The fellowship’s journey through Middle-earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
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Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
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Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
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Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.
Take a closer look before judging a book by its title.
From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen.
An atheist’s case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
The DART mission tested whether it’s possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
LHC scientists just showed that spooky quantum entanglement applies to the highest-energy, shortest-lived particles of all: top quarks.