It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way […]
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Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.
It’s just the current cycle that involves opiates, but methamphetamine, cocaine, and others have caused the trajectory of overdoses to head the same direction
A one-on-one conversation is a valuable opportunity to connect with someone and to benefit from what they have to say. Unfortunately, these chats tend to happen in the middle of […]
If spacetime is like a fabric, and mass bends it, what flattens it back out again? Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That’s […]
After speaking with the world’s “top business leaders”, President Donald Trump has asked the SEC to study the potential impacts of removing rules that require companies to file reports with the agency every three months.
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 20 brand new videos! How does an astronaut bridge cultural divide? This month, take new perspectives on the interesting world we work […]
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
Silicon Valley might just be missing the most important aspect of being human: the ability to feel.
The ices and rock aren’t green, and neither are the tails. So where does a comet’s green color come from? Every so often, with extreme regularity, comets will plunge from beyond […]
Drinking home alone in your underwear just might be what you need to be as relaxed as the Finnish.
By 2020, China plans to assign each of its 1.4 billion citizens a “social credit score” that could determine what certain people are allowed to do.
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
Sales of drones are clocking in around $200 million and doubling each year. Which means there’s a lot of testing to be done.
Smart connected devices finding their way into million of’ homes are being taken over by domestic abusers, allowing them to invade and disrupt victims’ lives in a new, terrifying way
A balanced discussion of the realities, the mythologies, and the concerns surrounding cutting-edge brain research.
Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These nanorobots are the size of a human cell and they could flow through intestines or pipelines to detect problems.
In his new book, The Consciousness Instinct, Michael Gazzaniga does a deep dive into the process of consciousness.
Global warming, the MMR vaccine, UFOs, and more are in the spotlight so far. But will it work?
Imagine looking at one saturated pixel for years on end, and somehow learning what worlds live around it. That’s what science is for! When you think of what’s out there in […]
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
A new report from Bloomberg describes how Chinese subcontractors secretly inserted microchips into servers that wound up in data centers used by nearly 30 American companies.
The cosmic story of us wasn’t inevitable, but the culmination of many chance events. By the time our planet was four billion years old, the rise of large plants and animals […]
There’s no escaping its vast power and utility for the human enterprise. Stories, great tales, and songs have all been written about the all-mighty dollar. Here’s 10 documentaries that we think you’ll enjoy.
Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy… and a frightening new world.
People in the West are constantly encouraged to sleep less and accomplish more. But the science behind sleep deprivation shows why that’s a terrible idea.
Two independent techniques give precise but incompatible answers. Here’s how to resolve it. If you didn’t know anything about the Universe beyond our own galaxy, there are two different pathways you […]