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Until the use of prison labor is banned, many stakeholders will be incentivized to prevent felons from being rehabilitated.
The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.
No matter how long you wait, the matter that makes you probably won’t end up inside a black hole. It’s one of the most pervasive ideas out there: if you wait […]
The Response Act calls on schools to increase monitoring of students’ online activity.
Will Storr has written a masterful guide to writing with “The Science of Storytelling.”
The line-in-the-sand was drawn in sharpie, and the time to declare ‘no more’ is now. When you have a question about the physical world, there are a lot of different approaches […]
Fast fashion has a devastating impact on the environment. Here’s what you need to know before heading to Zara this holiday season.
Artist, “bird noticer”, and concerned citizen of the digital state of the world Jenny Odell looks at many different ways of resisting the attention economy, sinking into the reality of our lives, and finding solidarity and agency with others.
By the time John Paul DeJoria founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, he’d already sold encyclopedias on commission door-to-door, and he understood the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. […]
Not only will this help diagnose schizophrenia earlier, but it also points to a possible cause of schizophrenia.
Ferrets are not humans, but this new drug is showing promise.
It’s not a question we know enough to know the answer to, but to dismiss the possibility is scientifically baseless. There’s one question that most of us ask at some […]
The laws of physics are not time-reversal invariant. Here’s how we know. No matter when, where, or what you are in the Universe, you experience time in only one direction: forwards. […]
A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.
The Russian-built FEDOR was launched on a mission to help ISS astronauts.
If you traveled in a straight line for far enough, would you come back to where you started? If you were to set out on a journey from anywhere on Earth’s […]
Giving our solar system a “slap in the face.”
The possibility of an easy, non-invasive detection method arises.
How does the largest welfare program imaginable have libertarian supporters?
An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Your next payday could be all digital.
It should be just as sticky (or non-sticky) as normal matter. Here’s how we know. Not only here on Earth, but everywhere in the Universe that we look, we find structures […]
Codetermination is one of the most interesting ideas you’ve never heard of.
Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.
Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.
The most popular books of the past 125 years, and where to get them.
The Doomsday clock has never been closer to midnight.
Animal law is the fastest growing legal discipline.
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]