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Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.

Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.

These were the stories you clicked on the most.

Quibi was so focused on foresight they forgot the basics of hindsight.

Thinking of a number between one and ten? Here’s how predictable human responses create the illusion of telepathy.

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?

A study on the “moral circles” of liberals and conservatives gets drafted into the culture wars — with mixed results.

For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.

Intrinsic motivation cannot be imposed on a team — but you can provide the right culture for it to flourish.

Is mindfulness really the panacea it’s touted to be, or are we glossing over some fundamental flaws?

Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.

ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.

Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.

“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.

How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.

If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”

Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.

If not treated, the disorder drastically increases one’s risk of death.

Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.

A Cambridge-based team claims to find molecules on an exoplanet that are only produced by life on Earth. Don’t fall for the unfounded hype.

Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.

Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.

In “Raising AI,” De Kai argues that today’s AIs are already more like us than we think they are.

Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.

His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.

When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.

In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have existed. Why aren’t they equal today?