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Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?
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These 10 best practices can help organizations develop high-quality and engaging training videos for employees.
Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
There are many ways asynchronous learning benefits both individuals and organizations, from learner autonomy to cost savings.
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.
Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.
It’s not about leaves in tall trees.
There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.
We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.
There are plenty of alternatives to spending a fortune on employee training programs. These 10 options are a great place to start.
Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.
Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.
What do ghosts and anomalous galaxy rotation rates have in common? Some sci-fi enthusiasts believe the answer involves “parallel universes.”
“Upon emergence, these patients are sincerely unsure what was reality and what was a ‘dream.'”
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?
AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
The corporate unicorn was yesterday — now we should consider the wisdom of black and white stripes.
Much like energy and nutrients flow in a continuous cycle between the elements of a natural ecosystem, a free flow of knowledge fuels the growth of a learning ecosystem.
Frustrating failures sometimes lead to great breakthroughs.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.