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"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." […]
America has been undergoing a marijuana revolution of sorts. Marijuana is legal for medical use in 20 states and the District of Columbia, and now it’s sold in Colorado and […]
Good news for mice! Bad news for cobras. Researchers have engineered the strongest constructed muscle yet--ten times stronger than all previous attempts, and successfully implanted it into mice. It's so […]
AMC just released a trailer for its Silicon Valley drama series "Halt and Catch Fire." There's just something about geeks and hackers yelling at each other as though they're in […]
Working at Big Think, we're often asked, what's it like to interview Dr. Michio Kaku? The Big Think expert and author of The Future of the Mind is a rock […]
Of all the galaxies in our local supercluster, one outweighs them all. “I recognize my limits, but when I look around I realise I am not living, exactly, in a world […]
America has been undergoing a marijuana revolution of sorts. Marijuana is legal for medical use in 20 states and the District of Columbia, and now it’s sold in Colorado and […]
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Wendy Kopp, the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, and the founder and chair of Teach For America, says that classrooms need to use data to help students achieve […]
Einstein's quantum description of light earned him a Nobel prize, but he's mostly remembered for relativity. At their core, special and general relativity are, in fact, not relative. Explore Einstein's […]
All maps tell lies, but this one does it better than most.
“Education must be the only sector that hasn’t already been completely revolutionized by technology,” says Wendy Kopp, the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, and the founder and chair […]
Around 220 million light years away, the spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 speeds through the galaxy cluster Abell 3627. Hubble captured an image of the distant galaxy. As ESO 137-001 travels, its gas […]
"We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us." - Neil deGrasse […]
A regional division of the NLRB has ruled that Northwestern’s football players are more like employees of the university than students. So they are entitled to unionize and bargain collectively […]
The way they form is amazing enough, but then the time-lapse video left me speechless. “Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There […]
The physics of accurately knowing just how much time has passed. “While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any […]
Science and poetry both depend on metaphor. Science typically uses at least two. The first is usually Pythagoras’s astonishingly fruitful, but also limiting, “all things are numbers.” The second shapes […]
More than 20 people are dead and at least 90 are missing and presumed dead after a huge hillside of mud and clay and rock collapsed and slid down into […]
It's a delicious treat to watch godless libertarians rise to the defense of Protestant evangelicals this week.
In my debut column last week, I discussed how the financing landscape is radically changing through crowdfunding. Naturally, everyone is catching onto this phenomenon, including celebrities. But now that Zach […]