Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
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Many of his criticisms ring true today.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”
What was so great about Einstein anyway? A group of experts weigh in.
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Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
Famously, it took Edison over one thousand attempts to successfully create the lightbulb.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
In hell, we assume a position of moral superiority, looking down over the sinners and the poor decisions that led them to this wretched place. In heaven, Dante is looking down upon us.
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.
Living like a genius and finding ways to “optimize” sleep is not necessarily good for your health. Here’s why.
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Tips from neuroscience and psychology can make you an expert thinker.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Join Big Think’s co-founder and president Peter Hopkins in conversation with Professor Linda Hill on what it takes to be a boss during COVID-19.
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Problem-solving skills are in demand. Every job posting lists them under must-have qualifications, and every job candidate claims to possess them, par excellence. Young entrepreneurs make solutions to social and […]
Researchers make the case for “deep evidential regression.”
How the German political philosopher called out Henry David Thoreau on civil disobedience.
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
Big Think has launched a line of apparel and goods that celebrate the life and work of four geniuses.
Nihilism is not a choice or intellectual commitment, but a feeling that simply arrives.
Recent research shows that brain teasers don’t make you smarter and don’t belong in job interviews because they don’t reflect real-world problems.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
A strange object found in the desert has prompted worldwide speculation.
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