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One of cosmic inflation’s cofounders came out against it, calling it not even science. But it is… and so much more. “There’s no obvious reason to assume that the very same […]
The ‘big discovery’ is nothing of the kind. We need a new planet-finding mission to probe the next frontier. Last week, NASA dropped a bombshell that it’s Kepler mission — the greatest […]
Predatory journals are so busy scamming scholars that seven big ones appointed a dog posing as a PhD to review submissions.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Fiction writer and environmentalist T.C. Boyle on the crazy, contested world we might not be able to inhabit much longer, and what we’ll do after that.
Astronomers have gotten good at dating stars. But this one has them stumped.
The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.
Neuroscientists are now starting to put TMR to work.
They’re 3 billion light years away, but their collision can lead to answers to really big questions.
Look who went and got himself a talk show. Big Think’s regular contributor Bill Nye will be on Netflix in 2017!
What does it really mean when something is “Dickensian”? Or “Kafkaesque”? Sometimes these words are overused to the point where they lose their meaning. Here’s how these and 6 other words got their origin.
Scientists work out methods for finding the difference between the magnetic moments of protons and antiprotons and see that they’re the same.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. The voluble Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek on why tolerance is the wrong way to deal with terrorism, the refugee crisis, and all the other problems we face.
A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.
You’ve heard of the big Greek philosophers. Now, read about the ones who inspired them.
Astrobiologists took a novel view and used evolutionary processes as their guide.
A Duke University study that found over 40 percent of our actions aren’t actually decisions, but habits. Here’s how to build good ones.
A.I. will bring a series of social and financial changes, and it will force us to confront a problem we’ve been avoiding for much too long, says Joscha Bach.
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If your favorite theory made the list, you might want to consider a new favorite to bet on. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great […]
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, novelist Ian McEwan and host Jason Gots discuss Hamlet, moral quandaries, and how to set boundaries in a world that wants to pull you in every direction.
It happens every once in a great while: the ‘Kids’ come down from their lofty peak and tell the elders what they think is “cool.”
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, Nobel Laureate neuroscientist Eric Kandel and host Jason Gots discuss abstract art, memory, identity, and the nature of evil.
Watch what it might look like to travel from the sun to Jupiter at the speed of light.
Has Google become our modern confessional? Former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz discusses how Google knows you better than your friends and family–maybe even yourself. He is the author of Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.
A new study challenges what we understand about the workings of time.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. Historian and New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb on interspecies ethics, the limits of civil discourse, and mathematical symmetry as the defining principle of the universe.
Bottoms ups! A Southern Calfornia brewery is taking its beer from toilet to tap. San Diego’s Stone Brewing has started making Full Circle Pale Ale using treated sewage water and recently held a tasting. While Bill Gates has shown that drinking “poop water” is perfectly fine, will consumers chug down this beer?
A blacker-than-black coating reveals how our senses totally fail without input they understand.
Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week’s episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, celebrity chef Alton Brown and host Jason Gots talk about fire, their mutual childhood lust for the Betty Crocker Easy-Bake Oven and how everything worth doing might get you killed.
Right and wrong has never been so gray in the Star Trek Universe. Imagine you’re in a fight with an enemy, and the fight itself isn’t fair. You might have […]