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The iconic physicist warns that we’d better find another planet in the next 100 years, or humanity is screwed.
What does it mean for spooky action at a distance if distances aren’t real, but just the way they look to us?
A physicist demonstrates how life may be a predictable product of thermodynamics.
On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think Podcast, Ethan Hawke and host Jason Gots discuss fatherhood, perpetual warfare, and the daily struggle between light and dark within every person.
Above all, we should proceed with the assumption that there is no such thing as an unbiased information source, period.
Scientists discover unusual galaxies that raise questions about Einstein’s theory of gravity and the existence of dark matter.
But there are resources, tips, and telltale signs to keep you from being duped. “Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as […]
Are we about to make a breakthrough to go beyond black holes? Here’s what it means if we do! “It’s becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only […]
Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company’s plans to colonize space.
The strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that kept the world safe for over 50 years may no longer matter in the modern world.
Nobel Laureate and Columbia professor Dr Eric Kandel discusses the nature of good and evil via the Trump candidacy, and his own devastating childhood experiences in Austria.
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With off-the-shelf materials and a little dry ice, you can discover particles that wouldn’t exist unless relativity were real. “The experiments that we will do with the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] […]
The necessity yet utter inconvenience of wearing and carrying around a bike helmet has always posed an interesting design challenge – creating a helmet that is light, compact and ideally […]
Tim Ferriss shares a bounty of strategies to help you really and truly overcome procrastination. And if it doesn’t do it for you, hey, at least you just killed 10 minutes.
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Why the 2017 Nobel Prize isn’t the end, but the start, of something really, really big. “Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.” –Jonathan […]
Welcome to Star Trek: Discovery. From science to ethics and more, how does the new series’ debut stack up? “If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a […]
Author, speaker, and public intellectual Richard Dawkins is a first-class debater on subjects as grand and reaching as the very existence (or lack thereof) of a master creator. But he’s got a simple yet highly effective technique to win people over to see his point of view. Find out what it is right here.
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the nature of time and the conundrums of time travel in a recent interview.
Over 2 billion people worldwide eat insects, such as crickets. Crickets are easy to harvest, high in protein, and nutrient rich. In an age of growing environmental awareness about the significant resources needed for raising livestock, crickets would seemingly be the food of the future. Why aren’t they on your dinner plate?
This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri’s conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.
Could we use computers to translate animal communication into human language? If so, what would we learn? And might it unlock a new understanding of existence and our place in the cosmos?
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Think the periodic table is complicated? Now learn how each element in it was created. “It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order […]
On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think Podcast, Krista Tippett, host of the radio show and podcast On Being, and host Jason Gots discuss the things that are most difficult and most necessary to talk about––the divides across which our words and our courage fail.
The deep dive into the mirror Universe, and the ethics of how we deal with purity and diversity, is just getting started. Life in the mirror Universe isn’t easy for anyone. […]
Tony, Emmy, and Golden-Globe award winning actress and author Mary-Louise Parker on Think Again – a Big Think Podcast, discussing parenthood, Bob Marley, and the limits of empathy.
Psychologists sort human personalities into five traits, each of which you can score high or low on.
People possessing openness can take diverging visual stimuli and combine them in a special way.
The best way to solve a big problem is to think small.
A new study discovers why whales grew to be the largest animals on our planet.