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The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.

HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).

AI has become a black box in more ways than one.

If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we’ll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.

The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.

From action shots to locking down the perfect lighting, you can master the art of photography with these online lessons.

Price gouging is prohibited in 34 US states and Washington D.C. But two scholars ask whether that’s the way it should be.

Combining various mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can have numerous health benefits, according to new research.

In any sufficiently large protest, police officers may “kettle” protesters. Critics say it violates human rights, while advocates claim its one of the few safe tools available to police during a protest.

Transport yourself to other worlds and states of mind.

First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.

Climate change stands to take the one thing away from us that might make it easier to deal with, cheap beer.

The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.

This parody documentary skewers both the skeptic and the superstitious, and accurately shows what issues skeptics face.

Novels open us to the nuances of being human.

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A former Vatican ambassador has accused Pope Francis and other church leaders of wittingly covering up sexual abuse, an unprecedented accusation that highlights escalating tensions within the Catholic Church.

President Trump has placed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.’s closest allies. His justification for this policy is national security and the protection of America’s businesses. But history has shown us that trade wars don’t put America first.

Asteroid strikes and supervolcano eruptions may yet have patterns to them, but the extinctions we’ve experienced appear to have occurred at random. Throughout the history of life on Earth, there have […]

DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.

Another week, another chance to stick our comment-boots on and wade out deep into the Big Think Facebook page to cherry pick our favorites for the week. 

Is it good science in practice or just a smokescreen?   

The Los Angeles Hope Festival is the celebration and examination of hope and optimism, two paradigmatic mental attitudes that play a vital and influential role in our daily lives. 

Respectability politics makes us comfortable. It hoists us up on our high horses, and takes away our responsibility for the way we treat other people. It puts the burden on the marginalized person to adjust their appearance or behavior to earn respect from the majority.

Sotheby’s will auction off 380 pieces from Bowie’s collection later this year. The collection is “eclectic, unscripted, [and] understated,” according to Sotheby’s European chairman Oliver Barker.

How we’ll directly take pictures of Earth-like planets in the future! “We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood […]

If all the rational arguments argue against American gun culture, then the irrational (sometimes creepy) ones must be to blame for our fatal firearms attraction.