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Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.
Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.
We spend much of our early years learning arithmetic and algebra. What’s the use?
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
All the latest titles from the experts at MIT.
A Nazi institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament that portrayed Jesus as an Aryan hero fighting Jewish people.
Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.
The Bomber Mafia nearly changed the world—and you’ve likely never heard of them.
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If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
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?
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
Why are rapture ideologies exploding?
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Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
Scans show similar activity to what occurs when you think about yourself.
The key? A computational flattening algorithm.
Technology of the future is shaped by the questions we ask and the ethical decisions we make today.
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In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.
How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.
The author of “Auroville: The City Made of Dreams” talks about the difficulties of establishing (and writing about) utopian societies.
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
She was walking down the forest path with a roll of white cloth in her hands. It was trailing behind her like a long veil. It was sweeping needles, leaves […]
From novels to movies and beyond, this 11-course bundle will jumpstart your writing career.
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here’s your reading list.
Join the lauded author of Range in conversation with best-selling author and poker pro Maria Konnikova!
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OpenStax reimagined textbooks and saved students $1 billion. Now is a moment to reimagine even more. How can education help students learn more, better, and faster?
Join New York Times best-selling author Maria Konnikova as she leads this special edition of Big Think Live.
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To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.
The visual languages of comics and graphic novels are great exercise for developing brains.