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Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
“I know what you’re thinking” can sound kind or creepy — depending on who’s saying it.
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Before Constantine received his history-defining vision, a pagan Sun god paved the way for Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into the Eternal City.
“Dune: Part One” screenwriter Eric Roth spoke with Big Think about the challenges of bringing Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic to the big screen.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.
Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.