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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

This marks the first time someone from the Kim Jong-un family has traveled to South Korea.
Where does Valentine's Day come from? Let us introduce you to the festival of Lupercalia, a festival when naked young men and women ran around whipping one another with animal hides.
Cultural diversity is not only an enormous issue for organizations of all sizes—it’s an inevitable fact of life in our increasingly globalized economy. Companies can benefit greatly from the variety […]
If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean! When we look around at our world and Universe today, we talk and think […]
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Bringing virtual reality into the classroom boosts intellectual confidence and defeats the naysayer in your mind.
What explains our propensity to blame the victim, even in cases of sexual assault and rape? A true story of sexual crime in America reveals some key misunderstandings we may all hold. 
Environmental concerns have caused some to opt-out of reproduction, both to help the planet and to protect their would-be children.
Need more astronomical phenomena in your life? We've got you covered. 
Think the increase in revenue will influence some farmers to make the switch? 
Wild boars in the sewers of London. Augmented humans of the future. Jason's high school friend, celebrated children's author Jacob Sager Weinstein, on imaginary histories and possible futures. 
Today's launch of the Falcon Heavy is being streamed all over the Internet this afternoon
Amongst other reasons, because they don't mind planes.
Elegance, beauty, and mathematical precision makes for a compelling story and an exquisite model. But it doesn’t make it right. Scientific theories, at their best, are simple, straightforward, full of predictive […]
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Want to bet on yourself? Here's a lesson in embracing uncertainty from former World Series poker champion Annie Duke.
We should stop “celebrating” Valentines Day in elementary-school classrooms.
What if entanglement also occurs across time? Is there such a thing as temporal nonlocality?  
Dodge Ram has drawn the ire of social media after using audio clips of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech in a commercial that ran during Super Bowl LII.
Have you been feeling like democracy is in trouble lately? According to this report, you're right.