If you have not found a partner or if you’re not sure if you want to compromise or you want to live with someone else for the rest of your life there’s just a lot of hope for you out there from the science.
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Sadly, the only thing that you can consistently say about someone who holds a high school diploma, especially one issued in the last few years, is that they come from a family stable enough to get them to school most days for 12 years.
Early humans lived in a world that one evolutionary geneticist compared to the fantasy world of Lord of the Rings. Not only were there many hominid populations, but these populations interbred, contributing to the genetic diversity of modern humans.
In the twentieth century like-mindedness was an asset. But today the challenges that face society cannot be solved by one kind of intelligence.
You need to make a decision about how much thought and anxiety you’re going to invest in an attempt to prolong your life, which may be thwarted by the normal contingencies of human history.
Francis Collins: we need to be prepared at any moment to defend the choices we’ve made as having had the best chance of benefiting real people out there who are counting on the NIH to use their money wisely.
So as semiconductor manufacturing has moved offshore, the number of people in this country who actually know how to operate those tools, who have the tacit knowledge has declined as well.
Our understanding of neutrinos might help us solve one of the greatest questions of all time – why matter won out over antimatter, or why we are here.
We can make a choice to say “I love this technology, this extension of my soul, of my being and I don’t need to be on all the time.”
Bringing Cosmos back is one of the best things to happen to television since Walter White decided to break bad. The series was rebooted by FOX with the help of […]
Someone is always getting killed. Someone is always getting assassinated. But there are also good things that happen in Afghanistan.
Bridges do collapse. Products do blow up. Drugs that save millions of people’s lives often in the development stage kill people. This is something that you have to be very honest about.
On the shortest night of the year, a galactic giant — the faintest Messier object of all — towers overhead. “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. […]
TAIPEI/TOKYO – What is this East-Asian obsession with blades and stabbings that has perverted these otherwise harmonious quarters of Confucian legacy? The knife seems to be the preferred device of […]
3D printing offers great potential for mass customization and manufacturing tools.
No snark, no sarcasm, no judgement, just the genuine, honest answers to 22 creationist messages. “In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; […]
William Butler Yates wrote, “There is no singing school, but studying monuments of its own magnificence.”
Sometimes we read meaning into patterns even when there is not inherent meaning. Yet it’s possible to use rationality and to use things that you know about the world to question your intuitions and to second guess them.
One of the markers of a fast growing company is you constantly have to reevaluate everything.
Joel Primack: Just as the universe ended its exponential expansion rather abruptly, we’re going to have to do the same thing.
They’re one of the great undetected predictions of dark matter, and we may have just found the first ones! “Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest […]
The Spanish word berrinches means “tantrum,” but it also refers to “spoiled little rich kids, blind to their privilege and the effects of their misbehavior.”
We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.
One Big Think editor has taken a vacation from idea-hunting (for the moment at least), and nonetheless stumbled upon a big idea, pictured above. Can you name the big idea?
Executives will talk about the importance of passion but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
Ian Fleming’s character is at high risk for sexual dysfunction, along with a long assortment of alcohol-related diseases that will eventually kill him at the age of 56.
Being funny, being sexy or expressing a loving sentiment – that’s the cutting edge of human intelligence.
Affective computing is really about instruments helping us understand what a person is feeling or what’s going on inside of a person and in a very un-invasive way.
Responding to U.S. strikes and personnel evacuations in Yemen, Big Think Waq al-Waq blogger Gregory Johnsen asks a simple question: why?
Dear Biosphere, While you are well aware of the physical inputs we humans inject into your system, you may be blind to the human politics and polling and psychology about […]