The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
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Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.
The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our […]
A lifelong fan on why she’s drawn to the magnificent gas giant.
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A volcano in California is a hot spot for conspiracy theorists.
Even after our merger with Andromeda, we might retain our spiral shape for trillions of years. You probably don’t think about it very often, but the Milky Way galaxy won’t remain […]
Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
“Think R2D2,” Walmart wrote in a press release. Others are thinking “layoffs.”
There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that’s winning now won’t win in the end. If you could measure the average distance […]
A new dinosaur species related to Tyrannosaurs found in Canada.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
At a very simple level, it’s nothing but physics. Here’s why you should care. It’s not very often that a physics problem becomes a politicized issue, but that’s exactly what’s happened […]
The dream of an ‘Earth-like’ planet showcases our astrobiological ignorance. Over the past decade, our understanding of what planets exist around stars other than our own has exploded. The number […]
Despite all the challenges, Hubble has vindicated this discovery. Practically everywhere we look in the Universe, the large-scale objects that we see — small galaxies, large galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, […]
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet’s trove of unseemly content.
For too long, we’ve treated racism as a personality trait or a vague systemic menace rather than the result of policies and ideas created deliberately to benefit some groups at the expense of others. As a result, too many anti-racist efforts have collapsed into name-calling sessions, failing to achieve their goals. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist, sees a better way.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Innovative drugs are sometimes held up due to old-fashioned human biases.
The renowned magician recently joined Big Think CEO and cofounder Victoria Brown for a wide-ranging discussion.
We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.
Taking preventive measures and investing in positive mental health can impact productivity, company culture, and staff turnover.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic caused colleges to start teaching remotely, students balked at the idea of paying full tuition for online learning. It’s not hard to understand why. […]
The history of the Universe is forever imprinted in our own bodies. We can learn a lot about the history of the Universe just by looking at each of our own […]