Search
Latest Articles
The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.
History shows that both those who do not learn history and those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it.
Doctors offered to turn off Stephen Hawking's life support machine in 1985, the British cosmologist revealed in a new documentary to be released along with his memoirs this fall.
The weather has been all over the place this year, with record highs and lows recorded in hundreds of different locations around the globe. So how exactly are temperatures changing globally?
The stem cell scientist Sir Ian Wilmut who cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996 has outlined how to resurrect a woolly mammoth by using cells from frozen carcasses.
"We may soon be rescuing people from death's clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died."
Accelerating technological change will define how efficiently we use energy, not how much. The accelerating change of technology we use commercially and personally is dramatically increasing the global demand for […]
Three thoughts on what the pope said the other day about gay people.
“The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name,” wrote historian Daniel J. Boorstin in his 1962 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America. The […]
At this week's Black Hat conference, security expert Fran Brown plans to demonstrate technology that can clone any passive RFID badge within a three-foot radius.
What's the best way to hold people accountable for their actions on the job? Measure the results (though that might encourage them to break a few rules, or even a […]
Influenced by a study showing that "range anxiety" was a big barrier between consumers and electric cars, the German automaker decided to make sharing of a traditional car available for long trips.
Can we fake it until we make it?
Despite the growing number of mobile payment technologies available, and the uptick in users in both Europe and Japan, many Americans are either unaware of them or concerned about their security.
Watch these girls comment on the perversity of the sexuality in marketing to young girls.
Partners HealthCare's new system may be one of the first in the nation to wirelessly populate official electronic health records with data collected by an increasing number of remote home monitoring devices.
Having the skills, the enthusiasm and the right drive is necessary in order to succeed. But as Bjarke Ingels Group experienced, it takes more than that. Without a good business minded CEO, the company will be closer to bankruptcy than success.
Veebot's automated system can correctly locate a suitable vein about 83 percent of the time, which makes it about as good as a human technician. The company is shooting for 90 percent accuracy before beginning clinical trials.
I think one of the keys to success is being quick to respond and that’s been a truism in business for a very, very long time. Opportunities don’t last forever […]
Soon, the Moscow metro police will be able to track individuals' movement through the city's ornate underground transport system by reading data from the cellular phones.