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A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
Third on the Big Think 2019 countdown reveals this is what the world will be like if we do not act on climate change.
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Augustine’s theology came to define Christianity, but there was a rival theology.
If everyone just showed up to their appointments, $150 billion of waste could be averted.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
Join Big Think Live for a discussion with human rights advocate and best-selling author Shaka Senghor. Learn how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the prison population and why it has […]
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Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Taking the fourth spot on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
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This wide-ranging, 13-course electrical engineering training is your next power move.
How can you use new tools, techniques, and technologies to rethink your personal productivity and enhance your future self?
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In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
When someone is lying to you personally, you may be able to see what they’re doing.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
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From novels to movies and beyond, this 11-course bundle will jumpstart your writing career.
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
You’ll never have to pay for an image again.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
We love a good heist movie, but our favorite part is not the caper. It’s building the team. The brilliant thief—just out of jail to do one more job, he […]
When we limit the clash of ideas, we ultimately hinder progress for the entire society.
Their ear structures were not that different from ours.
A retraction regarding a May 6, 2019 article entitled “Are these 100 people killing the planet?”
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
How do we make sense of an inflection point as we’re living it? How do we build more resilience into ourselves and our systems moving forward? In this interactive session, […]
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