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Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
The amygdala can hijack your brain’s response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.
In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can’t we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.
“Less is better” is not a catchy marketing slogan, but one doctor who didn’t shower for five years thinks there’s a lot of truth to it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
Time is relative, not absolute, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. Your head and feet, therefore, don’t age at the same rate.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
Recent geopolitical turning points, like Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, were chapters in a story that extends decades back in world history.
Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
Has the “age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
Much of the discussion began during the pandemic, which really brought mental health issues to the forefront.
Immune booster or pure torture?
His $1 million ARC Prize competition is designed to put us on the right path.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What’s puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
How can you “touch the Sun” if you’ve always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun’s photosphere?
Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.”