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Big Thinkby Marcelo Gleiser15 Sept 2021
The history of science could be written as a history of instrumentation. From particle accelerators and microscopes to fMRIs and telescopes, as instruments become more powerful, they act as reality...
Big Thinkby Tim Brinkhof15 Sept 2021
A popular joke among American students majoring in Slavic Studies is that you can pretty much sum up the entirety of Russian history by saying things have gone from “bad to worse.” It is a gross...
Big Thinkby Kevin Dickinson15 Sept 2021
- Mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry. - Research shows mindfulness can be an effective wellness practice, yet the effect sizes found in studies tend to be moderate.
Big Thinkby Tom Hartsfield15 Sept 2021
Apple has built a reputation as the “least evil” Big Tech giant when it comes to privacy. All these companies — Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon — collect our data and essentially spy on...
Big Thinkby Connor Bamford15 Sept 2021
Right now, there’s just one virus on everyone’s minds: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Big Thinkby Ethan Siegel15 Sept 2021
- The Einstein field equations appear very simple, but they encode a tremendous amount of complexity.
Big Thinkby Zachary Gillen14 Sept 2021
Imagine you’ve just sat down to watch your favorite TV show. You decide to snuggle in with your legs crisscrossed because you find it more comfortable that way.
Big Thinkby Tim Brinkhof14 Sept 2021
On the night of May 14, 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed the Dutch city of Rotterdam. When government administrators entered the streets to tally their losses the next morning, they learned that...
Big Thinkby Jonny Thomson14 Sept 2021
Nothing in life can be treated in isolation. Behind every idea, person, discovery, invention, or project is a hidden network of conditions that gave rise to it.
Big Thinkby Scotty Hendricks14 Sept 2021
Though Earth has only one (very special and precious) moon, the average planet in our solar system has 26 moons. (The range is from zero moons for Mercury and Venus to 82 moons for Saturn.)
Big Thinkby Ethan Siegel14 Sept 2021
Whenever we examine the universe in a scientific manner, there are a few assumptions that we take for granted as we go about our investigations.
Big Thinkby Robby Berman13 Sept 2021
There is a danger in attributing human-like motivations to animal behavior. We have no way, after all, of really knowing what is going on in a non-human’s mind.
Big Thinkby Jonny Thomson13 Sept 2021
No person is one thing. The kindest person you know has a tiny recess of cruelty in them. The happiest person you have ever met will have their depressive moments.
Big Thinkby Wendy Suzuki13 Sept 2021
The following is an excerpt from Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion. Copyright (C) 2021 by Wendy Suzuki, PhD. Reprinted with permission from Simon & Schuster.
Big Thinkby Kristin Houser12 Sept 2021
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Oxford scientists have proposed what they believe is a more sustainable approach to copper mining: digging deep wells under...
Big Thinkby Scotty Hendricks12 Sept 2021
Humans are so good at identifying faces that we see them in places where they do not exist, such as on the moon or Mars or in combinations of circles, line segments, and dots.
Big Thinkby Big Think12 Sept 2021
BEAU LOTTO: ALVA NOË However paradoxical it sounds, if we think of what is visible as just what projects to the eyes, we see much more than is visible. Let me give you an example.
Big Thinkby Steven D. Miller12 Sept 2021
For centuries, sailors have been reporting strange encounters like the one below. “The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow.
Big Thinkby Kristin Houser11 Sept 2021
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. When Sophia the robot debuted in 2016, she was one of a kind.
Big Thinkby Alex Berezow11 Sept 2021
As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack approached, I was disappointed to see how negative the media coverage is.
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