If you think you have problems today, be glad you’re not moving at the speed of light. Special relativity, even though it’s over 100 years old, is still one of the […]
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The five stages of psychogenic death — aka, “give-up-itis.”
On September 27, 1972, scientists performed the first test of Bell’s inequality. God does play dice with the Universe, after all. One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive aspects of quantum […]
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 […]
When two black holes merge together, about 5% of their mass gets lost. Where does that information go? Do merging black holes lose information? They absolutely must, according to General […]
Haley, who’s at times been both a supporter and critic of the president, reportedly “shocked” White House officials by announcing the end of her two-year tenure as a U.N. ambassador.
A new study shows how bots and Russian trolls have been spreading misinformation and confusion on Twitter about vaccination in an apparent attempt to sow discord among Americans.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world’s largest glacier from melting.
Four out of every five American adults and children are not moving enough.
The lawsuit claims the administration violated the First Amendment when it revoked the press credentials of reporter Jim Acosta.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Luxembourg will offer the world’s first fare-free public transit system, but is there really such a thing as a free ride?
We often support ideas without knowing quite why. John Stuart Mill reminds us why capitalism can be great for us and why we should be wary of state power.
Despite little clinical evidence of efficacy, a growing number of parents are giving their children supplements that could prove dangerous.
A measles comeback is not the sort of return our children deserve.
Across the world, companies are experimenting with shorter workweeks — is it working?
Mapping your daily long john needs since 2011 (Canada only)
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.
The arts can help schools tackle the current mental health crisis among teenagers.
And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
At the beginning of July 2018, blockchain security firm CipherTrace reported that $731 million has been stolen from crypto exchanges this year alone.
Some games are just for fun, others are for thought provoking statements on life, the universe, and everything.
America isn’t immune to attempts to remove books from libraries and schools, here are ten frequent targets and why you ought to go check them out.
A groundbreaking new study shows that octopuses seemed to exhibit uncharacteristically social behavior when given MDMA, the psychedelic drug commonly known as ecstasy.
The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
We need religion not to tell us what to think but to help us feel: it has evolved to manage human emotions.
“We express no view on the soundness of the policy,” Justice Roberts wrote in the Trump v. Hawaii Supreme Court ruling.
Sticklers, pedants, and English teachers love to correct your grammar, but they can put their red pens down when it comes to these six folk errors.