Surprising Science — March 25, 2014

How Superconducting Levitation Works

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Superconducting levitation may be omnipresent one day and revolutionize transportation. This video explains how it works and shows you the possibilities of this amazing technology:

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Starts With A Bang

The importance of caring about the truth

You don’t need to be a scientist or a philosopher for facts, reality, and the truth to matter. The alternative is simply known as bullshit.

Starts With A Bang

Science’s best answer to “where did the Universe come from?”

Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

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Business

The Morissa Schwartz interview: AI and the new media landscape

The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Couldn’t COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese lab?

In theory, scientists could’ve produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn’t happen.

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The Future

Kevin Kelly points a new way forward into the Age of AI

One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what’s possible with AI in the next 25 years.

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