The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
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An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
We're more dependent on them than we realize.
Really puts the whole "don't give up until you're dead" thing to shame.
The benefits of actively playing chess are supported by numerous studies.
How Futurism gave us the word "robot," the movie Metropolis, and this map of the body as a factory.
Sports physiologist Dr. Allen Lim and expert chef Biju Thomas first joined forces at the 2008 Tour de France in an attempt to wean athletes off processed energy bars.
Some worry that the new American standard for mental illness diagnostics, the DSM-5, actively seeks to pathologize normal human behavior, making sanity as unachievable as being a supermodel.
This lecture on “diagnostic inflation” or the over-diagnosis or mental disorder by Allen J. Frances, the chair of the DSM-IV task force, is important. Watch it. Frances lays out absolutely […]
Aslan, C.S. Lewis’s lion, has meant many different things to many different readers at many different times. He means one thing to the scholar and another to the child. He […]
Big Think salutes 10 women who have made inroads in professions that have traditionally been the province of men.
Leonardo da Vinci didn’t invent the sfumato technique, which produced the “smoky” effects of masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa, but he may have perfected it. For centuries, art experts […]
President Theodore Roosevelt vetoed the idea.