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“I believe that in the future, there will be a Francis Bacon of AI art,” Saltz tells Big Think. “We just haven’t seen that artist yet.”
Branding isn’t buzz — we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.
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Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.
The James Webb Space Telescope viewed Neptune, our Solar System’s final planet, for the first time. Here’s what we saw, and what it means.
A new generation of leaders is forging a path for 21st-century capitalism that’s both profitable and socially responsible.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
It’s rare that one single image packs so much beauty and science simultaneously. This Hubble view of a nearby star-forming region has both.
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don’t consciously realize it.
Like witchcraft, “racecraft” refers to a kind of magical thinking — one that treats race as if it were scientifically meaningful.
What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
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Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves.
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You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.