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Religion is said to either encourage thinking or at least “encourage” science in some nebulous ways. 

The image above is a composite of images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looking down on Saturn and its rings. 

If you’re not in Europe, Africa or the Middle East, don’t worry, you can still watch a live webcast of the penumbral lunar eclipse via the Slooh space camera starting […]

We as a culture have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even though we don’t know what these words are and what they mean.

What is preventing us from formulating the optimum drug policy? 

Can more competition help government services improve?

For most of our history, humans have been extraordinarily ignorant about sex. Today, there is still much about sex that we either don’t know or don’t agree on. 

Steve Case points out that some things, like media, have changed a lot since the first Internet revolution. And yet, there are many, many more industries that have not changed all that much, and are ripe for disruption.

“It never hurts to dream impossible dreams,” Booker told Big Think, as “you never know they might come true.” So if he could have one superpower it would be “control over time,” Booker said. “Because that’s really my only enemy. 

This past summer the British government indicated it would be moving forward to finally grant a pardon for Alan Turing, but not for the 49,000 other gay men, including Oscar Wilde, who were convicted under the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act.

How do you lift a poem out of history and “into your own history”?

The Spanish word berrinches means “tantrum,” but it also refers to “spoiled little rich kids, blind to their privilege and the effects of their misbehavior.”

That respect that people had for each other’s office, Chris Matthews says, is completely missing today. It doesn’t have to be that way. 

Why are people sometimes more emboldened in their beliefs after being exposed to corrective information?

Frances Townsend, a former Homeland Security Advisor to United States under George W. Bush, brought rosary beads to Saudi Arabia, not realizing that she was committing a crime punishable by death. 

Greg Lemond is the first (and only) American to have won the Tour de France, a feat he accomplished three times, and accomplished cleanly. 

Why are humans so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

The image above shows the convergence of an anti-GMO protest outside Central Park and the overflow of superheroes and superhero lookalikes in New York City. 

Leadership is a team sport. If you want to build anything of significance, you need to engage others.

Jeff Grant tells the powerful story of his incarceration in Federal prison for a white-collar crime.

Americans spend half the amount of time cooking than we did in the 1960s, and we have also defined “cooking” down to activities such as getting a pizza out of a box.

The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup. 

Why is the Bible so obsessed with hygiene?

On March 16, 2880, 1950 DA will come very close to Earth – so close, in fact, that a collision cannot be ruled out. 

Disgust with Washington has damaged both the Republican and Democratic parties and pushed support for a viable third party to an all-time high, according to a new Gallup poll.

At the time of his arrest in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted cyber criminal in the United States. The arrest marked the end of an intense two and a half year electronic manhunt, a game of cat and mouse that Mitnick likens to a video game. 

M-Blocks are small robotic cubes that have no exterior moving parts. But they are able to propel themselves, climb on top of each other and form all kinds of shapes. 

Bill Nye is hosting “Why With Nye,” an eight-part YouTube series focusing on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter.

Women whose avatars are dressed provocatively come to think of themselves more as objects than as people.

To understand why the global recovery remains sluggish, and while social unrest abounds in many countries, look no further than the workplace.