A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
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This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
"If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident."
The authors call it "wildly theoretical" — but let's take a look, anyway.
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
Most counties in the U.S. have only one local newspaper, often one that publishes weekly instead of daily.
Across the subterranean United States, not all rocks were created equally.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
Economics and religion help to explain the gap.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
London’s busiest airport seems to be rebounding well from the pandemic — but Istanbul has better prospects in the long run.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
Scientists don't understand why the correlation exists.
According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.
“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.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.