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Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.
Earth, the only rocky planet with a large, massive satellite, is greatly affected by the Moon. Destroying it would cause 7 major changes.
Often viewed as a purely theoretical, calculational tool only, direct observation of the Lamb Shift proved their very real existence.
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
Australia’s AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion.
All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang long ago. The Universe was never empty, not even before that.
Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
AI-powered voice technology is poised to revolutionize the ways we do business.
What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the “3 Rs”: rage, resentment, and revenge.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.