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Human thinking is antiquated.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here’s the sober truth.
Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener’s safety.
Your whole body is part of the instrument.
Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
Caffeine does something, but it’s not clear exactly what.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.
Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.
In 2017, we detected gold being forged in a neutron star-neutron star merger. Now, in 2024, the amounts created simply don’t add up.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the “Codex Amiatinus,” a Latin translation of the Bible.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Life is governed by unspoken rules. How do you know you’re following them correctly?
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
Cosmic inflation is the state that preceded and set up the hot Big Bang. Here’s what the Universe was like during that time period.
The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
Old coal mines can be converted into “gravity batteries” by retrofitting them with equipment that raises and lowers giant piles of sand.
One newly discovered, ancient star has a composition unlike any other. Explaining its existence is already blowing astronomers’ minds.