“Here I want to remind all of you of a fact that the U.S. publicly defines outer space as a new battlefield,” a Chinese foreign minister said.
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The Flynn effect shows people have gotten smarter, but some research claims those IQ gains are regressing. Can both be right?
Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”
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Political activism may get people invested in politics, and affect urgently needed change, but it comes at the expense of tolerance and healthy democratic norms.
Daniel Bryan is a “heel” who might sincerely believe in some of the things his persona is known to say.
Sometimes, chemistry can be more important for color than even physics. All across the world, volcanic eruptions remind us of the destructive power residing beneath Earth’s surface. You might be used […]
Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.
Americans lost $116.9 billion gambling in 2016.
The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.
Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors. What’s next?
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Controversial map names CEOs of 100 companies producing 71 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
A parlor-trick mystery explained at last.
Building Big Think from little more than an idea to 30 million monthly visitors, co-founder Victoria Rachel Montgomery-Brown knows something about being an entrepreneur. Her idea, together with co-founder Peter […]
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How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
The nature of our quantum Universe is puzzling, counterintuitive, and testable. The results don’t lie. Although our intuition is an incredibly useful tool for navigating daily life, developed from a lifetime […]
The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world’s “open medical intelligence” system.
Throughout history, anarchists have been responsible for bombings and assassinations, including some very recent ones.
The barrier to solar energy has always been storage. Now, bottled sunshine has a shelf-life of 18 years.
An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.
The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, was the nail in the coffin of a Newtonian Universe. On May 29, 1919, the world changed forever. For hundreds of years, Isaac […]
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration likely violated the reporter’s Fifth Amendment rights when it stripped his press credentials earlier this month.
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
This is doubly worrisome on the heels of the recent UN climate change report, which gave humanity an urgent deadline to cut carbon emissions: just 12 years.
Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.
The renowned author plans to publish a follow-up to the 1985 bestseller in September 2019.
The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.