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Technology has helped us prolong life indefinitely. But that brings with it a lot of ethical questions, and questionable practices when it comes to brain death.
Calculus was invented by Isaac Newton in the middle of the 17th century, so does a historically contingent event hold true everywhere in the universe, even near black holes? Bill Nye the Science Guy replies to a Big Think fan.
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Ex-POWs told researchers about some amazing new mental skills they’d acquired in solitary.
What’s the probability the moon landing was all one big hoax? David Robert Grimes has done the math, applying it to some of the most controversial conspiracy theories.
A new study confirms that zapping your brain with electricity might increase the ability for creative thought.
New research produces surprising results about which animals are the smartest.
Feeling IS fast thinking. And emotions aren’t always guilty of being irrational. Whenever pondering minds, always bear in mind Daniel Kahneman’s teachings on the brain.
Science’s picture of the world is being updated. It’s adding algomorphic thinking to its palette.
As songwriters, The Beatles had a special trick for making lyrics resonate: They leveraged the power of personal pronouns to connect with listeners.
A learning collaboration between Pixar and Khan Academy helps aspiring animators familiarize themselves with the basics of the craft. The free course is called Pixar in A Box.
Where do our best ideas come from? As it turns out, science says there are a number of ways to help prime the brain for divergent thinking. If you’ve hit a creative roadblock, here are a few ways to get the ideas flowing.
Your brain is the neural battleground of science and religion, with religious people and atheists differing in intelligence and empathy. Can the two extremes reconcile?
The psychologist who fundamentally changed how teachers talk to children warns her message has been lost in translation.
Everything depends on it, and yet we don’t know it as well as we’d like! “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have […]
The answer is larger than you might think, and applies in some shocking ways! “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way […]
All text involves translation. Either from reality or imagination into language, or between languages. Can the language that perfectly fit physics translate every pattern under the sun? Well, nothing in physics chooses…
Tuition costs have risen faster than any other set of costs in the USA. There’s a way to combat it, but we have to be brave. “When we make college more […]
The barrier to understanding math may be more psychological than we thought.
Many parents in China seek to teach their kids valuable coding skills, and they’re not the only ones.
There are lots of wrong reasons out there, but only one that matters. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in […]
Mathematicians believe Americans are letting their anxieties over math get the better of them.
Set self-driving car to “kill.”
Some were kicked out of their Solar Systems at the beginning, while others never had a parent star at all. “The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and […]
And how close does the farthest one we’ve ever found so far come to it? “Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics […]
Where do we learn what matters? Are new forces crowding out the old sources of stories that shape us?
Biases and flaws are like foreheads — it’s easier to see others’ than your own. So our most cherished beliefs should be tested by rigorous bias-balancing processes.
Algorithms are in charge of hiring people and data collection. You should have the right to know what they’re saying about you.
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