installed on your phone can predict your age, income, gender, and marital status.
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“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.”
Learning how to code will get you a job and a salary. More importantly, it allows you the freedom of understanding that you can solve problems that seem overwhelming.
The sender didn’t have a name nor an address for his letter. So he drew a map instead.
A recent study out of Australia has crunched data over a 29-year timespan and found no correlation between cellphone usage and brain cancer. Hooray!
These are some of the strangest, most mysterious books ever written.
WhatsApp has joined Telegram, TextSecure, and many other secure messaging apps, enabling end-to-end encryption when sending texts and multimedia messages. An encrypted messenger has become the one of the most popular ways to communicate.
This is what anonymous browsing looks like.
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Actor Lon Chaney was the movies’ original “Man of a Thousand Faces.” Who is the man (or woman) of a thousand faces today?
Float tanks are increasing in popularity due to their role in stress reduction and even altered states of consciousness.
We have electric charges and currents in electromagnetism, so why not magnetic ones, too? “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is […]
Wonder how your brain makes space for new memories? Scientists at Oxford just discovered how.
Closing in on 35 years since HIV was first discovered, medical science is now starting to see the possibility of a day when HIV will be curable. In fact, new research has developed several possible strategies which could eliminate the virus from the body. But challenges remain.
A mysterious, unidentifed, low-frequency hum as been baffling people for years.
A learning collaboration between Pixar and Khan Academy helps aspiring animators familiarize themselves with the basics of the craft. The free course is called Pixar in A Box.
The strain of peering into our mobile phones and tablets is causing serious vision problems.
Two Rice University students have created “TrumpScript,” a programming language Donald Trump would approve of.
Jose Carlos Norte has found a way to fingerprint Tor users and track them based on their mouse movements. However, the exploit can only be used if JavaScript is enabled in the browser.